Test Environment Lead

We are looking for a Test Environment Lead to join our growing team in Argentina!  

Location: Argentina (remote) 

Job description 

Test Environment Management 

• Own the day-to-day management of, QA, system testing, UAT, performance testing, and other non-production environments. 

• Maintain an accurate inventory of environments, applications, infrastructure components, integrations, versions, and environment-specific configurations. 

• Monitor environment availability, stability, utilization, and readiness. 

• Coordinate environment provisioning, refreshes, rebuilds, upgrades, maintenance, and decommissioning. 

• Ensure environments are appropriately aligned with planned testing and release activities. 

• Environment Planning & Scheduling 

• Develop and maintain an integrated test environment calendar covering releases, testing cycles, deployments, maintenance, data refreshes, and environment reservations. 

• Coordinate environment requirements across multiple projects, programs, and application teams. 

• Identify scheduling conflicts and competing environment demands and facilitate prioritization and resolution. 

• Forecast future environment capacity and availability requirements based on project and release roadmaps. 

• Communicate planned outages, environment changes, and availability constraints to stakeholders. 

Environment Readiness 

• Define and manage environment readiness criteria for major testing phases. 

• Coordinate readiness checks before SIT, UAT, regression, performance, and other testing cycles. 

• Validate that required application versions, infrastructure, interfaces, configurations, connectivity, and test data are available. 

• Track readiness issues through resolution and escalate risks that could impact testing timelines. 

• Provide clear go/no-go environment readiness status to project and release stakeholders. 

Incident & Problem Management 

• Coordinate investigation and resolution of environment-related incidents. 

• Establish clear ownership and escalation paths for environment issues. 

• Facilitate troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, database, network, middleware, vendor, and integration teams. 

• Track recurring environment failures and drive root-cause analysis and preventive actions. 

• Distinguish application defects from environment/configuration issues to minimize unnecessary testing delays. 

Test Data & Integration Coordination 

• Coordinate with Test Data Management, database, security, and application teams to ensure appropriate test data is available. 

• Support environment refreshes, database refreshes, data masking, and test-data synchronization activities. 

• Ensure required interfaces, APIs, batch processes, middleware components, and external integrations are available for testing. 

• Coordinate dependencies involving third-party or vendor-managed test environments. 

Governance & Controls 

• Establish and maintain standards, processes, and procedures for test environment management. 

• Implement appropriate controls for environment access, configuration changes, deployments, and maintenance. 

• Maintain environment documentation, architecture information, dependency maps, support contacts, and operating procedures. 

• Support security, audit, compliance, and change-management requirements applicable to non-production environments. 

• Promote automation and standardization of environment provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and validation. 

Reporting & Stakeholder Management 

• Provide regular reporting on environment health, availability, incidents, utilization, upcoming activities, risks, and dependencies. 

• Maintain dashboards and metrics related to environment performance and operational effectiveness. 

• Facilitate environment planning and readiness meetings with technical and business stakeholders. 

• Escalate environment risks and constraints that could affect project milestones or releases. 

• Serve as the primary point of contact for cross-program test environment coordination. 

Key Deliverables 

• Test Environment Strategy and Management Plan 

• Environment inventory and configuration baseline 

• Integrated environment calendar 

• Environment allocation and reservation schedule 

• Environment readiness assessments 

• Application/version deployment matrix 

• Environment dependency and integration maps 

• Environment incident and issue tracker 

• Capacity and utilization reporting 

• Environment health/status dashboard 

• Risk, issue, and escalation reporting 

• Environment standards and operating procedures 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. 

• Typically 5+ years of experience in IT delivery, application support, infrastructure, QA, DevOps, release management, or environment management. 

• Experience supporting complex enterprise application environments. 

• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and testing lifecycle. 

• Experience coordinating multiple non-production environments across concurrent projects and releases. 

• Working knowledge of application infrastructure, databases, middleware, APIs, networking, cloud platforms, and system integrations. 

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and configuration management. 

• Experience with IT service-management processes such as Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management. 

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, planning, and organizational skills. 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capabilities. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience working in large, highly integrated enterprise environments. 

• Experience with Agile, DevOps, and/or scaled delivery models. 

• Familiarity with tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, or similar platforms. 

• Experience with cloud and container technologies such as Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, or OpenShift. 

• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management practices. 

• ITIL certification or practical experience applying ITIL processes. 

• Experience managing environments involving third-party vendors and external integrations. 

• Experience operating in a regulated industry such as healthcare, financial services, insurance, or government. 

Key Competencies 

Ownership: Takes end-to-end accountability for environment availability and readiness rather than functioning solely as a scheduling coordinator. 

Technical Acumen: Understands enough of the application and infrastructure landscape to identify dependencies, assess risks, and coordinate technical resolution. 

Planning: Anticipates environment demand and conflicts before they affect testing or delivery milestones. 

Problem Solving: Rapidly organizes the appropriate technical resources during environment incidents and drives issues through resolution. 

Stakeholder Management: Effectively coordinates across development, QA, infrastructure, security, DevOps, release management, vendors, and business teams. 

Communication: Provides concise, actionable information regarding environment health, risks, outages, dependencies, and decisions. 

Continuous Improvement: Identifies recurring operational problems and drives automation, standardization, and process improvements. 

Accuracy of environment configuration and version information 

Timeliness of environment refreshes and provisioning 

Stakeholder satisfaction with environment services 

The role works closely with Application Development, Quality Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud/Platform Engineering, Database Administration, DevOps, Release Management, Cybersecurity, Test Data Management, Architecture, vendors, and business testing teams. 

Why QualityAI?

QualityAI is an AI-first quality engineering company helping enterprises deploy and scale complex systems with greater confidence. Operating across data, models, platforms, infrastructure, and operational environments, the company provides assurance and engineering expertise that helps organizations ensure systems perform reliably in real-world conditions.

Formerly Qualitest, QualityAI supports global enterprises across regulated and technology-driven industries, combining deep engineering heritage with AI-enabled delivery, operational assurance, and lifecycle expertise to help clients achieve certainty at go-live.

• Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace - we are one, we are many at QualityAI. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences.
• 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 - QualityAI is growing massively (since Jan 2021 - added more than 2000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with us.
• Never stop experimenting and learning with QualityAI Tech academy: 3000+ training courses, mentorship programs, technical tribes, sponsored certifications, leadership programs and much more.
• Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program’s. Refer and earn - tap your network for net-worth.

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Intrigued to find more about us?

• Visit our website at QualityAI (Formerly Qualitest Group) | World’s Leading AI-First Quality Engineering Company
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualityaigroup