Quality Assurance Engineer (Manual)

Quality Assurance Engineer (Manual)

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Job Description

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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, 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. 

We are seeking an accomplished QA Engineer to join our team in building the software tools that power our proprietary CRM platform and support our sales teams across Homes.com, Costar.com, Apartments.com, LoopNet.com, and more. Successful candidates will be knowledgeable in writing and executing test cases to verify the functionality of software, have a high level of understanding of software development, and know different ways to test components in a range of scenarios. You will be highly analytical and have exceptional attention to detail, as well as strong communication skills.

This position is located in Richmond, VA and offers 2 days remote per week.

Responsibilities

• Designs, documents and implements procedures and techniques that are 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited, not for profit university or college
• Track record of commitment to prior employers
• 3+ years of experience working on development and maintenance of Enterprise-Level applications
• 3+ years of experience with functional testing either manually or via automation tools.
• 2+ years of experience with TFS, Git, Visual Studio, or other Microsoft tools
• 3+ years of experience working in Agile environment with solid understanding on scrum and sprint cycles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners)
• Experience with writing T-SQL queries, or elastic/OpenSearch Queries
• Experience with testing/debugging tools including Chrome Debugger, Postman, Fiddler.
• Experience with error logging applications, Datadog, Kibana
• Experience working in a Microsoft shop, using Azure and TFS
• Experience with validating in cloud storage, AWS, Snowflake (a plus, not a requirement)
• Experience with JavaScript Gherkin and/or Cucumber.  Playwright (a plus, not a requirement)

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, 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) 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 

We welcome all qualifie