SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE AUTOMATION ENGINEER - City of New York - New York, NY
City of New York
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The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS is committed to preventing and addressing homelessness in New York City by employing a variety of innovative strategies to help families and individuals successfully exit shelter and return to self-sufficiency as quickly as possible.
Information Technology Services (ITS) is DSS's technology services organization. ITS mission is to support the daily, emergent, and long-term needs of both agencies. ITS creates and enhances the technology infrastructure and computer applications that support HRA and DHS and develops applications, including a variety of client eligibility and recertification systems, case management systems, housing systems, employment/work engagement services, revenue producing computer matches, claiming systems, and personnel systems.
The Office of Enterprise Solutions Engineering within ITS consists of five divisions - DHS Technology, HRA Technology, DSS Technology, External Agency Technology, and Quality Assurance - that supports the analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of hundreds of web and mobile applications, which run on Linux and Windows Servers and are hosted in a hybrid cloud and on premises data center. Additionally, this office maintains agency-wide Imaging repository containing over a billion client-related documents.
The DHS technology unit within the Office of Business Solutions is responsible for creating and/or purchasing Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) web and mobile applications required to support the agency's mission of preventing and addressing homelessness. The unit is also dedicated to the testing of administ