Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Company: CoStar Group, Inc.
Location: Washington
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

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 are seeking an accomplished Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 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).
Responsibilities

• Ensures that products conform to business requirements/company policies, software quality standards, and established procedures.
  
• Confirms that testable systems are specified, designed, and implemented.
  
• Designs, documents, and implements procedures and techniques consistent with departmental SQA Methodology for analyzing, testing, and evaluating the risk (software & business), accuracy, completeness, internal integrity/consistency, testability, and overall quality of business systems and SDLC processes.
  
• Creates and maintains SQA deliverables including test plans, test cases, test data, project test progress and release reports, application turnover documents, and test schedules.
  
• Recommends and assists in corrective actions taken at all stages of the product life cycle.
  
• Submits and tracks production (maintenance) and release issues in their respective systems.
  
• Develops functional automated tests and curates automated regression test suites.
  
  Basic Qualifications
  
  
• Bachelor's degree 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 a good understanding of automation testing strategies and tools.
  
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and implementing functional automated tests using an ATDD style approach using tools such as Playwright/Gherkin/Cucumber.
  
• Comfortable writing software to implement functional automated tests using well-known design patterns.
  
• A basic understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals.
  
• Knowledgeable testing APIs and familiar with tools such as Postman.
  
• An understanding of quality assurance testing methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, metrics, techniques, and the software development life cycle (SDLC) is critical.
  
• Experience creating functional/integration API layer tests.
  
• Experience creating and delivering automated tests in an Agile environment.
  
• Experience testing mission-critical relational database applications and web-based enterprise systems.
  
• Experience reporting, regressing, and 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 record of commitment to prior employers.
  
  Preferred Qualifications
  
  
• 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.
  
• Experience with writing T-SQL queries and/or MongoDB queries.
  
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and TFS.
  
• Capacity to effectively interface with dynamic development teams.
  
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and be proactive.
  
  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. Our benefits package includes comprehensive healthcare coverage, life insurance, mental health counseling services, commuter benefits, 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, on-site fitness center, and access to CoStar Group's Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups.
  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.
  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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