QA Infrastructure & Data Lead

Overview

Tek Wissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state’s electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America.

Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership‑based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor‑owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.

• 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
• This position will be responsible for executing on the QA Test Data Management strategy and roadmap
• This person will 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
• This position will also be responsible for planning, scheduling and communicating test system refreshes, time‑sliced data refreshes, on‑demand test data requests and coordinating with appropriate IT areas for corresponding virtual test environments as needed
• This position requires a highly motivated individual who will leverage his/her technical and business expertise to help ensure test data and test environment objectives, goals and requirements are delivered according to stakeholder expectations
• The individual must be able to work independently and communicate with all levels of management in a timely and accurate manner
• Responsible for defining the test data management architecture and tool strategies
• Responsible for delivery, 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 sources and manages test data on multiple concurrent projects
• Implement methodologies for automated test data generation, test reusability and data privacy
• Responsible for building and maintaining a central repository of test data and test environment models across multiple lines of business
• Responsible for defining and implementing the scope of a releases test environment and test data needs
• Accountable for the maintenance and implementation of the policy framework for Client’s Test Data and Environment capabilities
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