Lead QA Engineer: Trading Platform & FIX Reliability

Cboe Global Markets, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 159,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid time off & parental leave

Disability coverage

Tuition assistance & education

Lunch & snacks in office

Charitable giving match

Mental wellbeing support

Job summary

Cboe Global Markets is seeking a Lead Engineer, Quality Assurance to own quality across the BIDS platform, including the BIDS Trader workstation, core matching engine, and back‑end services. You will work with developers, product managers and business stakeholders in New York and Calgary to raise test coverage and accelerate reliable releases.

This hands‑on IC role emphasizes building test harnesses, automating CI, and driving continuous quality improvements across complex, latency‑sensitive

Qualifications

• Five to 10 years of experience in software quality assurance or test engineering, with a track record on complex, transactional or real‑time systems.
• Demonstrated ability to design and maintain manual and automated test suites, not only to execute them.
• Experience owning test strategy and test plans across functional, regression and integration testing in an Agile delivery environment.
• Experience with source control and continuous integration tooling such as Git, TeamCity and Jira.
• Excellent analytical skills, close attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively within a cross‑functional team.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, software systems or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Validate FIX connectivity and client onboarding flows, testing order entry, execution reports and drop‑copy behavior against client and venue specifications.
• Define the test approach for new features, working with development and product from requirements through to release.
• Execute and evolve functional, regression and end‑to‑end integration testing, including performance and resilience scenarios against the trading engine.
• Build test harnesses, test data and environment tooling that widen coverage and shorten feedback loops for the whole team.
• Integrate automated suites into CI pipelines and keep them fast and stable.
• Investigate defects through to root cause, with clear reproduction steps, and partner with developers on the fix and its verification.
• Contribute to release readiness reviews and verify behavior in production following deployments.
• Challenge yourself and the team on quality practices, and champion continuous improvement in how we test.

Skills

Test strategy

Automation testing

CI pipelines

Git/Jira/TeamCity

Selenium/Playwright

JUnit/TestNG

REST API testing

SQL testing

Linux command line

Financial markets knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Git

TeamCity

Jira

Selenium

Playwright

JUnit/TestNG

REST Assured

Postman

Docker

AWS

Job description

Cboe Global Markets is seeking a Lead Engineer, Quality Assurance to own quality across the BIDS platform, including the BIDS Trader workstation, core matching engine, and back‑end services. You will work with developers, product managers and business stakeholders in New York and Calgary to raise test coverage and accelerate reliable releases.

This hands‑on IC role emphasizes building test harnesses, automating CI, and driving continuous quality improvements across complex, latency‑sensitive