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

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.   

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.

Our team is seeking an accomplished Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team in supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization. You will have a direct impact on highly visible Apartments.com web applications that touch millions of users. You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve Apartments’ software products

This position is located in Irvine, CA and offers 4 days a week onsite with 1 day work from home.

Responsibilities 

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain Test Cases and Scripts based on product requirements and specifications. 
• Investigate, log, and escalate bugs identified during testing. 
• Work with the Product and Development teams to analyze project requirements with the goal of finding gaps early and improving Acceptance Criteria. 
• Validate product against Requirements, Design and Code. 
• Collaborate with other Software Quality Assurance Engineers on the continual improvement of test methods, strategies and test coverage 
• Act as an advocate for delivering quality products, train, support and coach other team members. 
• Coordinate and participate in sprint work and regression testing efforts before and during the releases. 
• Gain a deep understanding of the CoStar business, including the Analytic products and how they integrate with our specific product area. 
• Assess, recommend and implement tools to enhance testing. 

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• 5+ years of industry experience as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer. 
• 3+ years of experience in automation with the desire and ability to write and run automated tests in a continuous integration environment. 
• Experience with API testing using Swagger or Postman. 
• Experience with Selenium. 
• Experience with Functional, Automation, Regression, E2E, Smoke, Sanity, Integration, Browser, Exploratory and User Experience testing. 
• Experience with Object-oriented design and coding skills (preferably C#). 
• Experiencing in debugging code. 
• Experience and knowledge of Agile, scrum ceremonies, QA testing methodologies and the SDLC. 
• Detail-oriented and possess strong organizational and communication skills (both written and verbal). 
• Experience testing web-based enterprise systems and SAAS. 
• Experience writing detailed bug reports, tailing logs and conducting a root cause analysis. 
• Fluent in SQL and relational databases, including experience testing relational database-backed applications. 
• History of partnering and collaborating with software development teams. 
• Experience with QA automated testing frameworks. 
• Experience with Mobile Web and Accessibility testing. 

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.

This position offers a base salary range of $ $96,000 - $148,000, based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan.

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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