QA Infrastructure & Data Lead

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DIRECT HIRE ROLE - Annual Salary Range: $165k

The QA Infrastructure & Data Lead is accountable for the governance, stability, and continuous improvement of all non-production test environments to ensure secure, compliant, and release-ready systems.

This role oversees end-to-end environment lifecycle management, including configuration control, test data governance, environmental use and data refreshes. The lead ensures alignment with Quality Assurance and Release & Change Management standards to minimize operational, product, and data-related risks.

In addition, this role is responsible for maintaining data integrity and consistency across environments by coordinating controlled test data refresh cycles, validating post-migration data accuracy, and ensuring compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements. Close collaboration with Database, Infrastructure, and Security teams is required to ensure environments are production-representative, audit-ready, and optimized for consistent, reliable, and predictable testing outcomes.

• Broadly applies principles, theories and concepts related to the profession. A seasoned, experienced professional with an in-depth/full understanding of area of specialization.
• May provide recommendations regarding issues outside the bounds of defined procedures and practices. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Wide latitude for decisions within assignments, programs and projects; impact is generally limited to the project or department.
• Acts as a resource to advise and may at times lead the work of lower level professional and/or support employees. Generally represents the department on projects and may perform in a project leadership role.

• Own lifecycle management of Test and Pre-Prod environments
• Maintain environment configuration baselines and version inventory
• Ensure environment readiness before test cycles
• Coordinate provisioning, upgrades, and patching with platform teams
• Monitor environment stability, availability, and performance
• Manage environment scheduling and conflict resolution
• Prevent version drift between QA and Production
• Execute on the QA Test Data Management strategy and roadmap
• Work closely with Release Management, the PMO, Application Services, and other IT areas in design and implementation of an enterprise test data repository to be used as source of test data for application development testing
• Plan, schedule and communicate test system refreshes, time-sliced data refreshes, on-demand test data requests and coordinate with appropriate IT areas for corresponding virtual test environments as needed
• Leverage technical and business expertise to help ensure test data and test environment objectives, goals and requirements are delivered according to stakeholder expectations
• Work independently and communicate with all levels of management in a timely and accurate manner
• Define the test data management architecture and tool strategies
• Deliver, process implementation and oversight of a newly formed Test Data Management service within the QA and Test Management Department
• Manage and establish service levels for the TDM shared service, including transparency through reporting and valuation of service
• Coordinate work of highly decentralized business application teams while implementing demand management operating models that proactively source and manage test data on multiple concurrent projects
• Implement methodologies for automated test data generation, test reusability and data privacy
• Build and maintain a central repository of test data and test environment models across multiple lines of business
• Define and implement the scope of a releases test environment and test data needs
• Maintain and implement the policy framework for Test Data and Environment capabilities
• Develop process of maintaining gold copy of test data sets for programs, projects and releases
• Accountable for department operating procedures, processes and adherence to corporate standards
• Accountable for communication with stakeholders and management
• Accountable for adherence to audit and compliance standards regarding QA practices
• Accountable for identifying and implementing process improvements in alignment with testing framework
• Manage, mentor and coach staff on test data and test environment principles and practices
• Develop and publish KPIs to communicate delivery practices for test data and test environments
• Maintain knowledge of emerging trends and industry best practices
• Support multiple streams of projects of varying complexity
• Create and meet timelines cognizant of business needs and constraints
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills
• Highly self-motivated, driven work ethic, keen attention to detail and exceptional…