Senior Automation Test Engineer - Washington DC, United States - CoStar Group

Description

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. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
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. Ensures adequate product testing prior to each release. This position is located in Washington, DC and offers a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.
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, QA Engineers, 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
Bachelor's Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university of college
~ 5+ years industry experience as a software quality assurance test engineer
~ Hands on experience in automation 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.
~ Knowledge in API Testing and working in an Agile environment
~ Strong working knowledge of SQL and Relational Databases with relational databases (administration and T-SQL)
~ Experience testing mission-critical relational database applications, and web-based enterprise systems
~ Experience reporting, regressing, and reproducing software problems.

Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio and TFS
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.

Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
~ Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
~ Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
~ 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
~ Employee stock purchase plan
~ 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. we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing
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