TEST ENVIRONMENT MANAGER

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• Scheduling the use of Test Environments based on the needs of all stakeholders
• Manage the re-configuration of Test Environments as per the schedule, coordinating cross functional resources
• Communicating effectively with project teams, resource management teams, IT management and executive groups and all project stakeholders
• Escalating resource contention appropriately
• Supporting the development of project plans and schedules
• Collaborating with the team to accomplish team initiatives, create and improve team and organizational processes Develop a process to track all the test environments.
• Create short-term plans to deliver environments to support sprint-based development
• Coordinate activities of release engineers to automate the setup and configure the test environments
• Monitor and guarantee uptime for test environments
• Provide ongoing support for test environments
• Communicate availability to project management and testing teams
• 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 new projects to test environments
• Ensure all components needed for testing exists in each environment from an end to end perspective
• Design systems to support continuous delivery and adapt test environment management to support on-demand, self-service automaton
• Forecast environment requirements based on anticipated future demand from multiple application development teams
Qualifications
• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to motivate team members and facilitate change in the organization
• Expert knowledge of project management methodologies, processes and tools
• Working general IT system technical knowledge for various platform environments
• Expert knowledge of scheduling and resource management and conflict resolution
• Familiarity with networking, firewalls, databases, file systems, mainframe and midrange systems
• Successful track record of effectively managing multiple simultaneous technical activities to completion
• Experience coordinating IT infrastructure-related projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to communicate with all levels of organization
• Solid leadership, motivational, interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to facilitate discussions, identify, analyze and resolve issues
• Ability to meet deadlines, schedules and budgeted costs
• Able to work independently
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, results-driven individual
• Excellent customer service skills
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Project
• Bachelor's Degree and at least 5-8+ years of experience in technology project management (equivalent combination of education and experience may qualify)
• Experience in Autosys or other job scheduling tool
• Experience with troubleshooting test or Autosys batch failures and experience coordinating with developers to fix the issues.
• Experience with regression, functional, and system testing procedures. Experience with development flows and functionality in each release to support rapid continuous delivery.
• Must be able to effectively communicate status

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.