Apartments.com - Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Web/API Testing)

Apartments.com - Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Web/API Testing)

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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.

As a CoStar Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for the testing and verification of software systems. QA Engineers 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. 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 position is in our Irvine office and is a hybrid work dynamic with 3 days on-site and 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

• Performs functional, end-to-end, integration, regression, browser and exploratory testing
• Ensures that products conform to business requirements/company policies, software quality standards, and established procedures
• Validates products against specs, design and code
• Designs, documents and implements procedures and techniques that are consistent with departmental SQA Methodology for analyzing, testing, and evaluating 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
• Submits and tracks production and release issues i
• Executes automated test suites

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university of or college
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• 5+ years experience as a software quality assurance test engineer
• An understanding of quality assurance test methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, metrics, techniques and the software development life cycle (SDLC), is critical.
• Experience with Agile and scrum ceremonies
• Strong experience in writing detailed defect reports
• Experience in tailing logs and conducting root cause analysis
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and Relational Databases
• Must be detail-oriented and possess strong organizational, collaboration, written and verbal skills
• Proven capacity to effectively work, communicate and troubleshoot test results with dynamic development teams
• Self-motivator, who can work independently, able to learn quickly, meets deadlines, and demonstrates good analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio, TFS and DataDog
• Exper