Senior Test Data & Environment Lead

ERCOT; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 135,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

ERCOT is seeking a Test Environment & Data Lead to govern, stabilize, and continuously improve all non-production test environments ensuring secure, compliant, and release-ready systems.

The role oversees end-to-end environment lifecycle management, including configuration control, test data governance, and data refresh cycles. Close collaboration with Database, Infrastructure, and Security teams is required to deliver audit-ready testing environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT operations, QA operations, or release management.
• 3+ years managing non-production environments and test data.
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle and SQL Server).
• Experience with version control, deployments, and migration governance.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, and change management.
• Experience in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Project management experience implementing enterprise technology initiatives.
• Experience with service virtualization technologies.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Plan, schedule and communicate test system refreshes and data requests.
• Collaborate with Release Management, PMO, and Application Services on test data repositories.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree: Computer Science, MIS or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub

Terraform

ARM

Splunk

Dynatrace

ServiceNow

JIRA

Qtest

Ansible

Rubric

AppSync

Job description

ERCOT is seeking a Test Environment & Data Lead to govern, stabilize, and continuously improve all non-production test environments ensuring secure, compliant, and release-ready systems.

The role oversees end-to-end environment lifecycle management, including configuration control, test data governance, and data refresh cycles. Close collaboration with Database, Infrastructure, and Security teams is required to deliver audit-ready testing environments.