Test Environment Manager

• Location: Parramatta CBD/ Sydney CBD (Hybrid / Flexible)
• Reports to: Senior Manager - Release & Test Environment Management.
• Company Company Size: 1000+
• Work: 2 days in office
• Day rate contract - average tenure 2+ Years - option to convert to permanent.
• Team - Test Environment Lead + Managers | Release Managers

About the Role:

You'll own the organisation's test environment management end-to-end, driving process definition, coordinating environment allocation, and ensuring environments are reliable, available, and aligned with project schedules. This hands-on role requires close collaboration with engineering, testing, and platform teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain the central repository of test environments, including versions, infrastructure details, and dependencies, while providing architectural oversight of environment supply and demand.
• Plan and manage deployment schedules, environment availability, and onboarding for new projects, including forecasting future environment needs.
• Coordinate across infrastructure, DBAs, platform owners, and release engineers to provision, configure, automate, and stand-up environments.
• Manage environment stability by logging/resolving defects, handling conflicts between teams, investigating issues, and aligning lower environments with production.
• Communicate downtime and changes, support continuous delivery, drive automation improvements, and ensure SLAs for availability and performance are met.

Experience required:

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to meet deadlines, manage competing tasks, and maintain accurate schedules.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management, able to translate issues and risks between technical and business teams.
• Proven experience managing services in complex, fast-paced environments with ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, service virtualisation, software configuration management, and enterprise-level release/environment management.
• Skilled in estimating environment readiness effort and collaborating effectively with PMs, developers, QA, infrastructure, and engineering teams.

You will be joining a collaborative team and well-governed release and test environment management team that is seen as an enabler throughout the organisation.