The QA Environments and Release Lead is responsible for providing expert leadership in the coordination of Quality Assurance activities, test environment management, and release strategies. This role ensures that effective release processes are executed to facilitate the seamless deployment of targeted solutions. Collaborating closely with product owners and delivery teams, the QA Environments and Release Lead will establish and implement a robust test environment management process across our integrated application landscape

Key responsibilities

Generic Responsibilities

• Design testing, test environment, and release strategy for one or more project delivery streams.

Specific Responsibilities:

Quality Assurance Strategy

• Develop and implement QA strategies and processes for various software releases.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, including product owners, delivery owners, and business analysts, to create comprehensive test plans that align with project objectives.

Environment Management

• Manage and maintain QA test environments to ensure they are appropriately set up for testing activities.

• Coordinate with delivery teams to provision, configure, and maintain necessary environments for development, testing, and production.

• Ensure that test environments accurately reflect production settings to facilitate effective testing.

• Identify and resolve environment-related issues that may impact the QA process.

Release Coordination

• Coordinate and manage the release schedule, ensuring that releases are planned, communicated, and executed smoothly.

• Liaise with various teams to ensure that all aspects of the release process are covered, including documentation, training, and deployment.

Key Relationships

• IT Quality Assurance Team

• Product and Delivery Owners

Qualifications, Essential Skills, and Experience

• 3+ years of experience as QA Lead with bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience in lieu of education

• 2+ years of experience and In-depth knowledge of test data and environment management principles and practices, including setup, configuration, and maintenance of testing environments.

• Strong understanding of environment architecture/design level

• Strong understanding of various testing methodologies (manual and automated).

• Experience in managing and mentoring QA teams.

• Strong understanding of STLC concepts within the overall project life cycle and Defect Management tools.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels.

• SDLC, STLC, SQA Frameworks

• Extensive experience in software testing and quality assurance, with a focus on environment and release management.

• Experience with Workday, MS Dynamics, Dataverse, SnapLogic, Proteus

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence).

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams

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