Environment Specialist

Dawn InfoTek Inc.; Greater Toronto Area; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative IT consulting firm is seeking an IT Release Specialist to join their dynamic team. This role involves ensuring the smooth operation of testing environments, managing retrofits, and coordinating with various teams to resolve issues. You will play a crucial role in maintaining the quality of releases for a major bank, utilizing your expertise in QA methodologies and Agile practices. If you are a proactive problem-solver with strong leadership skills, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a QA professional with experience in end-to-end testing.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, and QA standards.

Responsibilities

• Track completion of retrofits and certificate renewals in test environments.
• Communicate status updates across projects and manage environment issues.
• Attend release management meetings and perform health checks post-deployments.

Skills

Quality Assurance (QA)

Agile

SDLC

Test Environments

Issue Resolution

Communication Skills

Leadership Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering

Post-secondary diploma in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Job description

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Dawn InfoTek Inc. is a professional IT consulting team that partners with major financial institutions, investment firms, and government sectors. We are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge consulting services and recruiting for all levels of IT positions for our clients.

We are currently seeking competent individuals to fulfill the role of IT Release Specialist to join our dynamic team for our client, one of the major banks.

Overview of the Role:

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

Responsibilities:

• Perform daily health checks on retrofits and certificate renewals, planned and completed, across all lower environments (SITs/PERF).
• Engage the environment management team for triaging environment blockers.
• Communicate retrofit status across all projects impacting or impacted by a Self Serve bundle release.
• Communicate certificate renewal statuses across all lower environments.
• Coordinate to resolve end-to-end environment-related issues.
• Attend weekly release management meetings to track project environment allocations and issues.
• Perform health checks after scheduled deployments (retrofits or certs) and validate with Dev/QA teams.
• Manage and standardize environment retrofits.
• Implement further improvements on environment monitoring and logging.
• Identify gaps and implement alerting in SIT.
• Develop additional automation and manage environment provisioning and tooling.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of systems experience as a Quality Assurance (QA) professional, end-to-end test/release lead.
• Understanding of test environments, from infrastructure topology to application layers.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, Agile, and QA methodologies.
• Knowledge of industry standards (e.g., CMMI, ISO).
• Experience working with Dev, Build, and QA teams for the release process.

Soft Skills Required:

• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Ability to work with multiple resources across complex projects of strategic importance.
• Ability to manage change and uphold change management frameworks.
• Effective issue resolution and escalation skills.
• Ability to work independently.

Education:

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

Seniority Level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

• Full-time

Job Function

• Other

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting