QA Infrastructure & Data Lead

SGS Consulting; Austin (TX); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SGS Consulting seeks an experienced QA infrastructure lead in Austin to own end-to-end lifecycle management of QA, test, and pre-production environments. You will drive configuration control, data management, and environment readiness in collaboration with infra, Release Management, PMO, and application teams.

Responsibilities include governance, data privacy controls, KPI reporting, and continuous improvement of QA infrastructure.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT operations, QA operations, or release management.
• 3+ years of experience managing non-production environments and test data.

Aufgaben

• Own end-to-end lifecycle management of QA, test, and pre-production environments.
• Ensure configuration control, version management, and prevention of environment drift.
• Coordinate provisioning, upgrades, patching, and environment readiness with infrastructure teams.
• Manage test environment scheduling, usage, and conflict resolution across teams.
• Oversee test data management strategy, including data refresh cycles and governance.
• Maintain data integrity, consistency, and compliance across non-production environments.
• Develop and maintain enterprise test data repositories and reusable datasets.
• Implement test data automation, synthetic data generation, and data privacy controls.
• Collaborate with Release Management, PMO, and Application teams on testing requirements.
• Ensure audit, compliance, and regulatory adherence for QA and test environments.
• Define KPIs and reporting metrics for QA environment and test data services.
• Lead process improvement initiatives for QA infrastructure and test data operations.
• Monitor environment performance, stability, and availability using observability tools.
• Support CI/CD pipeline integration and deployment validation activities.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to QA and infrastructure teams.
• Communicate technical concepts and environment status to stakeholders and leadership.

Kenntnisse

QA infra

Test env mgmt

Release governance

Test data mgmt

SDLC/STLC

CI/CD tools

IaC

Monitoring tools

Version control

Cloud/hybrid infra

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

8+ years IT ops/QA/releases

3+ years non-prod envs/TD

Enterprise QA infra exp

DevOps exposure

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

Job Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end lifecycle management of QA, test, and pre-production environments
• Ensure configuration control, version management, and prevention of environment drift
• Coordinate provisioning, upgrades, patching, and environment readiness with infrastructure teams
• Manage test environment scheduling, usage, and conflict resolution across teams
• Oversee test data management strategy, including data refresh cycles and governance
• Maintain data integrity, consistency, and compliance across non-production environments
• Develop and maintain enterprise test data repositories and reusable datasets
• Implement test data automation, synthetic data generation, and data privacy controls
• Collaborate with Release Management, PMO, and Application teams on testing requirements
• Ensure audit, compliance, and regulatory adherence for QA and test environments
• Define KPIs and reporting metrics for QA environment and test data services
• Lead process improvement initiatives for QA infrastructure and test data operations
• Monitor environment performance, stability, and availability using observability tools
• Support CI/CD pipeline integration and deployment validation activities
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to QA and infrastructure teams
• Communicate technical concepts and environment status to stakeholders and leadership

Skills:

• Strong experience in QA infrastructure, test environment management, and release governance
• Expertise in test data management (TDM) and environment lifecycle operations
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, STLC, and change management processes
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Oracle, and relational databases
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, etc.)
• Experience with monitoring tools like Splunk or Dynatrace
• Knowledge of ServiceNow, JIRA, and test management tools (e.g., qTest)
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible and deployment validation frameworks
• Strong understanding of cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments
• Experience with version control, deployments, and environment governance
• Knowledge of synthetic data generation and test automation frameworks preferred
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field required
• 8+ years of experience in IT operations, QA operations, or release management
• 3+ years of experience managing non-production environments and test data
• Experience with enterprise-scale QA infrastructure or environment management
• Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, and automation-driven QA ecosystems