QA Infrastructure & Data Lead

About the role

The Test Environment & Data Lead is accountable for the governance, stability, and continuous improvement of all non-production test environments to ensure secure, compliant, and release-ready systems. This role oversees end-to-end environment lifecycle management, including configuration control, test data governance, environmental use and data refreshes. The lead ensures alignment with Quality Assurance and Release & Change Management standards to minimize operational, product, and data-related risks.

Responsibilities

• Broadly applies principles, theories and concepts related to the profession.
• Owns lifecycle management of Test and Pre-Prod environments.
• Maintains environment configuration baselines and version inventory.
• Ensures environment readiness before test cycles.
• Coordinates provisioning, upgrades, and patching with platform teams.
• Maintains environment stability, availability, and performance.
• Manages environment scheduling and conflict resolution.
• Prevents version drift between QA and Production.
• Executes on the QA Test Data Management strategy and roadmap.
• Works closely with Release Management, the PMO, Application Services, and other IT areas in design and implementation of an enterprise test data repository.
• Schedules and coordinates test system refreshes, time-sliced data refreshes, on-demand test data requests, and corresponding virtual test environments as needed.

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years in IT operations, QA operations, or release management.
• 3+ years managing non-production environments and test data.
• Experience in system design, programming, and troubleshooting with relational databases (e.g., Oracle and SQL Server).
• Experience with version control, deployments, and migration governance.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, and change management.
• Experience in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Demonstrated project management experience managing implementations of new enterprise-wide technology initiatives.
• Experience with service virtualization technologies.
• Proven track record of effectively working in a highly collaborative environment.
• Detail-oriented work experience and knowledge of application integration of DevOps and QA tools used for provisioning test data and test environments.
• Familiarity with AI-based environment monitoring or anomaly detection.
• Experience leveraging automation for deployment validation.
• Understanding predictive analytics for environment capacity or failure detection.
• Exposure to synthetic test data generation tools (preferred).

Qualifications

• CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, etc.).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, etc.).
• Monitoring/observability platforms (Splunk, Dynatrace).
• Management tools (ServiceNow, JIRA , Qtest, etc.).
• Other tools (Ansible, Rubric, AppSync).

Skills

• Ability to support multiple streams of projects of varying complexity.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills.
• Highly self-motivated, driven work ethic, keen attention to detail, and exceptional customer service orientation.
• Ability to communicate highly technical information in an understandable manner to non-technical audiences through writing and presentations.

Benefits

ERCOT is firmly committed to equal employment for all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, medical condition, religion, age, creed, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, ancestry, veteran status, genetic information or any other protected category under federal, state or local law.

Pay

$135,000 - $185,000

Schedule

N/A