OpenText ALM Octane Technical Lead
Philadelphia (Onsite)
Introduction
This position involves leading the implementation, administration, integration, and support of the OpenText ALM Octane platform to manage enterprise-wide Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and enable Agile + DevOps practices. The Technical Lead will collaborate with QA teams, Development teams, DevOps engineers, Product Owners, and Business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- ALM Octane Administration:
- Install, configure, and maintain ALM Octane environments
- Manage users, roles, permissions, and security
- Configure and manage workspaces, releases, sprints, epics, features, backlogs, test suites & pipelines
- Monitor platform health and performance
- Handle upgrades and patching
- Enterprise Test Management:
- Lead end-to-end testing processes including manual & automated testing, planning & execution test, regression testing, UAT, SIT, and defect lifecycle management
- Ensure test traceability across requirements
- Integration & Reporting:
- Integrate ALM Octane with Jira and ServiceNow
- Build reporting and analytics for test execution status, defect trends, sprint velocity, quality KPIs, and executive dashboards
Requirements
Core Skills:
- OpenText ALM Octane expertise:
- Shared spaces & workspace administration
- Pipeline & release management
- Workflow & dashboard configuration
- Test, defect & requirements management
- Risk-based testing
- Strong test management leadership experience
- Understanding of Agile & DevOps practices
Technical & Functional Skills:
- ALM tool administration
- Automated & manual testing expertise
- DevOps pipeline awareness
- Reporting and Metrics analysis
- Integration with enterprise tools (Jira, ServiceNow)