Senior Quality Assurance Engineer<p><span>&lt;br&gt;</span></p><p>Job Description</p><p><span>&lt;br&gt;</span></p><div><b><u>Overview</u> </b></div><div>CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&amp;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.  </div><div></div><div>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, transformed and 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.  </div><div></div><div>We are seeking an accomplished <b>Senior </b><b>Quality Assurance Engineer</b> to 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. </div><div></div><div>This position is located in our <b>Richmond, VA</b> office and offers a schedule of Monday to Thursday in office with the option to work remote on Friday.  </div><div></div><div></div><div><b><u>Responsibilities</u> </b> </div><ul><li>Ensures that products conform to business requirements/company policies, software quality standards, and established procedures </li><li>Confirms that testable systems are specified, designed and implemented </li><li>Designs, documents and implements procedures and techniques that are consistent with departmental SQA Methodology for analyzing, testing, and evaluating the risk (software &amp; business), accuracy, completeness, internal integrity/consistency, testability and overall quality of business systems and SDLC processes </li><li>Creates and maintains SQA deliverables including test plans, test cases, test data, project test progress and release reports, application turnover documents and test schedules </li><li>Recommends and assists in corrective actions taken at all stages of product life cycle </li><li>Submits and tracks production (maintenance) and release issues in their respective systems </li><li>Develops functional automated tests and curates automated regression test suites </li></ul><div></div><div></div><div><b><u>Basic Qualifications</u> </b></div><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, or related field, from an accredited, not for profit university or college </li><li>7+ years industry experience as a software quality assurance test engineer </li><li>5+ years of experience with functional testing either manually or via automation tools </li><li>Hands on experience in automation and good understanding of automation testing strategies and tools </li><li>Hands on experience designing, developing, implementing functional automated tests using an ATDD style approach using tools such as Playwright/Gherkin/Cucumber </li><li>Comfortable writing software to implement functional automated tests using well known design patterns </li><li>A good understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals </li><li>Knowledgeable testing APIs and familiar with tools such as Postman </li><li>An understanding of quality assurance testing methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, metrics, techniques and the software development life cycle (SDLC) is critical </li><li>Experience creating functional/integration API layer tests </li><li>Experience creating and delivery automated test in an Agile environment </li><li>Experience testing mission-critical relational database applications, and web-based enterprise systems </li><li>Experience reporting, regressing and reproducing software problems. </li><li>Experience with testing/debugging tools including Chrome Debugger, Postman, Fiddler, Kibana </li><li>Strong working knowledge of SQL and Relational Databases with relational databases (administration and T-SQL) </li><li>Track record of commitment to prior employers </li></ul><div></div><div></div><div><b><u>Preferred Qualifications</u></b> </div><ul><li>Strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) </li><li>Experience designing and implementing automated tests using: Playwright, CucumberJS, Gherkin, and/or Cypress </li><li>Experience creating functional automated tests in an Agile environment </li><li>Experience with writing T-SQL queries and/or MongoDB queries </li><li>Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and TFS. </li><li>Capacity to effectively interface with dynamic development teams </li><li>Ability to prioritize, multi-task and be proactive </li></ul><div></div><div><b><u>What’s in it for You?</u> </b></div><div>When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. </div><div></div><div>Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to): </div><ul><li>Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug </li><li>Life, legal, and supplementary insurance </li><li>Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family </li><li>Commuter and parking benefits </li><li>401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions </li><li>Employee stock purchase plan </li><li>Paid time off </li><li>Tuition reimbursement </li><li>On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes </li><li>Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, &amp; Inclusion Employee Resource Groups </li><li>Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks </li></ul><div></div><div>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. </div><div>#LI-MC5</div><div></div><div></div><div>CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing</div><p><span>&lt;br&gt;</span></p><p>CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing</p><p></p><p></p>

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