How do I generate Defect Reports in JIRA that shows Defect Status and Assigned to Group?

[Alay Tolia]

Issues in JIRA have an assignee and reporter fields. However, I am not seeing where we can define the Group to which the assignee belongs. We are interested in running reports where we can generate how many issues or defects are assigned to and owned by which group, and who is the Group owner. It is not practical that we find issues or defects for individuals in a large organization where we are looking at the Group and Group Owner level for senior management level reporting. 

[Gregor Kasmann_Actonic]

Jira doesn't support "Assignee group" fields which related to the default "Assignee" field.

Anyway, you can easily find all issues assigned to some group using JQL like:

assignee IN membersOf("Support")

[Alay Tolia]

Thanks, but then can we create custom groups in JIRA e.g. Web Developers, Micro Service Developers, Quality Engineers?

[Gregor Kasmann_Actonic]

Yes, of course you can create as many groups as you want. But you cannot use it the same way as "Assignee".