Apartments.com - Team Lead, Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Apartments.com - Team Lead, Software Quality Assurance Engineer

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Job Description

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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.   

Apartments.com is the nation’s #1 rental marketplace for owners, property managers and consumers. Apartments.com is the network that millions of renters every year rely on to find their new place, is continuing to grow our industry-leading sales force.  We provide apartment Property Managers and Owners with a platform to market their property listings and the industry’s most comprehensive virtual tools to attract the most and highest-quality renters.  The Apartments.com Network includes Apartments.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, and eight other leading rental sites. Our suite of services includes digital advertising, social and reputation management, and market analytic solutions which delivers innovative tools for our customers.

Learn more about Apartments.com.

Our team in Orange County is growing and searching for a Software Quality Assurance Team Lead who can take us to the next level. The Software Quality Assurance Team Lead will be responsible for verifying and ensuring the health, stability and overall quality of business systems as well as influencing Quality Assurance best practices and testing methodologies of varying IT systems and applications. 

This position is located in Irvine and offers the following hybrid schedule options:

• 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities

• Lead SQA engineers by assisting with the development of test approaches; review and approve system test plans, resolve issues, and coordinate activities for complex technical systems and applications.
• Mentor Test Engineers and share knowledge to make sure QA staff meets technical qualifications required for their positions.
• Assist in formulating QA standards and best practices, organizational policies and processes and strategic plans.
• Establish metrics; apply the appropriate test measurements and metrics in the product and for Testing team.
• Mentor team members. as well as develop test programs.
• Define quality standards and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
• Work as a member of cross-functional scrum teams to ensure product quality.
• Plan, deploy and manage the testing effort. for any given engagement
• Ability to Solve problems while considering timeliness, effectiveness, and practicality in addressing product needs.
• Create list of milestones and checkpoints; and set measurable criteria’s to check the quality on a timely basis.
• Work with multiple sprint/feature scrum teams to design, validate, adopt and govern a test approach that ensures quality requirements. are met.
• Keep raising the bar and standards of all the quality processes with every project.
• Develop automated regression test suites using automated testing tools
• Step in to help w/writing and executing Test Cases when needed.

• Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college.
• 7+ years industry experience in software quality assurance.
• 2+ years leading SQA teams.
• 5+ years of automation experience
• Strong knowledge of software quality assurance best practices & test methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, techniques and the software development life cycle (SDLC) is critical.
• Enhanced trouble shooting skills; understands component and system relationships and dependencies – (configurations, logs, interfaces, data & data flows, etc.)
• Must be detail-