Team Lead, QA

Team Lead, QA

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Job Description

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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.    

We are seeking an accomplished Team Lead, Quality Assurance to join our team in testing and verifying the software that drives the payment processing functionality of our business. These features are utilized by our company channels and organizations, including Homes.com, Costar.com, Apartments.com, and LoopNet.com. You will be leading a team of QA Engineers and collaborating with other departments to ensure effective communication across teams. Your responsibilities will include writing test cases to verify compliance with acceptance criteria developed during sprint planning, conducting thorough product testing prior to each release, and tracking and retesting bugs as they are fixed. 

This position is located in our Richmond, VA office and is onsite Monday – Thursday, option to work from home on Friday.  

Responsibilities  

• Ensures that products conform to business requirements/company policies, software quality standards, and established procedures 
• Manage other QA associates and assist in career growth
• 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 deliverables including test plans, test cases, test data, project test progress and release reports, application turnover documents and test schedules 
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and dealing with change
• Recommends and assists in corrective actions taken at all stages of product life cycle 
• Ability to prioritize and be proactive in raising risks and potential issues

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in information systems, computer science, or related field) from an accredited, not for profit university or college 
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• 8+ years industry experience as a software quality assurance test engineer 
• 8+ years of experience with functional testing either manually or via automation tools 
• 2+ years of experience managing direct reports
• Hands on experience in automation and good understanding of automation testing strategies and tools 
• Comfortable writing software to implement functional automated tests using well known design patterns 
• A basic understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals 
• An understanding of quality assurance testing methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, metrics, techniques and the software development life cycle (SDLC) is critical 
• Experience creating and delivery automated test in an Agile environment 
• Experience testing mission-critical relational database applications, and web-based enterprise systems at both the API and UI level
• Experience with testing/observability/debugging tools including Chrome Debugger, Postman, Fiddler, Kibana 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) 
• Experience designing and implementing automated tests using: Playwright, CucumberJS, Selenium, Gherkin, and/or Cypress 
• Experience creating functional automated tests in an Agile environment 
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and Relational Databases with relational databases (administration and T-SQL) 
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and TFS/AzureDevOps.

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