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Infra Database Test Delivery LeadNorthern Trust • Thiruvananthapuram, IN
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Infra Database Test Delivery Lead

Infra Database Test Delivery Lead

Northern Trust • Thiruvananthapuram, IN
1 day ago
Job description

Job Overview :

The Database SQM Infra Test Delivery Lead holds distinct responsibilities for ensuring the quality of infrastructure-related database initiatives and changes, including patching, upgrades, integrations, certifications, and emergency fixes.

  • Responsible for Infrastructure Test Strategy for Infra Changes and Projects
  • The lead is responsible for general project management elements like planning, execution, monitoring, testing, and project closure to embed quality delivery for infrastructure Engineering & Operations projects
  • Primary expectation is to manage program demand intake, quality delivery, test planning, schedules, risks and issues, incident analysis.
  • Accountable to deliver estimate efforts, track financials, hold monthly meetings with Infra leadership and address failed changes incidents and identify do better opportunities.
  • Accountable to drive quality efficiencies and effectiveness using automated solutions for Database changes, testing life cycle and change process optimization
  • Provide feedback to stakeholders on Quality Roadmap, including automation opportunities
  • Influence and communicate effectively with both technical & non-technical audiences
  • Contribute to increasing automated testing capabilities to ensure success of infrastructure database projects or system changes

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and expertise within the infrastructure field to deliver quality programs and projects in-house and onshore for Infrastructure database products and tools.
  • Responsible for Infrastructure test delivery for Database infrastructure changes and projects leveraging test automation and collaborating with application testers and IT leaders
  • Responsible for building and maintaining productive working relationship like planning, execution, monitoring, testing, and project closure to embed quality delivery for infrastructure management & Operations projects
  • Analyze Database change schedules working with Engineering partners to drive test strategies and plan for developing testing coverage and scenarios.
  • Lead and manage quality delivery of Database change to avoid business impact, including handling incidents, defect, issues to resolution.
  • Accountable to drive quality efficiencies and effectiveness using automated solutions for Database changes, testing life cycle and change process optimization applying the ITIL process methodology and tools like ServiceNow
  • Responsible for defining Infra Test Delivery strategy, approach and execution for change requests.
  • Be accountable for the test coordination and mentor Infra Test Delivery Team and participate in interviews, induction, and training
  • Ensuring that the application teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the Infra Test Delivery strategy as defined.
  • Build and maintain quality standards and ensure application teams deliver quality testing to validate infra changes by utilizing technical automated test assets and discipline.
  • Lead and manage Infra Test Delivery activities such as understanding infra change impacts, prep test plans, perform test execution, deliver test results metrics to key stakeholders
  • Accountable for performing root cause analysis for continuous change quality improvement to drive production stability in the infrastructure test delivery programs.
  • Be an escalation point for project and change deliver, issue and risk management and stakeholder communications
  • Serve as a team lead and plan required talent, capacity and growth to build a robust motivated delivery team
  • Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills using the big picture understanding of core Infrastructure components and architecture
  • Lead the coordinate testing with the application teams and Infra change team during infrastructure changes and provide support throughout the resolution
  • Collaborate and present program status weekly and monthly cadence with Infrastructure leadership partners and executives
  • Required Knowledge

  • Familiar with Automated Testing Types, Environments, Frameworks (Linear, Modular,Data-Driven.etc)
  • Solid understanding and some experience in various testing discipline concepts : functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, non-functional requirement testing, and smoke testing
  • Test lifecycle experience in delivering high quality infrastructure changes with minimal impacts to applications (test planning, test scenario build, test execution, defect / issue management and test health metrics and status reporting)
  • Test management experience including soliciting requirements, producing test strategy, effort estimation and test schedules.
  • Good understanding of Computer Systems Architecture and Data Center Services and Operations.
  • Infrastructure Administration, Automation Concepts, Diagnostics and Troubleshooting.
  • COTS Products LifeCycle, Patching, Upgrades and Deployment into Environments (Dev / Test / UAT / Prod).
  • Concepts and Tools of Infrastructure Servers Virtualization, Middleware (Web Servers) ,Storage
  • Management(NAS / SAN), Database Management (RDBMS / SQL,NOSQL), and Network LAN / WAN.
  • Monitoring, Alerting, and Scheduling Tools and Services (Control-M,Pandora,Splunk,Grafana..etc).
  • Service Levels Agreements (SLAs),Service Levels Objectives (SLOs),Service Level Indicators(SLIs).
  • Application of ITIL Service Management Concepts and Tools such as ServiceNow(Incident, Problem, Change, Release, CMDB…etc.)
  • Familiarity of Agile Methodology Scrum / Kanban and project tracking tools like Azure Devops and Jira
  • Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Service Now, Jira
  • Required Skills

  • Good understanding of Database Patching, Upgrades, Security fixes, APIs, Integration, Protocols & Frameworks
  • Familiarity with Database technologies such as : MS SQL,, Hadoop, Oracle / Exadata and DB2
  • Automation skillset : Python Programming, Unix Shell scripting, Selenium and Java.
  • Personal Qualifications & Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field, 12+ Years Experience in Infrastructure change testing life cycle / Software Testing LifeCycle
  • Related Certifications in areas of Computer Infrastructure, Testing, and Project Management.
  • Provide leadership, build and maintaining relationships with Stakeholders.
  • Ability to organize and prioritize work and tasks under pressure.
  • Strong troubleshooting mindset and inquisitive mind sets
  • Ability to handle conflict effectively.
  • Able to communicate with all levels of management and peers within the organization, written and verbal.
  • Flexible with the ability to and work under pressure, work based on the infrastructure change schedule and weekends
  • Proactive, strong-minded, quick thinker and assertive.
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