Engineer III - Test Environment Management

Overview What you can expect!  Find joy in serving others with IEHP! We welcome you to join us in “healing and inspiring the human spirit” and to pivot from a “job” opportunity to an authentic experience! The Engineer III - Test Environment Management is the lead position assisting the Manager, Technical Test Data & Environment in directing, controlling, and managing the enterprise-level test environments.  It consists of using procedures, tools, and resources to manage multiple components like software, hardware, databases, test data, and applications. This position works in collaboration with the infrastructure team and TDM Engineers to ensure Test Environments are ready with necessary test data for Test execution and Delivery teams. Train and Guide TEM- Engineer Is/IIs as needed. Commitment to Quality: The IEHP Team is committed to incorporate IEHP’s Quality Program goals including, but not limited to, HEDIS, CAHPS, and NCQA Accreditation. Additional Benefits Perks IEHP is not only committed to healing and inspiring the human spirit of our Members; we also aim to match our Team Members with the same energy by providing prime benefits and more. CalPERS retirement 457(b) option with a contribution match Generous paid time off- vacation, holidays, sick State of the art fitness center on-site Medical Insurance with Dental and Vision Paid life insurance for employees with additional options Short-term, and long-term disability options Pet care insurance Flexible Spending Account – Health Care/Childcare Wellness programs that promote a healthy work-life balance Career advancement opportunities and professional development Competitive salary with annual merit increase Team bonus opportunities Key Responsibilities Lead the design and development of test environment strategy and plans to support initiatives within assigned domains. Identify the environment’s requirements to effectively support the overall release cycles. Analyze existing environments and identify requirement gaps and immaturities. Develop and execute a plan to resolve, driving to closure in a timely manner. Lead collaboration with Test Delivery and UAT Test Coordination teams to accommodate Test environment needs for QE engineers and UAT testers. Collaborate with Application Support, Internal Development, and Data Integration teams and external vendor teams in setting up the test environments for product upgrades/releases. Interact with project managers, Test Delivery and Governance managers to sequence projects for testing in a limited number of testing environments. Manage the coordination of efforts to configure environments and tracking the status of environment configuration activities. Collaborate with the infrastructure team to configure a database or set up and configure several VMs to facilitate testing through understanding the technical requirements to set up test environments. Prioritize Environment Build & Change Requests. Build, Reserve, Refresh, Reuse & Reclaim environments for project use as a mechanism to optimize our infrastructure resources. Facilitate and resolve any environmental contentions/conflicts between the stakeholders. Setup environment configurations, create environment maps, and generate environment matrix using a Test Environment Management tool. Provide details on progress on the various environment requests for several applications and Data integration processes. Monitor & Report environment set up progress. Use project planning and forecasting tools. Work together with Test Data Management resources to ensure the test data is masked and ready for test execution. Provide subject matter expertise in compliance review meetings. Support a continuous release schedule across multiple groups. Maintain advanced knowledge of the work effort involved to set up and configuring operating systems, networks, databases, and application servers involved in the creation of end-to-end testing environments. Lead Test Environment/Data management teams. Lead, guide, and train other resources. Perform any other duties as required to ensure Health Plan operations and department business needs are successful. Qualifications Education & Experience A minimum of eight (8) years of Information systems and Quality Engineering experiences. Minimum five (5) years of experience working in Test Environment/Test Data Management Experience working with various Product Vendors. Demonstrated ability in Design and developing test environment strategies and plans Demonstrated track record of organizing and tracking the progress of multiple projects across the software development lifecycle Have experience communicating with management on topics including project timelines, contingency plans, environment budgets, and resource allocation Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management or similar technical field from an accredited institution required Key Qualifications Extensive knowledge and understanding of: Quality assurance processes and procedures to devise methods to enforce quality standards The work effort involved to setup and configuring operating systems, networks, databases, and application servers involved in the creation of end-to-end testing environments Test Environment Management and Test Data Management tools Test Automation and CI/CD experience Agile environment and DevOps Technical work required to stand-up test environments, and ready to delegate this work to associated release engineering groups Strong planning, organization, critical thinking, decision-making and communication (verbal and written) skills Budget management skills. Proven skills in budget preparation fiscal management Group presentation, leadership, team building, analytical and organizational skills Robust analytical skills for both existing processes and identifying areas of opportunity Excellent decisio