Test Environment Manager

Role Overview

Test Environment Manager at TAWANTECH. This role leads 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.

Role Purpose

Own the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise test environments, combining project management, infrastructure coordination, and environment governance to ensure test environments are delivered on schedule, properly configured, and aligned with business and project objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Environment Lifecycle & Governance

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise test environments.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise Environment Roadmap and Capacity Plan.
• Ensure compliance with Change Management, ITIL processes, and security standards.

Planning & Coordination

• Act as the primary point of contact for all environment-related activities across projects.
• 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.
• Coordinate application deployments and infrastructure changes with Release Management.

Resource & Capacity Management

• Manage environment booking, allocation, scheduling, and conflict resolution across multiple concurrent projects.
• Monitor environment utilization and optimize resource allocation.
• Track project milestones and ensure environment delivery aligns with project timelines.

Infrastructure Readiness

• Ensure infrastructure readiness before SIT, UAT, Performance Testing, and Pre-Production.
• Manage dependencies between applications, middleware, databases, network, and infrastructure services.
• Coordinate environment refreshes, database cloning, and test data management.

Risk & Issue Management

• Lead risk identification, issue management, and mitigation planning related to environment availability.

Technical Leadership

• Lead technical discussions with infrastructure architects and engineering teams.
• Drive automation initiatives for provisioning, monitoring, and environment validation.

Reporting & Insights

• Prepare executive reports, KPIs, dashboards, and environment status reports.

Qualifications & 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.

Skills & Competencies

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

• Oracle
• SQL Server
• WebSphere
• MQ
• API Gateways

Monitoring

• Dynatrace
• Splunk
• Grafana
• Prometheus