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Test Environment Manager

Our client is a highly regarded Insurance and Financial Services Multinational with significant experience in the Irish Market. They now have an immediate requirement for a Test Environment Manager to join the Operations team at their Dublin office.

This is a permanent role that comes with a very attractive benefits package that includes (But is not limited to) Hybrid working model, excellent city centre location, Exceptional Company Pension, , Health Insurance Allowance, Income Protection Scheme, optional Specified Illness Scheme and Top-Class Employee Assistance Programme.

Responsibilities of role:

• Develop process to track environments required for QA

• Coordinating Test environments usage/scheduling for Release trains (once the SAFE pilot

• completes and is rolled out to the wider teams) and resolving any potential conflicts with

• common env usage, ensuring most efficient usage of our test infrastructure

• Ensure E2E test environments are populated / refreshed in a consistent well managed way

• (i.e work with project teams using environments to ensure refreshes are done in a consistent way – particularly where we may have M:N relationship between some test environments

• Ensure transparent view on versions of code deployed on specific environments

• Coordinate the activities of Devops team members to automate the setup and configuration

• of test environments

• Work with CTS and the Delivery teams to ensure any Test infrastructure requirements are

• Delivered for a specific deliverable

• Working with the Delivery teams to ensure automation smoke tests defined and can be run

• on new env instance to confirm env is stable and ready for team usage

• Work with the delivery teams to focus on automated Test env deployments to eliminate

• manual deployment steps

• Communicate test environment availability to project management

• Resolve conflicts between teams competing for environment usage

• Document and optimise the Path to production for each team from a test environment

• perspective

• Implementation of effective test environment management tools – e.g. what tooling do we

• utilise to manage the test environment usage

• Ensuring correct data sanitization is being used in all test environments

• Working with teams to understand if specific test environments need additional resourcing

• to meet any non-functional testing requirements

• Liaising with each delivery teams to understand their current test environment setup and

• then work with the teams to optimise these

• Ensuring unused environments are shut down / cleared out – i.e. to ensure we do not incur

• ongoing charges – or expose data – for unnecessary environments

• Become the central POC for any test env requests

• Define and forecast environment requirements based on the anticipated future demand

• from the wider delivery teams

• Manage and report on risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies of test environments

Essential Candidate Requirements:

• Third Level Qualification in Computer Science, IT

• 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role

• Extensive knowledge of best of breed practices in relation to test environment management.

• ITIL Foundation certification

• Solid MS Azure knowledge

• Agile testing patterns

• Significant experience with Continuous Integration and Deployments tools in a DevOps

• environment such as Jenkins, GitLabCI, Azure Pipelines

• Hands-on experience of the maintenance and provisioning of Test Environments

• Demonstrable track record optimising Test Environment usage in an enterprise level

• organisation across several Delivery teams

• Experience working with on prem Java technology stacks and Azure cloud technologies

• Extensive experience using project and program planning tools to create, manage and track

• test environments usage

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience with Agile and Waterfall release management

• SDLC experience within an Agile Environment

To apply:

For more information on this role, please contact Níall on +353 1 8690258 or +353 87 384 5327.

To apply directly, please send current CV along with brief cover letter through this site