P/T Quality Assurance Auditor

City of New York • New York City, NY

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About The Position

The Strategic Technology Division (STD) of the New York City Police Department is seeking IT Quality Assurance Auditors for Application and Product Delivery. This role is crucial for ensuring that enterprise software applications and product initiatives meet the highest quality assurance standards, while also adhering to Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) best practices and governance requirements. The position focuses on rigorous quality validation, defect prevention, and process excellence throughout the development, testing, and deployment phases for applications and products managed by multiple teams and vendors.

Requirements

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
• An associate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
• Education and/or experience which is equivalent to the above.

Responsibilities

• Audit large programs across multiple divisions and vendors for Agile/hybrid methodology compliance, governance, and standardization.
• Conduct regular user access audits across enterprise applications to ensure that user permissions align with current job status, duties, and department policies, including revoking access for retired, separated, or transferred personnel.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines enforce security policies and automated testing.
• Review TFS & Azure DevOps pipelines, repositories, and configurations for secure coding standards, SSDLC adherence, and consistent delivery practices.
• Verify Secure SDLC (SSDLC) compliance including threat modeling, secure coding standards, SAST/DAST scanning, and security testing.
• Verify vendor deliverables align with organizational coding standards, testing requirements, methodology expectations, and documentation templates.
• Review and approve test strategies, test plans, test cases, and run books to guarantee comprehensive quality validation.
• Ensure release management, deployment validation, and post-production monitoring meet quality and security benchmarks.
• Assess testing coverage (unit, integration, system, UAT, regressions) meets organizational, methodology, and regulatory standards.
• Oversee defect lifecycle management from identification through triage, prioritization, root cause analysis, and closure verification.
• Examine design reviews, sprint ceremonies, and retrospectives for effectiveness and standardization.
• Validate requirements traceability, ensuring business needs are testable, complete, and free of ambiguity.
• Identify quality risks, process gaps, and standardization issues, providing prioritized recommendations and remediation tracking.
• Produce quality-focused audit reports, dashboards, and executive summaries highlighting defects trends, code coverage metrics, security scan results, and improvement opportunities.
• Conduct periodic and risk-based audits of high-impact, multi-vendor programs and platforms.

Benefits

• health insurance for the employee and his or her spouse or domestic partner and unemancipated children under age 26
• union benefits such as dental and vision coverage
• paid annual leave and sick leave
• paid holidays
• a pension
• optional savings and pre-tax programs such as Deferred Compensation, IRA, and a flexible spending account

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree