Test Data Environment Manager

Based in the Washington DC area, since 2001 InfiCare has been providing IT, HealthCare and staffing services to its clients across the US. We have grown steadily to become the leader in the staffing industry with an impressive client base . Be it small niche company, fortune 500 global firm or a US Government agency – we have years of experience providing staffing services to them. Our clients rely on us for qualified talent pool.

Title: Test Data Environment Manager

Location: Rosemont, IL

Job Type: 6+ Months Contract

Job Details:

• Responsible for complex problem solving, solution design, architecture, planning of Test data/Environment Management as well as coordination between the business, test and development teams.
• Plans and oversees the technical transitions between development, testing and production. 
• Establish and enforce processes to ensure a consistent, well managed and integrated Test data/Environment.
• Ensure processes, services, business rules are aligned with best practices and company standards with respect to performance and governance. 
• Comprehends the test data needs and concerns for multiple workstreams, test groups and development support.
• Manages the documentation and implementation of test data policies and procedures. 
• Makes recommendations on strategies for improving or leveraging applications to provide additional value. 
• Advanced understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, testing, problem resolution and planning  
• Excellent verbal and written skills to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical associates in the company  
• Strong ability to work across project teams and develop positive working relationships with peers and senior management  
• Estimate efforts to support develop of project schedules and resource assignments. 
• Keep abreast of new technologies. 
• Prepare detailed Test Data plan and track schedule
• Defining QA dashboard and reporting engagement performance
• Identify dependencies, constraints, risks and issues
• Handle escalations / project issues
• Reviewing and providing inputs for all the testing related artifacts
• Administer project change control
• Managing the project level risks
• Facilitate root cause analysis

Related Experience/Requirements

• 7+ years’ experience with design/architecting, developing and implementing data.
• Requires a background in test data strategies, test data mining, solution management and planning.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills and be a team player
• Track record of working on successful software development projects/products
• Experience of working on iterative/agile projects
• Experience of one or more of the following: Test Data Management, Test Environment Management, Virtual Services, Test Data profiling, testing and Masking
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience of data provisioning using writing and maintaining data creation/deletion scripts
• Experience of data masking

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Should have worked any of technologies any TDM tool (IBM InfoSphere Optim, LISA, Delphix, Informatica BizDataX)
• Should have Strong TDM & TEM conceptual knowledge.
• Must be good in SQL Queries and have hands on experience on any one or more DB (SQL MP, .
• Establishing the Test data/Environment Management Charter to support an iterative, repeatable process to create, maintain and protect data in non-production environments that supports end to end testing of key business processes
• Responsible for implementation of advanced testing practices to improve quality and reduce overall cost and ensure the protection of data
• Should have strong experience on Multiple Databases Integration & Upgrade projects.
• Strong experience on test data Strategy/concepts/solutions on Data profiling/Data Masking/Data Integrating.
• Experience in handling of production data.

·         Handling of multiple data bases environments like DB2/SQL Server /Oracle & Tandem/MVS  

Let me know if you need any other details…..

Kapil Gupta

InfiCare Technologies| 22375 Broderick Drive #225 Dulles VA 20166 |

703.652.3831 Direct 

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