P/T Quality Assurance Auditor

City of New York • New York, NY

7d • $41 - $88

About The Position

The Strategic Technology Division (STD) is seeking IT Quality Assurance Auditors for Application and Product Delivery. This role specializes in ensuring enterprise software applications and product initiatives achieve the highest standards of quality assurance while adhering to Secure SDLC (SSDLC) best practices and governance requirements. The role focuses on rigorous quality validation, defect prevention, and process excellence across development, testing, and deployment phases for applications and products spanning multiple teams and vendors. The mission of the New York City Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in New York City by working in partnership with the community to enforce the law, preserve peace, protect the people, reduce fear, and maintain order. The department strives to foster a safe and fair city through the strategic deployment of resources, focusing on both crime prevention and addressing quality-of-life concerns while building lasting community relationships.

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 '1', '2', or '3' 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. This includes 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: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level