CoStar

Senior QA Engineer

Job Description

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, 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.

Our team is responsible for building software in support of CoStar Group's sales teams. We think big, building innovative CRM features that empowers our sales teams' success. We are a collaborative group with a mix of native mobile, data, API / platform, and front-end skills, and we are working to drive our company's future with our proprietary CRM system.

This position is located in Richmond, VA and is in onsite Monday – Thursday, option to work from home on Friday.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that products conform to business requirements/company policies, software quality standards, and established procedures
• Creates and maintains deliverables including test plans, test cases, test data, project test progress and release reports, application turnover documents and test schedules
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and dealing with change
• Recommends and assists in corrective actions taken at all stages of product life cycle
• Ability to prioritize and be proactive in raising risks and potential issues

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college.
• A track record of commitment to prior employer
• 5+ years industry experience as a software quality assurance test engineer
• 5+ years of experience with functional testing either manually or via automation tools
• Comfortable writing software to implement functional automated tests using well known design patterns
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and Relational Databases with relational databases (administration and T-SQL)
• Experience testing mission-critical relational database applications, and web-based enterprise systems at both the API and UI level
• Experience with testing/observability/debugging tools including Chrome Debugger, Postman, Fiddler, Kibana
• Experience testing RESTful APIs and Web Applications
• Familiarity with CI/CD deployment processes
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners)
• Experience designing and implementing automated tests using: Playwright, CucumberJS, Selenium, Gherkin, and/or Cypress
• Experience creating functional automated tests in an Agile environment

What’s in it for you?

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.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training and tuition reimbursement.

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) retirement plan with 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

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

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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