Senior Quality Automation Engineer

At Cotality, we are driven by a single mission—to make the property industry faster, smarter, and more people-centric. Cotality is the trusted source for property intelligence, with unmatched precision, depth, breadth, and insights across the entire ecosystem. Our talented team of 5,000 employees globally uses our network, scale, connectivity and technology to drive the largest asset class in the world. Join us as we work toward our vision of fueling a thriving global property ecosystem and a more resilient society.

Cotality is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking; it's a place where you can collaborate, feel valued, develop skills and directly impact the real estate economy. We know our people are our greatest asset. At Cotality, you can be yourself, lift people up and make an impact. By putting clients first and continuously innovating, we're working together to set the pace for unlocking new possibilities that better serve the property industry.

Job Description:

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and design Test Automation solutions. Automation test solutions involve activities such as: maintainability, reliability, separation of test code and test data, recovering from unexpected run-time events, synchronizing test cases with the application under test, and providing meaningful test result.

• Analyze, test plans, test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other test documentations.

• Learn, assess, analyze, and research Test Automation processes in collaboration with other QA and Dev teams in order to automate test procedures.

• Determine if testing can be automated.

• Determine and share new methodologies.

• Apply a consistent and repeatable methodology to the testing of software to maintain quality standards for company products.

• Make recommendations to processes and standards.

• Maintain documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software.

• Collaborate with team members on quality improvements (i.e., testing methods, tools, automation).

• Make recommendations to quality processes.

• Provide metrics on test results.

• Mentor less experienced members when applicable.

• Coordinate the execution of test plans among the QA team members for all new content added to all web solutions each sprint.

• Pre-qualify every production release deployment by ensuring that all smoke and automation tests have been completed successfully.

• Apply critical thinking and prioritization of QA findings to conclude that new content is cleared for production deployment.

• Apply analytical thinking towards testing indirect dependencies among Web application features.

JOB SITE: CoreLogic Spatial Solutions, LLC (dba Cotality) – 40 Pacifica, Suite 900, Irvine, CA 92618. *Work from home permitted.

Job Qualifications:

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or closely related field (or foreign equivalent) plus one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a closely related occupation.

REQUIRED SKILLS: 

• Must possess expertise/knowledge sufficient to adequately perform the duties of the job being offered.

• Expertise/knowledge may be gained through employment experience or education.

• Such expertise/knowledge cannot be “quantified” by “time.”

• Required expertise/knowledge includes:

  • Programming Proficiency: Experience with languages including Java, Python and JavaScript to write and maintain test scripts;

  • Automation Frameworks: Experience with automation frameworks Selenium, TestNG, and JUnit for web application testing;

  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Familiarity with CI/CD tools including Jenkins for integrating automated tests into the development pipeline;

  • API Testing: Knowledge of tools including Postman, Rest Assured, or SoapUI for testing RESTful and SOAP web services;

  • Version Control Systems: Proficiency with Git or other version control systems for managing test scripts and collaborating with development teams;

  • Test Management Tools: Experience with test management tools including Jira, to organize and track testing efforts;

  • Performance Testing: Understanding of performance testing tools including JMeter or LoadRunner to ensure application scalability and responsiveness;

  • Database Knowledge: Ability to write SQL queries for database verification and validation as part of the testing proces