Test Environment Architect

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

Job Description
Test Environment Architect

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong understanding of Test Environment Management (TEM).
• Knowledge of QA lifecycle, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good to have experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Good to have familiarity with containerization and infrastructure automation.
• Understanding of test data management concepts.
• Strong consulting skills including discovery facilitation, stakeholder interviews, documentation, and roadmap creation.

Experience

• 8–12 years Test Environment Management, QA or Test Consulting roles.
• Experience with financial services and exposure to test environment management tools
• Good to have prior experience in test environment modernization programs

Role Overview

The Test Environment Consultant is responsible for evaluating an organization's current test environment landscape, identifying gaps, and recommending improvements. The consultant performs environment discovery, analyzes infrastructure and process maturity, and provides strategic recommendations to optimize environment utilization, stability, and governance.

Key Responsibilities

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

Deliverables

• Test Environment Maturity Assessment
• Gap Analysis Report
• Recommended Test Environment Management Model
• Transformation Roadmap