Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Job Description
Overview
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.? Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.?
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.? We've continually refined,transformedand perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.? We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.? This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.? By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.???
We are seeking an accomplishedSenior Quality Assurance Engineerto join our team in the testing and verification of the software that drives the content collection and curation efforts across our organization (Homes.com, Costar.com, Apartments.com, LoopNet.com). QA Engineers are responsible for writing test cases that ensure compliance with acceptance criteria developed during sprint planning, ensuring adequate product testing prior to each release, and tracking bugs and retesting as bugs are fixed.
This positionis located inour Richmond, VA office and offers a schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.
Responsibilities
Ensures that products conform to business requirements/company policies, software quality standards, and establishedprocedures
Confirms that testable systems are specified,designedandimplemented
Designs,documentsand implements procedures and techniques that are consistent with departmental SQA Methodology for analyzing, testing, and evaluating the risk (software & business), accuracy, completeness, internalintegrity/consistency,testabilityand overall quality of business systems and SDLCprocesses
Creates and maintains SQA deliverables including test plans, test cases, test data, project test progress and release reports, application turnover documents and testschedules
Recommends andassistsin corrective actions taken at all stages of product lifecycle
Submits and tracks production (maintenance) and release issues in their respectivesystems
Developsfunctional automated testsand curates automated regression testsuites
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor'sdegree in information systems, computer science, or related field, from an accredited, not for profit university or college
5+ years industry experience as a software quality assurance test engineer
5+ years of experience with functional testing either manually or via automation tools
Hands on experience in automation and good understanding of automation testing strategies and tools
Hands on experience designing,developing, implementingfunctional automated testsusinganATDD styleapproachusing toolssuch asPlaywright/Gherkin/Cucumber
Comfortable writing software to implementfunctional automated tests usingwell known designpatterns
A basic understanding ofJavaScript/TypeScriptfundamentals
Knowledgeable testingAPIsand familiar with tools such as Postman
An understanding of quality assurance testingmethodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, metrics,techniquesand the software development life cycle (SDLC) iscritical
Experience creatingfunctional/integrationAPIlayertests
Experience creating and delivery automated test in an Agileenvironment
Experience testing mission-critical relational database applications, and web-based enterprise systems
Experience reporting,regressingand reproducing software problems.
Experience with testing/debugging tools including Chrome Debugger, Postman, Fiddler, Kibana
Strong working knowledge of SQL and Relational Databases with relational databases (administration and T-SQL)
Track recordof commitment to prior employers
Preferred Qualifications
Strong communicationskills (to both business and technical partners)
Experiencedesigning andimplementing automated tests using:Playwright,CucumberJS,Selenium,Gherkin,and/orCyoress
Experience creating functional automated tests in an Agileenvironment
Experience with writing T-SQL queries and/or MongoDB queries
Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio Codeand TFS.
Capacityto effectivelyinterfacewith dynamic developmentteams
Ability to prioritize, multi-task andbeproactive
What'sin it for You?
When you join CoStar Group,you'llexperience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.
Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):
Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
Commuter and parking benefits
401(K) retirementplanwith matching contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
Access to CoStar Group's Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply.?However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing