QA Automation Engineer at City of New York
New York, NY
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Jul 22, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A QA Automation Engineer role within New York City's Department of Finance, focused on building and maintaining an enterprise-wide test automation framework across a portfolio of financial, property, and AI-driven applications. Day-to-day work spans writing and executing automated test scripts, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, conducting performance and backend database testing, and mentoring teammates. Suits experienced QA professionals comfortable with tools such as Selenium, Appium, JMeter, and SQL.
Senior level · 4+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 190 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 140–240
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $133,411 (middle half $102,189–$162,640).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is hybrid, not fully remote — up to 2 days per week remote is permitted under the City's Remote Work Pilot Program; remote is therefore set to false.
The minimum degree requirement is a bachelor's degree OR equivalent education/experience, so no hard degree gate is set.
The 4-year experience floor comes from the civil service qualification standard ('four years of satisfactory full-time experience'), which maps to total years of experience.
Selenium, Appium, JUnit, and Azure are listed in the responsibilities section with firm language ('Develop and execute test scripts using tools like…'); while 'like' could imply alternatives, these are the only tools named and the language is directive rather than aspirational, so they are treated as required.
LoadRunner and JMeter appear together as examples of performance testing tools ('tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, etc.') in a supporting-role context; both are captured as preferred with each other as an alternative.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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