About the position
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. As a CoStar Senior Software Engineer in Test you will have a direct impact on highly visible Apartments Native Apps for iOS and Android that touch millions of users. You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve Apartments' software product. This position is located in Irvine, CA and offers 4 days a week onsite with 1 day work from home.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts for native mobile applications using relevant frameworks and tools (e.g., Appium, Katalon Studio, Calabash).
- Write and maintain automation documentation.
- Ensure that products conform to business requirements/company policies, software quality standards, and established procedures.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members.
- Prepare and execute functional, integration, and regression test suites.
- Recommend and assist in corrective actions in automation testing.
- Develop Automation strategy and planning across projects.
- Continuously evaluate and improve test automation processes, tools, and methodologies.
- Execute automated test cases, analyze results, identify defects, and report findings to development teams.
- Document bugs found, track, and work iteratively with developers to manage through resolution lifecycle.
- Conduct performance, stability, and UI testing on various mobile devices and operating systems.
- Integrate automated tests into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to enable rapid and reliable releases.
- Assess, recommend and implement tools to enhance testing.
- Demonstrate innovation, flexibility, self-directed, detail oriented.
- Work independently and meet deadlines.
- Actively engage in team coaching and mentoring.
- Demonstrate excellent reporting and collaboration skills.
- Demonstrate good time management and organizational skills.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college.
- A track record of commitment to prior employees.
- 6+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with mobile automation frameworks and tools.
- Extensive hands-on experience in developing automated tests for native apps using tools such as Appium for cross-platform (iOS and Android) automation.
- Experience building integration tests using tools like MSTest, NUnit, SpecFlow or similar Frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of mobile app architecture, UI elements, and platform-specific behaviors.
- Skilled in evaluating trade-offs and defining testing strategies for native applications across emulators and physical devices.
- Complete understanding of automation systems and databases.
- Experience in debugging code.
- Work closely with developers, product managers, and other QA engineers to understand requirements, define test strategies, and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal), collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient with Agile testing methodologies and best practices.
- Strong work ethic and a positive attitude.
- Ability to prioritize, multi-task and be proactive.
Nice-to-haves
- Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (Java).
- Experience with Selenium.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Technologies, specifically .NET Framework, C#, TSQL, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge/Experience of Web development technologies including HTML, XPath, CSS, & JavaScript.
Benefits
- 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.
