Quality Assurance Talent Community

About the role

NYSTEC is a nonprofit technology consulting company, advising agencies, organizations, institutions, and businesses since 1996. We’re independent and vendor-neutral, so we have our clients’ best interests at heart. At NYSTEC, we know that we succeed when individuals and teams flourish personally and professionally, so our benefits and perks support that mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate business requirements and project deliverables to ensure clarity, compliance, and alignment with objectives.
• Develop tailored plans to validate processes, systems, or programs against client standards.
• Audit functionality, compliance, and overall effectiveness through testing, audits, or structured evaluations.
• Identify gaps or risks, document findings, and support resolving those issues to strengthen outcomes.
• Ensure that deliverables meet client expectations, regulatory compliance, and performance standards.
• Work with stakeholders across functions to communicate results, mitigate risks, and improve processes.
• Provide actionable reporting, documentation, and recommendations to support continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Expertise in quality assurance, compliance review, or program evaluation.
• Ability to analyze requirements, processes, and deliverables.
• Documentation skills for creating test cases, audit checklists, or evaluation reports.
• Effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders across technical and nontechnical teams.
• Attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proficiency with documentation and reporting tools (SharePoint, Word, Excel, dashboards).

Advanced Qualifications

• Familiarity with issue tracking and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Microsoft Azure).
• Data validation skills, including Structured Query Language (SQL) queries, application programming interface (API) testing, and dashboard reporting.
• Background in Agile/Scrum or other delivery methodologies.
• Software testing experience across functions, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) phases.
• Understanding of compliance frameworks (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA], International Organization for Standardization [ISO], National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST]) and regulatory standards.

Pay

Anticipated opportunities may fall within a salary range of $60,407-$145,271 per year. When determining compensation, we analyze and carefully consider several factors, including position level, skill set, experience, location, and job-related qualifications.