Quality Assurance Engineer (Manual)

Job Description

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. 

As a CoStar QA Engineer on the Data Management team you will play a key role in testing data driven processes and software that support CoStar Group’s largest brands including, CoStar Suite, LoopNet and Homes.com.   You will deeply understand how the software that you test impacts the quality of data presented in critical applications.  We firmly believe that what separates a good QA Engineer from a great one is a deep understanding of the business that they are supporting.

This position is located in Richmond, VA and offers the following hybrid schedule options:

• 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

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  
• A track record of commitment to prior employers 
• 2+ years of experience working on development and maintenance of Enterprise-Level applications
• 2+ 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
• 2+ 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 CypressJS, Gherkin and/or Cucumber
• Experience with writing T-SQL queries and/or MongoDB queries
• Experience with testing/debugging tools including Chrome Debugger, Postman, Fiddler, Kibana

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 qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply.  However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. 

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing