MyCity QA Test Automation Engineer - Specialist 2

Client Name: City of New York

Start Date: July 07, 2025

End Date: July 05, 2026

Contract Length (in weeks): 52 weeks

The successful candidate will serve as a QA Test Automation Engineer reporting to the Applications division.

TASKS: .

• Work with project managers, business analysts, development teams, as well as the business customer to contribute to the process of gathering and reviewing requirements and ensuring that they are testable
  
• Participate in requirements elicitation and generation
  
• Review project documents and provide QA comments and sign off
  
• Participate in development of the test approach based on established standards and the analysis of design documentation and requirements
  
• Contribute to the design of the following deliverables: Test Strategy & Test Plan, Detailed Test Cases, Test Scripts, Traceability Matrix, test estimates, progress reports for test execution, various defects, and statistical data reports, etc.
  
• Assist or execute manual functional testing where applicable, log and assign defects and keep track of the defect status
  
• Work with developers and support teams to resolve defects and environment issues
  
• Load and maintain requirements and test cases in Quality Center and/or other Test/SDLC management systems and/or Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) systems e.g. Azure DevOps.
  
• Execute and track testing process using Azure DevOps.
  
• Assist with development and execution of automated test scripts
  
• Acquire and create test data and analyze/verify data
  
• Participate in application troubleshooting and resolving production issues which may include but are not limited to:
  
• Propose, prepare and execute test scenarios to reproduce production issues in non-production environments
  
• Research problems, and propose, design, execute, and document test cases to identify potential issues and to prevent application outages and production issues
  
• Report test results to management in timely manner
  
• Assist the support team in activities related to application deployment where applicable
  
• Participate in environment maintenance activities when QA services are required
  
• Maintain up to date documentation and ensure that it is entered into appropriate repositories and systems of record
  

Requirements

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered

• At least 8 years of overall software testing experience
  
• A minimum of 7 years of QA Automation with experience with programming languages/frameworks such as Java and Selenium Webdriver
  
• 3+ years of solid hands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS and knowledge of various cloud services
  
• Understanding of API Gateways, proxies, and concepts of securing API endpoints (e.g., rate limiting, API tokens)
  
• Experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and no-SQL (e.g., MongoDB) databases.
  
• Experience with Git, Azure DevOps Pipelines or equivalent CI/CD tools
  
• A team player with excellent communication skills, both written and oral, interpersonal, organizational skills, and problem-solving ability to work with customers and other non-technical end users on complex issues
  
• Has a high degree of responsibility and can work as an independent contributor to accomplish program goals
  
• Must have sound technical writing skills and be able to produce clear documentation
  

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Experience using Azure services for App Service, Logic Apps, Blob Storage, Data Lake, etc.
  
• Knowledge of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
  
• Experience with Azure Monitoring services
  
• Experience with Microfocus Loadrunner