Test Environment Manager at Tezza Business Solutions Limited

Tezza Business Solutions Limited is a leading Software Quality Assurance and Testing multinational with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria. We are a Software Quality Assurance and Testing Services provider. Our primary goal is to be the "go to" Quality Assurance & Software Testing company in East and West Africa while developing offshore resources to fill test automation positions (and other hard to find software testing capabilities) in the North America and European markets.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Test Environment Manager

Location: Lagos, Nigeria 
Category: Information Technology

Job Purpose

• The Test Environment Manager will be responsible for preventing conflicts and collisions between multiple groups seeking access to limited software resources.

Responsibilities

• Develop process to track test environments required for QA
• Create short-term plans to deliver environments to support sprint-based development
• Coordinate activities of release engineers to automate the setup and configuration of test environments
• Monitor and guarantee uptime of test environments
• Provide ongoing support for test environments
• Communicate test environment availability to project management and quality assurance
• 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 of new projects to test environments
• 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
• Act as a technical manager to coordinate test environments for multiple application development groups.
• Configure test environments for both isolated subsystems and end-to-end environments using a mixture of cloud-based infrastructure and bare metal systems  for release automation and configuration management.
• Support a continuous release schedule across multiple groups.
• Work with project managers, operations professionals, and senior technical engineering managers to sequence projects for testing on a limited number of testing environments.
• Work closely with release managers and release engineers to track the availability of limited testing resources
• Conduct technical tasks such as deployment and database administration by closely collaborating with engineering resources and database specialists.
• Candidates will be managing the coordination of efforts to configure environments and tracking the status of environment configuration activities.

Person Specification

• B.Sc Degree in Computer Science, Project Management or related fields
• Proven experience as a project manager, Network Engineer or system administrator or QA Engineer.
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders: project management, QA, and engineering management
• Ability to focus on scheduling accuracy with the ability to keep a constantly shifting test environment calendar up to date
• Ability to estimate work effort required to bring test environments to readiness
• Communication skills
• must have demonstrated the ability to understand modern approaches to deployment automation on both cloud-based infrastructure and bare-metal servers.
• Must have an overall grasp of the work-effort involved to setup and configure operating systems, networks, databases, and application servers involved in the creation of end-to-end testing environments.
• Must be knowledgeable about Java, .NET, and a number of dynamic languages all running on applications servers integrated with several relational databases running DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server.
• Demonstrated track record of organizing and tracking the progress of multiple projects across the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to use project planning and forecasting tools.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.