Test Environment Manager

Experience Required: 15 Years

Role Overview

The Test Environment Manager (TEM) is a senior engineering-focused role responsible for transforming and managing the entire non-production environment landscape. This role ensures that test environments are reliable scalable automated observable and aligned with modern SDLC and DevOps practices. The TEM drives technical excellence SRE-inspired culture and continuous improvement across development QA and operations teams.

Key Operational ResponsibilitiesEnvironment Automation & Lifecycle Management

• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to fully automate provisioning configuration and teardown of test environments.
  
• Integrate environment automation seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to enable on-demand self-service environment delivery.
  

Reliability & Observability

• Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and key Service Level Indicators (SLIs) such as environment availability provisioning time and stability metrics.
  
• Monitor environment health using observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Splunk etc.) and proactively identify and resolve performance issues or bottlenecks.
  

Incident & Problem Management

• Lead incident response for environment-related issues driving quick resolution and facilitating blameless post-mortems.
  
• Implement permanent fixes based on root cause analysis and reduce repeat incidents.
  

Automation & Toil Reduction

• Identify repetitive manual environment tasks and eliminate them through automation improving engineering efficiency and reducing operational burden.
  

Strategic & Cultural ResponsibilitiesContinuous Improvement

• Analyze environment performance data incident trends and post-mortem outcomes to drive ongoing enhancements and innovation.
  

Reliability Management

• Apply an error budget framework to balance velocity and reliability across teams.
  
• Shift priorities between stability improvements and feature delivery based on reliability KPIs.
  

Culture & Collaboration

• Promote a culture of shared ownership blameless problem-solving and strong cross-team collaboration among development QA DevOps and SRE teams.
  

Capacity Planning & Scalability

• Forecast environment capacity requirements based on usage trends test cycles and upcoming projects.
  
• Ensure infrastructure elasticity and scalability to meet future demands.
  

Test Data Management Integration

• Partner with Test Data Management teams to ensure test data is consistent compliant refreshed automatically and aligned with environment provisioning needs.
  

Technical Skills & Experience

• Monitoring & Observability: Expertise with Prometheus Grafana Splunk ELK/EFK or similar platforms.
  
• CI/CD & Automation Tools: Strong experience with Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions and configuration management tools (Terraform Ansible etc.).
  
• Cloud & Container Platforms: Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) Kubernetes Docker and serverless technologies.
  
• Scripting & Programming: Proficiency in Python Bash or similar scripting languages for automation and environment tooling.
  
• Systems & Networking: Strong knowledge of Linux systems networking concepts DNS load balancing and database operations.
  

Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities

• Leadership & Influence: Ability to drive SRE and environment best practices across multiple teams and technical domains.
  
• Analytical Problem-Solving: Strong debugging troubleshooting and decision-making skills under time-sensitive conditions.
  
• Communication Excellence: Clear and effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  
• Adaptability & Proactiveness: Ability to stay ahead of evolving technologies tools and environment architectures.
  

Summary

This role is ideal for a seasoned engineering leader who brings strong technical depth SRE mindset automation-first thinking and the ability to shape and modernize complex test environment landscapes.