Senior QA Manager

Overview

Cboe Europe is seeking a Senior QA Manager to lead a team of software quality engineers for the European exchange platforms. You will align testing with development and business goals, prioritise and staff projects, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines and testing tools. You’ll apply AI techniques to QA within the SDLC and develop diverse test scenarios for equities, options, futures, and indices. This role supports a high-performance trading system and follows a four-day in-office model in London.

Pay / Benefits

• Fair and competitive salary
• Comprehensive private medical insurance for employees and families
• Private GP service funding
• Life and long-term illness insurance
• Enhanced paid parental and adoption leave
• Pension contributions up to 7% of base salary

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of software quality engineers responsible for testing and deploying the Cboe Europe high-performance trading system
• Translate testing requirements into automated regression tests for Exchange platforms
• Review code and mentor junior team members
• Contribute to new tool designs and testing techniques
• Apply modern AI techniques to QA activities within the Software Development Life Cycle
• Familiarize with supported asset classes and develop test scenarios
• Learn trading concepts to support test coverage across equities, options, futures, and indices

Key requirements

• Recent management experience overseeing quality assurance teams
• Ability to hire top QA talent and grow engineers
• Three years of planning, organizing, and leading test efforts or testing teams
• Experience implementing an AI-centric SDLC in QA
• Practical experience with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or similar
• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks – LangChain, AutoGen, or equivalents
• Coding experience in Python or willingness to learn Python
• OO design and programming skills
• Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL
• Version control experience (Git preferred)
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins or Bamboo
• Atlassian toolset experience a plus
• Experience in financial markets and knowledge of order entry or market data protocols (standout)

• team leadership
• hiring and talent development
• communication with cross-functional teams
• Python development or scripting
• AI-centric QA/SDLC
• Automated test design and execution

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