Senior QA Automation Test Engineer

Cedar Cares, Inc; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Competitive salary

PTO & holidays

401(k) match

Job summary

Cboe Global Markets is seeking a Senior QA Automation Test Engineer to shape testing strategy across UI, API, and integration layers. The role emphasizes automation, mentorship, and building robust test frameworks within a high-trust environment.

You will own test coverage, define data strategies, and partner with engineering to ensure scalable, observable quality across distributed systems. Strong Java/Cucumber/Selenium skills are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in quality assurance with strong automation focus.
• Bachelor’s in CS or related field.
• Hands-on automation with Cucumber, Selenium or Playwright.
• Strong SQL skills and relational databases.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior engineers.
• Experience testing across UI, API and integration layers.
• Design and implement test data and environments.

Responsibilities

• Set quality standards and ensure consistent practices across teams.
• Mentor engineers and raise practice standards.
• Define release confidence criteria including coverage and defect targets.
• Plan test data and environment strategies for reproducibility.
• Influence testability in engineering before coding.
• Design and build automated test frameworks for UI, API and integration.
• Validate end-to-end clearing workflows (trade processing, settlement).
• Ensure data accuracy across distributed systems.
• Embed automated tests into delivery pipelines to catch failures early.
• Own test coverage as a measurable outcome.

Skills

Leadership & mentorship

QA strategy

Test automation

Analytical mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Java

Cucumber

Selenium

Playwright

Postman

RestAssured

SQL

Job description

Job Description: Building trusted markets — powered by our people

At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.

We’re building meaningful ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we’ve earned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. We strive to provide employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.

To support strong partnership and team connection, this role follows a four day in office work model.

Location Overview

Cboe HQ is located in the historic Old Post Office district, it’s a landmark that blends classic architecture with modern amenities. The building features expansive spaces with high ceilings and large windows, offering an abundance of natural light and panoramic views of the city skyline and the Chicago River.

With its prime location in the heart of downtown, the OPO Building provides easy access to major transportation hubs, including Union Station and multiple CTA lines, making it convenient for commuters.

The building is home to a variety of amenities, including restaurants, a fitness center, and collaborative workspaces, creating a vibrant and dynamic work environment in one of Chicago’s most iconic areas.

Role Overview

Cboe Clear U.S. (CCUS) is a regulated clearinghouse. We clear the event contracts and prediction markets listed on Cboe's exchanges, and we are building toward tokenized collateral, 24x7 operation, and the infrastructure that carries traditional finance onto DeFi rails.

CCUS Software Engineering is a high trust environment. Failure leads to inquiry rather than blame. Working across team boundaries is expected rather than tolerated. We solve the problem, then we write the code. Design documents and architecture decision records come first. The engineers we value most close their feedback loop. They write tests, and they instrument what they ship so it fails fast, explains itself in production, leaves an audit trail and rolls back cleanly.

The Senior QA Automation Test Engineer sets the strategy for proving the platform works. The difference from our QA Automation Test Engineer is scope. That role builds coverage for a team, while you architect the frameworks other engineers build on and own test strategy across the platform.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Helping set quality standards and review practices that are held consistently across teams.


• Mentoring engineers and raising the standard of practice around you.


• Defining what release confidence means here, including coverage expectations and escaped defect targets.


• Setting the test data and environment strategy, so clearing scenarios stay reproducible as the platform grows.


• Influencing how engineering builds for testability, before code is written.


• Designing and building automated test frameworks across UI, API and integration layers.


• Validating end-to-end clearing workflows including trade processing, margin, settlement and reconciliation.


• Ensuring data accuracy and consistency across distributed systems.


• Embedding automated testing into delivery pipelines so failures surface early and loudly.


• Owning test coverage as a measurable outcome and driving escaped defects down over time.


• Building and maintaining the test data and test environments that make clearing scenarios reproducible.


• Partnering with engineering teams to define testable solutions before code is written.


• Documenting test strategy and coverage decisions so they outlast any one release.

Required:

• Proven leadership and mentorship of junior engineers


• Driving QA across the full application lifecycle, from test strategies, test plans and test cases through smoke, regression, functional, and integration testing


• Understanding of relational databases, and comfortable writing queries to validate data across systems


• Solid grounding in object‑oriented and functional programming, software engineering principles, design patterns and data modeling fundamentals


• A strong analytical mindset, and comfort working across teams in a fast‑paced environment


• Hands‑on automated testing with Cucumber, Selenium or Playwright


• Strong command of Java, with the depth to architect, build, and extend test frameworks for other engineers


• API testing across REST, using RestAssured, Postman or an equivalent

Preferred:

• AI‑powered testing tools, including test generation and self‑healing frameworks


• The FIX messaging protocol


• Kafka or another event streaming platform


• Clearing, trading or other financial systems


• Managing a testing team or planning testing activities for a team

Nice to have:

• Python as a second test‑authoring language


• Working knowledge of Docker, Podman or similar container runtimes


• Exposure to AWS or similar Cloud Platform


• Test data and environment management at scale, including adapting test flows as live data changes


• Executing performance, resiliency and failover testing, including business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) scenarios

Current technology stack: Java on Kubernetes. Application code and CI pipelines live in GitHub with GitHub Actions. Container images and build artifacts live in registries such as Harbor and Artifactory, and Helm charts are deployed by ArgoCD from a GitOps repository. PostgreSQL, Kafka and Linux. This is representative rather than exhaustive. On the quality side we work in Cucumber, RestAssured, and Selenium or Playwright, against PostgreSQL with the Atlassian suite for tracking. You do not need experience with every technology in our environment. We hire for competencies over pedigree, so if you have built similar systems and learn quickly, we encourage you to apply.

Minimum Work Experience: 7+ years in quality assurance with a strong automation focus

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits and Perks of working for Cboe Global Markets

• Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement


• Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sick days and annual community service days


• Flexible, hybrid work environment


• Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services


• 2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire


• Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan


• Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation


• Employee referral bonus program


• Volunteer opportunities to give back to your communities


• Complimentary lunch, snacks and coffee in any Cboe office


• Paid tuition assistance and education opportunities


• Generous charitable giving company match


• Paid parental leave and fertility benefits


• On-site gyms and discounts to other fitness centers

More About Cboe Global Markets

We’re reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people. Our journey is an inclusive one. We’re investing deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed. We work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion. We’re an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.

Learn more about life at Cboe on our website and LinkedIn.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally protected characteristic, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or Veteran status. We are committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)

At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program. The anticipated base salary range for this role is $121,550-$157,300, with actual compensation determined by job‑related factors such as skills, relevant experience, education, internal alignment, and location. This role may also be eligible for annual incentive compensation and, where applicable, participation in Cboe's long‑term equity programs. Additional information about Cboe's total rewards program, including benefits and other compensation components, can be found here: Total Rewards at CBOE.