Test Environment Management Specialist

**About Vancity**

Vancity is a member-owned credit union built on the principles of inclusion and social justice. A relentless commitment to their values has helped them challenge the status quo and break down barriers since day one in 1946. They have bold commitments to make Vancity net-zero by 2040 across all mortgages and loans and are pursuing strategies on Indigenous banking and to improve the financial resilience of their members.

**About the workplace**

This is a permanent, full-time role that will enjoy hybrid working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from the Vancity head office location and your Lower Mainland based home office. Periodically, you’ll be required to attend in-person activities or events.

**A typical day would involve**:

- Develop and manage test environment strategies, ensuring alignment with project timelines, business goals, software configurations and they meet the requirement of on going test activities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (development, testing, infrastructure) to define, set up, and monitor test environments, troubleshooting issues and implementing automated tools for efficiency.
- Communicate environment status, changes, and issues to stakeholders, while driving continuous improvements through best practices, process enhancements, and industry innovations.
- Configure test environments and data to simulate production conditions, while building monitoring systems to track key performance metrics (response times, throughput, resource utilization).
- **Resource Management**: Allocate and manage resources for test environments, including hardware, software, and data management.
- **Collaboration**: Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure test environments are aligned with project timelines and deliverables.
- **Process Improvement**: Identify and implement best practices for environment management, including automation of environment provisioning and configuration.
- **Monitoring & Reporting**: Monitor the performance of test environments and provide regular updates to stakeholders regarding environment status and issues.
- **Troubleshooting**: Laise with Infrastructure, Network and other teams to Diagnose and resolve issues related to test environments, including software configuration, network connectivity, and data integrity.
- **Documentation**: Maintain comprehensive documentation of test environment configurations, processes, and procedures.
- **Compliance & Security**: Ensure that test environments adhere to security protocols and compliance standards.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to troubleshoot performance issues, continuously refining testing strategies to meet evolving business needs and system architectures.

**You have**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a test environment management related role
- Knowledge of integration platforms like Mulesoft
- Strong communication skills to convey information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

**You are**:

- **Exceptional communicator** - Heightened interpersonal skills, you are comfortable communicating with stakeholders in different levels of the organization. Demonstrate confidence and provide highly specialized project delivery expertise and advice
- **Organized** - Good multi-tasking skills and the ability to prioritize work based on risk and business needs

**Posting Deadline: Posted until Filled**

**We offer**:

- We are the largest private-sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada.
- Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs.
- New employees receive between three to four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows — to a maximum of six weeks per year — as their length of service increases. In addition, full-time, permanent staff may be able to purchase extra days of vacation through our flexible benefits package.
- In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, Vancity provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness, plus opportunities to take unpaid leave for a variety of reasons.
- Our health care & dental benefits offer three levels of health care and dental coverage for you to select from. These benefits will also be effective immediately based on your hire date.
- We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at Vancity we will offer you a Defined pension plan that pays you a retirement income for life.

**Education**: Preferred
- Bachelors or better in Computer Science