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About CoStar Group
CoStar Group is the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces, including CoStar, Apartments.com, and LoopNet platforms. Industry: Commercial Real Estate Data & Analytics
CoStar Group currently has
65 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$133,000–$190,000
across 63 roles with salary data.
Senior Software Engineer - Quality Engineering joins the team to elevate how the organization utilizes AI to build, scale, and maintain modern software systems. This role focuses on automation frameworks and quality engineering by leveraging agentic engineering and AI-assisted tools like Copilot or Claude for test design, failure analysis, and defect triage. The engineer will develop functional automated tests, curate regression suites, and ensure products meet business requirements and SOX compliance. Key technical skills include SQL, T-SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Postman, and Playwright. Experience with Datadog, Log Rocket, and CI/CD pipelines is required to support release management. The role addresses the challenge of ensuring quality across mission-critical relational database applications and web-based enterprise systems within the software development life cycle, focusing on improving testing coverage and speed through an AI-first mindset.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Virginia?
Median $211200 from 265 postings across 15 companies.
Leverage AI-assisted tools and agentic engineering to accelerate test design, automation, and defect triage.
Develop functional automated tests and curate automated regression test suites for web-based enterprise systems.
Design and implement testing procedures that align with SQA methodologies and SOX compliance requirements.
Create and maintain SQA deliverables including test plans, cases, data, and release reports.
Support release management by validating readiness and coordinating go/no-go testing decisions.
Track and manage software issues throughout the entire software development life cycle.
Perform API testing and debugging using tools like Postman to ensure integration quality.
Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, or related field from an accredited, in-person, not-for-profit university or college.
Experience with agentic engineering and AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot to accelerate test automation and quality workflows.
Demonstrated ability to apply AI copilots or agentic workflows to test case generation, code review, and root-cause analysis.
Strong working knowledge of SQL, relational database design, and writing T-SQL queries.
Experience testing mission-critical relational database applications and web-based enterprise systems.
Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals and using Postman for API testing and debugging.
Ability to write software for functional automated tests using known design patterns and deliver them in an Agile environment.
Hands-on experience with tools including Chrome Debugger, Datadog, and Log Rocket.
5+ years of industry experience as a software quality assurance test engineer (preferred).
5+ years of experience with functional testing manually or via automation tools (preferred).
Proficiency in designing automated tests using Playwright or similar frameworks (preferred).
Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins (preferred).