Engineer III – Test Environment Management

Role Overview

• Lead the design and development of test environment strategy and plans to support initiatives within assigned domains.
• Identify the environment’s requirements to effectively support the overall release cycles.
• Analyze existing environments and identify requirement gaps and immaturities.
• Develop and execute a plan to resolve, driving to closure in a timely manner.
• Lead collaboration with Test Delivery and UAT Test Coordination teams to accommodate Test environment needs for QE engineers and UAT testers.
• Collaborate with Application Support, Internal Development, and Data Integration teams and external vendor teams in setting up the test environments for product upgrades/releases.
• Interact with project managers, Test Delivery and Governance managers to sequence projects for testing in a limited number of testing environments.
• Manage the coordination of efforts to configure environments and tracking the status of environment configuration activities.
• Collaborate with the infrastructure team to configure a database or set up and configure several VMs to facilitate testing through understanding the technical requirements to set up test environments.
• Prioritize Environment Build & Change Requests.
• Build, Reserve, Refresh, Reuse & Reclaim environments for project use as a mechanism to optimize our infrastructure resources.
• Facilitate and resolve any environmental contentions/conflicts between the stakeholders.
• Setup environment configurations, create environment maps, and generate environment matrix using a Test Environment Management tool.
• Provide details on progress on the various environment requests for several applications and Data integration processes.
• Monitor & Report environment set up progress.
• Use project planning and forecasting tools.
• Work together with Test Data Management resources to ensure the test data is masked and ready for test execution.
• Provide subject matter expertise in compliance review meetings.
• Support a continuous release schedule across multiple groups.
• Maintain advanced knowledge of the work effort involved to set up and configuring operating systems, networks, databases, and application servers involved in the creation of end-to-end testing environments.
• Lead Test Environment/Data management teams.
• Lead, guide, and train other resources.
• Perform any other duties as required to ensure Health Plan operations and department business needs are successful.

Requirements

• A minimum of eight (8) years of Information systems and Quality Engineering experiences.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience working in Test Environment/Test Data Management
• Experience working with various Product Vendors.
• Demonstrated ability in Design and developing test environment strategies and plans
• Demonstrated track record of organizing and tracking the progress of multiple projects across the software development lifecycle
• Have experience communicating with management on topics including project timelines, contingency plans, environment budgets, and resource allocation
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management or similar technical field from an accredited institution required

Benefits

• CalPERS retirement 457(b) option with a contribution match
• Generous paid time off
• vacation, holidays, sick
• State of the art fitness center on-site
• Medical Insurance with Dental and Vision
• Paid life insurance for employees with additional options
• Short-term, and long-term disability options
• Pet care insurance
• Flexible Spending Account – Health Care/Childcare
• Wellness programs that promote a healthy work-life balance
• Career advancement opportunities and professional development
• Competitive salary with annual merit increase
• Team bonus opportunities