Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Details:

The Real Deal is looking for a Quality Assurance (QA) engineer to join our digital team. You will join a team building innovative content and big data applications in the real estate space. You will be responsible for exploratory and automated testing to ensure product quality. You should be comfortable working directly with editorial and research teams, have experience working in a scrum Agile environment and be comfortable being part of the full software lifecycle from requirements gathering to software development, testing and release.

Job Responsibilities:

• Your responsibilities include designing and implementing tests, debugging and defining corrective actions.
• You will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts.)
• Create quality measurements to track improvement in products
• Execute quality improvement testing and activities
• Develop quality assurance standards and company processes
• Ensure products meet customer expectations and demand
• Create reports documenting errors and issues for fixing
• Work closely with the development team to improve existing products
• Maintain standards for reliability and performance of production

Qualifications:

• Proven work experience in a full software development life cycle
• At least 2 years experience in software quality assurance
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting and ability to validate data directly in a database
• Knowledge of and experience in automated testing tools
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus

Who We Are:

The Real Deal is the largest real-estate news outlet in the US, reaching millions of professionals daily through our media channels. We have received 60 awards for editorial excellence over the past six years, including the General Excellence award from the Society of Business Writers and Editors.

Quantcast rates us among the 300-most visited sites in the US and the website with the wealthiest audience and one of the most educated.

As a publication, The Real Deal is to real estate what Variety is to entertainment or what Politico is to Beltway politics – a plugged-in news outlet that is read by the entire industry.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We partner with our employees to support diversity and inclusion in the workplace and through higher education programs supporting rising journalists.