Technical Business Analyst

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.

As a CoStar Technical Business Analyst on the Data Automation team you will play a key role in expanding the data platform that supports all of CoStar Group’s largest brands including, CoStar Suite, LoopNet and Homes.com. You will deeply understand what drives the business for which you are building software. We firmly believe that what separates a good developer from a great one is a deep understanding of the business that they are supporting

This position is located in Richmond, VA and is 4 days in office Monday through Thursday and Friday work from Home.

Responsibilities

• Define, design and author project business, functional and technical requirements
• Develop test case scenarios for functional, system, user acceptance and regression testing as appropriate for the initiative/project.
• Develop and finalize all assigned artifacts and perform as the primary point of contact for all application requirement elicitation needs
• Ensure adherence to quality standards for artifacts, templates, and quality assurance verification
• Provide business operations support as needed
• Assess business operations and processes to identify inefficiencies in procedures, information flows and handoffs, decisions, communications pathways and ways in which systems supporting these can be enhanced
• Employ structured modeling techniques and tools to describe business functions, processes, information and technology designs
• Document As-Is and To-Be process flows for existing and future systems
• Coordinate and facilitate meetings such as business process reviews, requirements, and various status reports
• Organize, facilitate and lead workshops.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college
• 3 years of business analyst experience with Agile Development methodology and familiarity with Sprint and/or Scrum
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to relate tactfully and professionally with customers at all organizational level
• 3 years experience in both Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Visio, Project and PowerPoint)
• Highly organized, energetic, creative, passionate, team player
  
  

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• 3 years project management experience
• 3 years experience crafting business cases
• 3 years experience creating user stories and technical requirements
• Commercial Real Estate experience
• SQL proficiency
• Excellent attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple concurrent 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, and tuition reimbursement.

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.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing