Software Engineer in Test - Homes.com

Software Engineer in Test - Homes.com

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Job Description

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Software Engineer in Test

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.   

Homes.com 

Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com.  Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company. 

Learn more about Homes.com. 

As a CoStar Software Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for the testing and verification of software systems. SDETs utilize a combination of functional testing methods, automated testing tools and load testing tools. Typically, responsible for writing test cases that ensure compliance with acceptance criteria developed during sprint planning. SDETs are typically embedded with development teams. Ensures adequate product testing prior to each release. Responsible for tracking bugs and retesting as bugs are fixed.

This role is located in Arlington, VA and is 4 days on-site and 1 day work from home.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that products conform to business requirements/company policies, software quality standards, and established procedures

• Design and build automation tests using existing tools and frameworks

• Promote Development and QA team’s productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices

• Work directly with Developers, Product Managers, and Technical Business Analysts to ensure building testable and automated components.

• 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

• Recommends and assists in corrective actions taken at all stages of product life

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university of college

• A track record of commitment to prior employers

• 2+ years industry experience as an SDET or a software quality assurance test engineer

• Experience with white box and grey box testing

• Hands on experience in automation and testing frameworks and good understanding of automation testing strategies and tools

• An understanding of quality assurance test methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, metrics, techniques, and the software development life cycle (SDLC) is critical.

• Ability to work with complex SQL queries and data applications.

• Experience and willingness manually testing mission-critical relational database applications, and web-ba