Environment Strategist

Environment Strategist

Fulltime

• Accountable for tracking completion of retrofits across lower test environments, including issues resolution , for projects dependent on or requiring to be retrofitted into Self Serve bundle releases.
• Responsible for monitoring the creation of retrofit JIRA tickets , tracking dependencies across projects and working in close collaboration with project managers ,
  Dev and QA leads.
• Responsible for tracking certificates coming up for renewal in the lower test environments, working with the Dev
  leads to ensure JIRA tickets have been raised.

• Daily health checks on retrofits and certificate renewals , planned and completed, across all lower environments (
  SITs /
  PERF )
• Engagement of environment management team for triaging of environment blockers
• Communication of retrofits status across all projects impacting or being impacted by a Self Serve bundle release
• Communication of certificates renewals completed across all lower environments
• Coordination to resolve end-to-end environment related issues
• Attendance of weekly release management meeting with the goal to track any changes in projects environment allocation and/or issues
• Health checks after scheduled deployments (retrofits or certs), confirmed validation with Dev/QA teams
  
  Manage and standardize environment retrofits
• Further improvements on environment monitoring and logging
  • Identify gaps
  • Alerting in SIT
  • Additional automation
• Environment provisioning and management
  • Tooling
  • Virtualization
  • API mocking

• 5 + years systems experience as a Quality Assurance (QA) professional, end-to-end test/
  release lead
• Possesses an understanding of test environments, from infrastructure
  topology to application layers
• Possesses a deep understanding of SDLC ,
  Agile and QA methodologies
• Demonstrates knowledge of industry methodology standards (e.g., Capability Maturity Model Integration (
  CMMI ) and International Organization for Standardization (
  ISO ))
• Worked with Dev, Build, QA teams for the release process

• Possesses good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrates good leadership management skills
• Possesses an ability to work with multiple resources across multiple projects high in complexity and of strategic importance
• Is able to manage change and keep people accountable to change management framework
• Is able to effectively resolve and/or escape issues when required
• Is able to work independently

• Bachelor’s degree or post-Secondary diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.