QA Infrastructure & Data Lead

QA Infrastructure & Data Lead

JOB-10046890

Anticipated Start Date

July 13, 2026

Location

Taylor, TX

Type of Employment

Direct Hire

Employer Info

Our client is a membership-based, nonprofit corporation dedicated to ensuring the reliability of the electric grid in Texas. As the independent system operator for the region, they seek skilled professionals to support their critical mission ensuring a reliable electric grid, efficient markets, open access, and retail choice. With a diverse organization, employees bring a wide range of experience and expertise to excel in the current energy landscape while preparing for the future.

Job Summary

W e are seeking an experienced QA Infrastructure & Data Lead to oversee the governance, stability, and continuous improvement of non-production environments and enterprise test data management capabilities. This role is responsible for ensuring secure, compliant, and release-ready systems that support high-quality software delivery across the organization.

Job Description

• Own the lifecycle management of all test and pre-production environments.
• Maintain environment configuration baselines and version inventories.
  
• Ensure environment readiness prior to testing cycles and releases.
  
• Coordinate provisioning, upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities with platform teams.
  
• Monitor environment stability, performance, and availability.
  
• Manage environment scheduling, utilization, and conflict resolution.
  
• Prevent configuration and version drift between QA and production environments.
  
• Define and implement policies, standards, and operating procedures related to test environments.
  
• Execute and evolve the enterprise Test Data Management (TDM) strategy and roadmap.
  
• Design and implement test data architecture, tooling strategies, and governance frameworks.
  
• Establish and oversee a centralized test data repository supporting multiple business functions.
  
• Manage test data refreshes, time-sliced refreshes, and on-demand test data requests.
  
• Coordinate virtual environment support and data provisioning activities across IT teams.
  
• Develop and maintain "gold copy" test data sets for projects, programs, and releases.
  
• Implement automated test data generation, synthetic data creation, data masking, and privacy controls.
  
• Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, audit, and regulatory requirements.
  
• Lead the implementation and ongoing operation of a centralized Test Data Management service.
  
• Define service levels, reporting metrics, and performance measures for shared services.
  
• Coordinate activities across decentralized application teams and concurrent project initiatives.
  
• Communicate environment and test data status, risks, and performance metrics to stakeholders and leadership.
  
• Develop and publish KPIs that measure service effectiveness and delivery quality.
  
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives aligned with organizational QA and testing frameworks.
  
• Mentor, coach, and provide guidance to team members on test environment and test data management best practices.
  
• Collaborate with Release Management, PMO, Application Services, and Infrastructure teams on enterprise initiatives.
  
• Support multiple projects of varying size and complexity while balancing business priorities.
  
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies and industry best practices.
  
• Leverage automation, AI-driven monitoring, predictive analytics, and observability tools to improve operational effectiveness.
  
• Ensure adherence to change management, release governance, and audit requirements.

Skills Required

• 8+ years of experience in IT Operations, QA Operations, Release Management, or related disciplines.
• 3+ years of experience managing non-production environments and test data.
  
• Experience with relational databases, including Oracle and SQL Server.
  
• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, release management, and change management processes.
  
• Experience with version control, deployment processes, and migration governance.
  
• Experience operating within cloud or hybrid infrastructure environments.
  
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide technology implementations.
  
• Experience with service virtualization technologies.
  
• Proven ability to work effectively in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments.
  
• Hands-on experience integrating DevOps and QA tools for test environment and test data provisioning.
  
• Exposure to AI-based monitoring, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and synthetic test data generation is preferred.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
  
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and customer service orientation.
  
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
  
• Strong problem-solving, conflict resolution, and decision-making capabilities.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Information Technology, or a related field is required.
• Equivalent combinations of education and professional experience will also be considered.

Additional requirements

• CI/CD Platforms: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, ARM Templates
• Monitoring & Observability: Splunk, Dynatrace
• Service & Test Management: ServiceNow, Jira, qTest
• Automation & Infrastructure Tools: Ansible, Rubrik, AppSync

Salary

• $165,000 per year (Compensation will be offered within this posted range based on experience, skills, and market factors)

HirePower Personnel, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.