TEST ENVIRONMENT MANAGER

VDart Inc; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global information technology staffing provider in Phoenix seeks a candidate to manage and automate test environments. You will oversee scheduling, configuration, and cross-functional communication. Strong project management expertise, leadership skills, and experience with Autosys are essential. Candidates should have a Bachelor's Degree and 5-8 years in technology project management. This role requires excellent communication and problem-solving abilities in a dynamic IT setting.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in technology project management.
• Expert knowledge of scheduling and resource management.
• Ability to motivate team members and facilitate change.

Responsibilities

• Schedule the use of Test Environments based on stakeholder needs.
• Manage re-configuration of Test Environments.
• Communicate effectively with project and IT management teams.

Skills

Leadership skills

Project management methodologies

IT system technical knowledge

Conflict resolution

Communication skills

Customer service

Microsoft Project

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Autosys

Job description

Overview

About VDart: VDart is an emerging global information technology staffing provider with expertise in Enterprise Resource Planning (Oracle/SAP), SMAC (Social, Mobile, Cloud, Analytics), Business Intelligence & Infrastructure services. Three-time consecutive winner of Best Places to Work in Atlanta and Best and Brightest Award, VDart has successfully deployed over 3500 contractors in the last five years with over 60% of its deployments with Fortune 1000 corporations. We possess deep industry expertise and focus in BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, Energy & Utility, Healthcare, Technology and the Public-Sector. Our scope, knowledge, industry expertise and global footprint have enabled us to provide best in the industry solutions. With our core focus in emerging technologies, we provide global technology workforce solutions in USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK & Australia

Responsibilities

• Scheduling the use of Test Environments based on the needs of all stakeholders
• Manage the re-configuration of Test Environments as per the schedule, coordinating cross functional resources
• Communicating effectively with project teams, resource management teams, IT management and executive groups and all project stakeholders
• Escalating resource contention appropriately
• Supporting the development of project plans and schedules
• Collaborating with the team to accomplish team initiatives, create and improve team and organizational processes
• Develop a process to track all the test environments
• Create short-term plans to deliver environments to support sprint-based development
• Coordinate activities of release engineers to automate the setup and configure the test environments
• Monitor and guarantee uptime for test environments
• Provide ongoing support for test environments
• Communicate availability to project management and testing teams
• Develop KPIs to track efficacy of test environment delivery efforts
• Resolve conflicts between teams competing for limited testing resources
• Move test environment activities toward a goal of 100% automation
• Provide estimates for onboarding new projects to test environments
• Ensure all components needed for testing exists in each environment from an end to end perspective
• Design systems to support continuous delivery and adapt test environment management to support on-demand, self-service automation
• Forecast environment requirements based on anticipated future demand from multiple application development teams

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to motivate team members and facilitate change in the organization
• Expert knowledge of project management methodologies, processes and tools
• Working general IT system technical knowledge for various platform environments
• Expert knowledge of scheduling and resource management and conflict resolution
• Familiarity with networking, firewalls, databases, file systems, mainframe and midrange systems
• Successful track record of effectively managing multiple simultaneous technical activities to completion
• Experience coordinating IT infrastructure-related projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to communicate with all levels of organization
• Solid leadership, motivational, interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to facilitate discussions, identify, analyze and resolve issues
• Ability to meet deadlines, schedules and budgeted costs
• Able to work independently
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, results-driven individual
• Excellent customer service skills
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Project
• Bachelor\'s Degree and at least 5-8+ years of experience in technology project management (equivalent combination of education and experience may qualify)
• Experience in Autosys or other job scheduling tool
• Experience with troubleshooting test or Autosys batch failures and experience coordinating with developers to fix the issues
• Experience with regression, functional, and system testing procedures. Experience with development flows and functionality in each release to support rapid continuous delivery
• Must be able to effectively communicate status

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.