Team Lead, Quality Assurance

Team Lead, Quality Assurance

Job Description

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.

The Quality Assurance Team Lead will be responsible for verifying and ensuring the health, stability and overall quality of business systems as well as influencing Quality Assurance best practices and testing methodologies of varying IT systems and applications.

This position is located in Richmond, VA and offers the following hybrid schedule

• 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Responsibilities

• Lead SQA engineers by assisting with the development of test approaches, review and approve system test plans, resolve issues, and coordinate activities for complex technical systems and applications.
• Mentor Test Engineers and share knowledge to make sure QA staff meets technical qualifications required for their positions
• Assist in formulating QA standards and best practices, organizational policies and processes and strategic plans
• Establish metrics, mentors team members as well as developing test program.
• Define quality standards and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
• Work as a member of cross-functional scrum teams to ensure product quality
• Apply the appropriate test measurements and metrics in the product and the testing Team
• Plan, deploy and manage the testing effort for any given engagement
• Ability to solve problems while considering timeliness, effectiveness, and practicality in addressing product needs
• Create list of milestones and checkpoints and set measurable criteria's to check the quality on timely basis.
• Work with multiple sprint/feature teams to design, validate, adopt and govern a test approach that ensures quality requirements are met.
• Keep raising the bar and standards of all the quality processes with every project.
• Develop automated regression test suites using automated testing tools

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years industry experience in software quality assurance
• 2+ years leading SQA teams
• Strong knowledge of software quality assurance best practices & test methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, techniques and the software development life cycle (SDLC) is critical.
• Enhanced trouble shooting skills, understands component and system relationships and dependencies - (configurations, logs, interfaces, data & data flows, etc.)
• Must be detail-oriented and possess strong organizational, written and verbal skills
• Proven capacity to effectively interface with dynamic development teams
• Hands on experience in automation using selenium and good understanding of automation testing strategies and tools
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and proactive.
• Highly experienced in writing test plans and test cases and documenting software defects.
• Estimate and review QA efforts as part of the overall development effort and prepare Software QA Test Plans.
• BS degree in information systems, computer science, or related field.
• Track record of commitment to prior employers

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