Software Development Engineer in Test

Austin, TX, United States

Software Development Engineer in Test

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.

CoStar is currently seeking a full-time Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) in our Austin office where you will be responsible for writing software test harnesses used to automate the testing of our software. A SDET may write code that tests functionality, computations, performance or scalability.  You will also help troubleshoot these high performance and high availability web applications that drive the growth of our Land business unit.

This position is located in Austin, TX and offers the following hybrid schedule options:

- 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Responsibilities:

Drive our end-to-end automation scripts to reduce time spent on repetitive testing tasks

Writing, scheduling and publishing test automation scripts for full-stack infrastructure

Collaborate with Development and QA engineers to accelerate progress on our test automation goals

Understand the flow of code and how it interacts with different components

Understand project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to create and execute test cases

Set up and maintain current test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, and Web

Building test scenarios based on acceptance criteria

Investigate customer problems referred to you by the technical support team, test bugs, and create and manage bug reports

Handle technical communications and understand the customers' systems

Working with deployments teams, resolve level issues for systems, coordinate on product design, and offer input on the testability of functional elements and product designs

Note all testing actions you have performed in daily and weekly reports

Analyze and deconstruct software systems and coordinate with other teams to enhance the overall design

Research test tools, methodologies, and trends and upgrade existing practices and processes

Managing the final quality on production release

Basic Qualifications:

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience

A track record of commitment to prior employers

6+ years of experience in SDET role

Excellent designing and programming skills in C# .NET

Experience with BDD Concepts

6+ years of experience in Selenium web driver, and testing frameworks

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

Preferred Qualifications And Skills:

Experience with Visual Studio or Azure DevOps or Git

Ability to clearly communicate thoughts and ideas within and across teams

Ability to work well with other team members, developers and management

Ability to juggle priorities and work with minimal supervision or assistance to complete tasks

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