• Application Deadline:
• Position: Test Environment Manager


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer  , Project Management 
  

Job Purpose

• The Test Environment Manager will be responsible for preventing conflicts and collisions between multiple groups seeking access to limited software resources.

Responsibilities

• Develop process to track test environments required for QA


• Create short-term plans to deliver environments to support sprint-based development


• Coordinate activities of release engineers to automate the setup and configuration of test environments


• Monitor and guarantee uptime of test environments


• Provide ongoing support for test environments


• Communicate test environment availability to project management and quality assurance


• 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 of new projects to test environments


• Design systems to support continuous delivery and adapt test environment management to support on-demand, self-service automation


• Forecast environment requirements based on anticipated future demand from multiple application development teams


• Act as a technical manager to coordinate test environments for multiple application development groups.


• Configure test environments for both isolated subsystems and end-to-end environments using a mixture of cloud-based infrastructure and bare metal systems  for release automation and configuration management.


• Support a continuous release schedule across multiple groups.


• Work with project managers, operations professionals, and senior technical engineering managers to sequence projects for testing on a limited number of testing environments.


• Work closely with release managers and release engineers to track the availability of limited testing resources


• Conduct technical tasks such as deployment and database administration by closely collaborating with engineering resources and database specialists.


• Candidates will be managing the coordination of efforts to configure environments and tracking the status of environment configuration activities.

Person Specification

• B.Sc Degree in Computer Science, Project Management or related fields


• Proven experience as a project manager, Network Engineer or system administrator or QA Engineer.


• Ability to communicate with stakeholders: project management, QA, and engineering management


• Ability to focus on scheduling accuracy with the ability to keep a constantly shifting test environment calendar up to date


• Ability to estimate work effort required to bring test environments to readiness


• Communication skills


• must have demonstrated the ability to understand modern approaches to deployment automation on both cloud-based infrastructure and bare-metal servers.


• Must have an overall grasp of the work-effort involved to setup and configure operating systems, networks, databases, and application servers involved in the creation of end-to-end testing environments.


• Must be knowledgeable about Java, .NET, and a number of dynamic languages all running on applications servers integrated with several relational databases running DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server.


• Demonstrated track record of organizing and tracking the progress of multiple projects across the software development lifecycle.


• Ability to use project planning and forecasting tools.