TEM & Test Environment Strategy Lead

Clifyx; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Test Environment Consultant at Clifyx will evaluate an organization's test environment landscape, identify gaps, and provide strategic recommendations to improve stability, governance, and utilization across SIT/UAT/Performance environments.

You will lead discovery sessions with QA, DevOps, and infrastructure teams, review provisioning and management processes, and create a transformation roadmap with an implementation plan.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years in TEM, QA, or test consulting roles.
• Experience in financial services sector.
• Exposure to test environment modernization programs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct discovery sessions with QA, DevOps, infra, and app teams.
• Assess current test environment landscape including infrastructure, applications, middleware, and dependencies.
• Review provisioning, configuration, and management processes.
• Evaluate stability, availability, and utilization of environments.
• Evaluate existing environments and their purposes (SIT, UAT, Performance).
• Identify environment dependencies across applications, services and integrations.
• Identify environment usage across projects and teams.
• Evaluate TEM practices against industry best practices.
• Identify provisioning delays, conflicts, data availability issues, and instability.
• Assess governance for environment booking, scheduling, and access control.
• Review ownership and support models.
• Evaluate tools for provisioning, monitoring, and configuration management.
• Identify automation opportunities using DevOps and IaC.
• Provide actionable recommendations to improve stability, scalability, and governance.
• Define a future-state TEM model.
• Create transformation roadmap and implementation plan.
• Prepare assessment reports and present findings to stakeholders.

Skills

Test Environment Management

QA lifecycle

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Containerization familiarity

Test data management

Consulting skills (discovery, docs, RO

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Containerization (Docker)

Infrastructure automation

Job description

The Test Environment Consultant at Clifyx will evaluate an organization's test environment landscape, identify gaps, and provide strategic recommendations to improve stability, governance, and utilization across SIT/UAT/Performance environments.

You will lead discovery sessions with QA, DevOps, and infrastructure teams, review provisioning and management processes, and create a transformation roadmap with an implementation plan.