Senior QA Automation Engineer – Public Sector Impact

TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Senior Test Automation Engineer at the Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) designs, builds, and validates high-quality test automation for internal city applications and public services. This role blends hands-on engineering with leadership to ensure releases meet functional, accessibility, and reliability standards before going live.

Based in Brooklyn, NY, the position requires collaboration with product, engineering, and business teams, experience with Azure DevOps, Selenium, and API

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, plus relevant IT automation/QA experience.
• Eight years of experience in IT automation engineering, monitoring engineering, or infrastructure management.
• Equivalent combination of education/experience to meet minimum qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to understand requirements and contribute to early-stage planning.
• Review project documentation, provide actionable QA feedback, and participate in sign-off processes.
• Develop test approaches aligned with standards and driven by architecture and requirements.
• Maintain QA artifacts including Test Strategy, Test Plans, test cases, automated scripts, and defect analytics.
• Execute manual functional testing when needed and triage defects with development and support.
• Maintain test cases/scripts in ALM tools such as Azure DevOps with full traceability.
• Design, develop, debug and execute automated test scripts in CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor team members in adopting automated testing frameworks.
• Create and validate test data sets; analyze results for accuracy and completeness.
• Incorporate accessibility testing standards into all relevant test activities.
• Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned.

Skills

QA Automation

Selenium

Java

API Testing

JSON/XML/CSV

Analytical Skills

Communication

Independent Working

CI/CD

Education

Baccalaureate degree in CS/Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

Postman

SoapUI

CI/CD

Job description

The Senior Test Automation Engineer at the Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) designs, builds, and validates high-quality test automation for internal city applications and public services. This role blends hands-on engineering with leadership to ensure releases meet functional, accessibility, and reliability standards before going live.

Based in Brooklyn, NY, the position requires collaboration with product, engineering, and business teams, experience with Azure DevOps, Selenium, and API