Test Environment Manager at Tezza Business Solutions Ltd

Job Purpose

• The Test Environment Manager will be responsible for preventing conflicts and collisions between multiple groups seeking access to limited software resources.

Responsibilities

• Develop process to track test environments required for QA
• Create short-term plans to deliver environments to support sprint-based development
• Coordinate activities of release engineers to automate the setup and configuration of test environments
• Monitor and guarantee uptime of test environments
• Provide ongoing support for test environments
• Communicate test environment availability to project management and quality assurance
• Develop KPIs to track efficacy of test environment delivery efforts
• Resolve conflicts between teams competing for limited testing resources
• Move test environment activities toward a goal of 100% automation
• Provide estimates for onboarding of new projects to test environments
• Design systems to support continuous delivery and adapt test environment management to support on-demand, self-service automation
• Forecast environment requirements based on anticipated future demand from multiple application development teams
• Act as a technical manager to coordinate test environments for multiple application development groups.
• Configure test environments for both isolated subsystems and end-to-end environments using a mixture of cloud-based infrastructure and bare metal systems  for release automation and configuration management.
• Support a continuous release schedule across multiple groups.
• Work with project managers, operations professionals, and senior technical engineering managers to sequence projects for testing on a limited number of testing environments.
• Work closely with release managers and release engineers to track the availability of limited testing resources
• Conduct technical tasks such as deployment and database administration by closely collaborating with engineering resources and database specialists.
• Candidates will be managing the coordination of efforts to configure environments and tracking the status of environment configuration activities.

Person Specification

• B.Sc Degree in Computer Science, Project Management or related fields
• Proven experience as a project manager, Network Engineer or system administrator or QA Engineer.
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders: project management, QA, and engineering management
• Ability to focus on scheduling accuracy with the ability to keep a constantly shifting test environment calendar up to date
• Ability to estimate work effort required to bring test environments to readiness
• Communication skills
• must have demonstrated the ability to understand modern approaches to deployment automation on both cloud-based infrastructure and bare-metal servers.
• Must have an overall grasp of the work-effort involved to setup and configure operating systems, networks, databases, and application servers involved in the creation of end-to-end testing environments.
• Must be knowledgeable about Java, .NET, and a number of dynamic languages all running on applications servers integrated with several relational databases running DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server.
• Demonstrated track record of organizing and tracking the progress of multiple projects across the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to use project planning and forecasting tools.