Full Job Description
The Senior Test Automation Engineer plays a key role in designing, building, and validating high-quality test automation for both internal city applications and public-facing digital services. This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic quality leadership, ensuring that releases meet rigorous functional, accessibility, and reliability standards before going live.
Responsibilities will include:
-Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to understand requirements and contribute to early-stage planning and scoping.
-Review project documentation, provide actionable QA feedback, and participate in formal sign-off processes.
-Develop test approaches aligned with organizational standards and driven by analysis of system architecture, design documents, and requirements.
-Contribute to and maintain core QA artifacts, including Test Strategy and Test Plans, detailed test cases, automated test scripts, traceability matrices, test estimates, execution progress reports, and defect analytics.
-Execute manual functional testing when needed, log and triage defects, and drive issues to resolution in collaboration with development and support teams.
-Maintain and evolve test cases and scripts within ALM tools such as Azure DevOps, ensuring full traceability across the SDLC.
-Execute, monitor, and optimize testing processes using SDLC/ALM management systems.
-Design, develop, debug, and execute automated test scripts integrated into CI/CD pipelines; proactively improve test automation coverage and reliability.
-Mentor and support team members in adopting and executing automated testing frameworks.
-Create, manage, and validate test data sets; analyze data results for accuracy and completeness.
-Incorporate accessibility testing standards and practices into all relevant test activities.
-Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned.
HOURS/SHIFT
Day - Due to the necessary technical duties of this position in a 24/7 operation, candidate may be required to work various shifts such as weekends and/or nights/evenings.
WORK LOCATION
Brooklyn, NY
TO APPLY
Please go to www.cityjobs/jobs/search and search for Job ID #799311
* Interested applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration
SUBMISSION OF A RESUME IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INTERVIEW
APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT APPROVAL
IT AUTOMATION AND MONITORING E - 95712
Qualifications
1. A baccalaureate degree in computer science, engineering or a related field from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT automation engineering, monitoring engineering, management of infrastructure; or
2. Eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT automation engineering, monitoring engineering, management of infrastructure;
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above.
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