Staff Quality Assurance Engineer
CME Group is seeking a Staff QA Engineer to set the strategic vision for quality assurance practices across the Trade Dissemination value chain. As a Staff QA you will define our product QA strategy, drive best practices, and help ensure successful, high-quality feature deliveries across our Trade Dissemination products that allow our customers to receive their trading information and manage their risk in real-time. Our customers rely on these, so reliability is critical.
This role is not just about writing or executing tests; you will define our strategy whilst influencing both product and engineering along the way.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the Quality Vision: Serve as the technical authority defining the QA strategy for the Trade Dissemination value chain and influencing product and engineering leadership on direction and prioritisation.
- Drive High-Impact Initiatives: Take accountability for the successful delivery of Trade Dissemination initiatives. You will capture and communicate complex risks and dependencies while ensuring senior leadership is proactively informed.
- Lead on Complex Root Cause Analysis: Lead and drive product level investigations to resolution during incidents and investigations demonstrating calm and decisive leadership.
- Set Engineering Quality Standards: Champion a culture of delivering high quality engineering solutions with an emphasis on automation and repeatability. Identify and drive process improvements, mentor other engineers and contribute to critical architectural decisions from a quality assurance and testability perspective.
What We're Looking For
- Demonstrable professional experience leading the QA function providing technical oversight and strategic direction for a highly technical team.
- Distributed Systems Testing: Experience designing tests for resilience, fault tolerance, and data consistency across distributed, cloud‑native architectures.
- Observability and Testability: Expert use of monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) to validate system quality in production and pre‑production environments.
- Expert level skills in combining quality engineering with the ability to quickly absorb complex business and technology concepts, and translate them into actionable QA strategies and delivery plans.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align senior leadership and principal engineers.
- A strategic mindset, with the ability to connect technical decisions to business impact and long‑term goals.
Desirable Skills
- Domain Expertise: Experience with ultra‑low latency (ULL) trading platforms or large‑scale financial applications in capital markets.
- Knowledge of cloud‑native architecture, particularly on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with a strong command of infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
- CI/CD Leadership: Experience architecting and optimising CI/CD pipelines for mission‑critical services.
Why CME Group
- Be part of a global leader in financial services technology.
- Work on cutting‑edge technology in a collaborative and innovative culture.
- Receive a competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Grow your career in SRE with an organisation committed to this modern approach.
Join CME Group and play a crucial role in ensuring the stability and performance of our global trading applications. Apply now to be a part of our dynamic Trade Dissemination team!
Company Benefits
- Bonus Programme
- Equity Programme
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Private Medical and Dental coverage
- Mental Health Benefit Programme
- Group Pension Plan
- Income Protection
- Life Assurance
- Cycle To Work
- EV Car Benefit Scheme
- Gym Membership
- Family Leave
- Education Assistance – MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree
- Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification
- Hybrid Working
CME Group: Where Futures are Made
CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.
At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal‑opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.
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