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Qualitest acq · 14 hours ago

#20899 - Test Environment Architect

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$130K/yr - $140K/yr

10+ years exp

Qualitest is a leading AI-powered Quality Engineering Company, seeking a Test Environment Architect to join their growing team. The role involves designing, governing, and optimizing enterprise-scale test environments to support complex application portfolios while ensuring stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness in the release process.

Information ServicesInformation Technology

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Define the enterprise Test Environment Management (TEM) strategy aligned with DevOps and release objectives

Design environment architectures across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid infrastructures

Ensure environments are production-like, scalable, and compliant with non-functional requirements

Create environment reference architectures, blueprints, and patterns

Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS and Azure)

Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and environment automation using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Ansible, etc

Integrate environment provisioning with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps)

Optimize environment refresh, cloning, and teardown processes

Establish environment governance models, including booking, access control, and usage policies

Define and enforce environment SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs (availability, readiness, stability)

Drive environment stability, defect reduction, and root-cause analysis for environment-related failures

Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for test environments

Help enforce correct configuration, versioning, and dependencies across environments

Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements

Experience with monitoring tools (New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana)

Proven experience automating dependency detection during deployments

Stay current with industry trends in DevOps, cloud, and test environment management

Define roadmaps for environment modernization and transformation

Partner with QA, DevOps, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Release teams

Helps enforce correct configuration, versioning, and dependencies across environments

Demonstrable experience in implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines

Enable service virtualization and stubbing to reduce environment dependencies

Automate dependency management and alerting during deployments

Coordinates environment schedules, bookings, dependencies, and conflict resolution

Drives assessments to determine current state and provides actionable recommendations for Test Environment management

Performs tool rationalization to identify Tool fitment and provides recommendations

Act as a trusted advisor to program leadership on environment readiness and risks

Support outsourcing and managed services models, including vendor governance

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Strong problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills

Qualification

Test Environment ManagementDevOpsCloud certificationsInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelinesMonitoring toolsStakeholder managementProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in Test Environment Management and DevOps

Experience with assessments / discovery projects in the past, client facing (able to assess, define/design, implement)

Experience in defining and implementing the enterprise Test Environment Management (TEM) strategy aligned with DevOps and release objectives