#20899 - Test Environment Architect

Are you interested in working with the World’s leading AI-powered Quality Engineering Company? Ready to advance your career, team up with global thought leaders across industries and make a difference every day? Join us at Qualitest!

We are looking for a Test Environment Architect to join our growing team in United States

 Location: Remote (US) - MST

Must haves: 
-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)
-Cloud or DevOps certifications (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes) preferred.
-Experience in defining and implementing the enterprise Test Environment Management (TEM) strategy aligned with DevOps and release objectives.
-Help enforce correct configuration, versioning, and dependencies across environments.

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

Job Summary
The TEMS Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and optimizing enterprise-scale test environments that support complex application portfolios across Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines. This role ensures test environments are stable, scalable, cost-effective, secure, and production-like, while enabling faster and higher-quality releases.
The architect defines the strategy, architecture, standards, and operating model for test environments across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid platforms.

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Key Responsibilities
Environment Strategy & Architecture:
-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.
 
Environment Provisioning & Automation:
-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.
 
Environment Governance & Stability:
-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
 
Continuous Improvement & Innovation:
-Stay current with industry trends in DevOps, cloud, and test environment management.
-Define roadmaps for environment modernization and transformation.

Other requirements:
-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

Benefits

Why QualiTest?

• Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace – we are one, we are many at Qualitest. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences. We have more than 40% women and around 120 different nationalities.
• Local and global opportunities – we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career.
• Clear view of your career and progression with the company – Qualitest is growing massively (since 2021 – tripled our employees base – we now have more than 8,000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with us.
• Work hard and play harder with our flexible and casual culture. Take a break from work and join an employee event, or enjoy the amenities and games provided from one of our Employees Centers.Save your earnings and prepare for your future by enrolling in our 401k plan where Qualitest will match your contributions accelerating your savings plan.
• Take care of health with enrollment into one of our competitive healthcare benefits. Qualitest will match towards your HSA if you choose to participate.
• Never stop experimenting and learning with QCraft – our Learning & Development platform: 50,000+ courses, 300+ virtual labs, mentorship and leadership programs, professional tribes, sponsored certifications, and much more.
• Stay active and get rewarded with our Corporate Wellness Program. We pay your Gym membership and giving you opportunities to Earn additional vacation times for attendance the gym!
• Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program’s. Refer and earn – tap your network for net-worth.
• We recognize our employees work via our Qudos platform - You can earn bonuses and spot awards by celebrating your and your peers’ achievements.
• Planning a vacation? Looking for car insurance? Get access to Qualitest Employee Perks for discounts on anything from travel to electronics. With so many offerings the savings are endless!
• A Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $130,000 - $140,000.
• Intrigued to find more about us?
• Visit our website at https://www.qualitestgroup.com/
• If you like what you have read, send us your resume and let’s start talking!