Job Description

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer



Location: The Shard, London.

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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99ve 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.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

We are searching for an exceptional Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Agile development team and develop testing solutions for our flagship CoStar Information product. Quality Assurance Engineers are responsible for test cases that ensure compliance with acceptance criteria developed during sprint planning, ensuring adequate testing prior each release, and tracking bugs and retesting as bugs are fixed.

This position is in our office at The Shard in London and offers a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Mon & Fri).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Gaining a deep understanding of the CoStar business, including the Analytic products

Designing, developing, executing, and maintaining tests based on product requirements and specifications.

Investigating, logging, and escalating as appropriate the defects identified during testing.

Working with the development team to analyse project requirements with the goal of increasing test coverage.

Collaborating with other Quality Assurance Engineers on the continual improvement.

Coordinate testing for releases. Participate in the Development Life Cycle, contribute to the planning meetings, stand-up meetings, and other Agile ceremonies.

Create and maintain SQA deliverables including test plans, test cases, test data, project test progress and release reports, application turnover documents and test schedules.

QUALIFICATIONS

BS degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

5+ years of industry experience as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer.

Understanding of quality assurance testing methodologies and the software development life cycle.

Must be detail-oriented and possess strong organizational, written, and verbal skills.

Experience testing mission-critical relational database applications and web-based enterprise systems.

Experience reporting, regressing, and reproducing software problems.

Fluent in SQL and relational databases, including experience testing relational database-backed applications.

History of partnering and collaborating with software development teams.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

Ability to write automated regression tests in JavaScript or TypeScript using cypress, playwright or selenium.

Ability to debug HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Experience in TFS\xe2\x80\x99s or Azure DevOps\xe2\x80\x99 systems to write and execute test plans.

WHAT\xe2\x80\x99S IN IT FOR YOU?

Working at CoStar Group means you\'ll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in iconic buildings the Shard and BluFin or one of our key UK-wide hubs. Other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, birthday lunches and much more!

At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds \xe2\x80\x93 men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions and beliefs.

However, we particularly encourage applications from women, disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the commercial real estate industry.

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