Quality Assurance Test Automation Engineer - Specialist 2

Client Name: City of New York

Start Date: May 22, 2025

End Date: May 20, 2026

• 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 defect, 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:
  

1. Propose, prepare, and execute test scenarios to reproduce production issues in non production environments
   
2. 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.
  
• Participate in knowledge sharing with other QA team members.
  
• Maintain up to date documentation and ensure that it is entered into appropriate repositories and systems of record.
  

Requirements

• 8 years of overall software testing experience.
  
• 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.
  

• 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.