Required Technical Skills
Project & Service Management
- Project Management
- Environment Management
- Release Management
- Capacity Planning
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Change Management
- ITIL Framework
Infrastructure Knowledge
- Windows Server
- Linux
- VMware / Virtualization
- Storage & SAN
- Network Fundamentals
- Load Balancers
- DNS
- Firewalls
- SSL Certificates
- Active Directory
- Backup & Recovery
Platforms
- OpenShift
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Cloud Platforms (AWS / Azure preferred)
DevOps & Automation
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- Git
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Infrastructure as Code (preferred)
Database & Middleware Awareness
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- WebSphere
- MQ
- API Gateways
Monitoring
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- Grafana
- Prometheus
Preferred Experience
- 8–12+ years of experience in Infrastructure, Technical Project Management, Environment Management, or Release Management.
- Minimum 5 years managing enterprise non-production environments.
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Experience coordinating Infrastructure, Network, Database, Middleware, Security, and Application teams.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent enterprise projects.
- Banking or financial services experience is highly preferred.
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Test Environment Manager to lead the planning, governance, and operational management of enterprise non-production environments supporting application development, integration testing, user acceptance testing, performance testing, and pre-production activities. This role combines Project Management, Infrastructure Coordination, and Environment Governance to ensure test environments are delivered on schedule, properly configured, and aligned with business and project objectives.
The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background in infrastructure, excellent project management skills, and proven experience coordinating cross-functional teams including Infrastructure, Network, Database, Middleware, Security, DevOps, and Application Development.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise test environments.
- Act as the primary point of contact for all environment-related activities across projects.
- Develop and maintain the enterprise Environment Roadmap and Capacity Plan.
- Lead environment planning meetings with Project Managers, Technical Leads, QA, Infrastructure, and Release Management teams.
- Coordinate environment provisioning across Server, Storage, Network, Database, Middleware, Security, and Cloud teams.
- Ensure infrastructure readiness before SIT, UAT, Performance Testing, and Pre-Production.
- Manage environment booking, allocation, scheduling, and conflict resolution across multiple concurrent projects.
- Coordinate application deployments and infrastructure changes with Release Management.
- Manage dependencies between applications, middleware, databases, network, and infrastructure services.
- Track project milestones and ensure environment delivery aligns with project timelines.
- Lead risk identification, issue management, and mitigation planning related to environment availability.
- Coordinate environment refreshes, database cloning, and test data management.
- Monitor environment utilization and optimize resource allocation.
- Lead technical discussions with infrastructure architects and engineering teams.
- Prepare executive reports, KPIs, dashboards, and environment status reports.
- Drive automation initiatives for provisioning, monitoring, and environment validation.
- Ensure compliance with Change Management, ITIL processes, and security standards.
