Environment Tester

Capio Group•Sacramento, CA

5d•$112,000 - $117,000

About The Position

Capio Group is seeking an experienced Environment Tester Lead to provide QA/QC services supporting enterprise applications. The work covers end-to-end test planning and execution, automation, performance engineering, environment and test data coordination, and defect management. Activities are performed under client direction using approved tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, ALM, UFT, and LoadRunner Enterprise. Automation may use UFT (VBScript), Selenium, and/or Katalon integrated with CI/CD. The role provides test-cycle summary reports, coverage dashboards, and defect metrics, including density, leakage, and aging. The position coordinates, provisions, and manages non-production testing environments throughout the SDLC and manages the test data needed across those environments. Responsibilities include environment configuration and provisioning, availability monitoring, scheduling and conflict resolution, integration validation, incident management and recovery, data creation and provisioning, masking and anonymization, refresh and synchronization, synthetic data generation, compliance with security and privacy requirements, and support for data-driven testing. The role coordinates with infrastructure and development teams to provision and maintain environments, manages access and security controls, monitors stability, supports deployments and configuration updates, resolves environment issues, and documents configurations and dependencies. It also identifies, creates, provisions, and maintains test data for functional, integration, automation, performance, and UAT testing. For UAT, the lead defines data requirements, provisions and masks datasets, aligns data refreshes with UAT windows, delivers a data-readiness checklist, and obtains business sign-off before UAT begins. This is a full-time employee position in Sacramento with a stated salary range of $112,000 to $117,000. Capio Group describes itself as a California-based IT consulting firm serving the public sector and says it offers a flexible workplace and work-life balance.

Requirements

Within the last 10 years, at least 5 years of experience in electronic data processing systems study, design, and programming.
Within the last 10 years, at least 3 years of experience in electronic data processing systems study, design, and programming in a lead capacity.
Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field; additional qualifying experience may substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis. A copy of the degree must be provided upon request.
Within the last 10 years, at least 5 years of experience in software engineering or IT systems development.
Within the last 10 years, at least 3 years of experience in test environment management, including planning and coordination.
Within the last 10 years, at least 3 years of experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure, databases, and integrations.
Within the last 10 years, at least 3 years of experience integrating environment activities with CI/CD pipelines.
Within the last 10 years, at least 3 years of experience managing environment-related incidents, including risk identification, issue triage, root cause analysis, rollback coordination, and environment recovery.
Must be able to provide client/user reference contact information for each applicable project upon request and submit completed reference forms when requested. Each form must be signed by a reference who represented the company for which the project was developed and served in a management or supervisory role.

Nice To Haves

Within the last 10 years, at least 7 years of cumulative experience supporting enterprise application environments.
Within the last 10 years, at least 1 year of experience supporting large-scale enterprise benefit systems, such as Unemployment Insurance or Disability Insurance, meeting the stated large-scale system criteria.
Within the last 10 years, at least 3 years of experience with test data tools and platforms such as AWS S3, AWS RDS, MS SQL, and AWS EC2.
One or more of the following certifications: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level 1. A copy of the certification must be provided upon request.
Master’s degree in Business Administration, IT, or Engineering. A copy of the degree must be provided upon request.

Responsibilities

Coordinate, provision, and manage non-production testing environments across the SDLC.
Coordinate with infrastructure and development teams to provision and maintain testing environments.
Monitor environment availability and stability to ensure environments are ready for scheduled testing.
Coordinate environment configuration updates and system deployments required for testing cycles.
Manage environment access requests and ensure appropriate security controls are implemented.
Identify and resolve environment-related issues affecting testing activities.
Maintain documentation of environment configurations and dependencies.
Manage test data needed to support testing activities across environments.
Identify test data requirements for functional, integration, automation, and performance testing.
Create, provision, and maintain test data across supported testing environments.
Mask and anonymize data to protect sensitive information; validate that sampled data does not expose PII and provide masking validation reports.
Coordinate test data refresh cycles to ensure environments contain relevant and usable datasets.
Generate synthetic data or subsets of production data as needed for test scenarios.
Ensure test data management complies with client security and privacy policies.
Define UAT data requirements, including scenarios, roles, and test accounts; provision and mask datasets; seed or refresh data for UAT windows; deliver a data-readiness checklist; and obtain business sign-off before UAT starts.
Support end-to-end test planning and execution, automation, performance engineering, and defect management.
Provide per-cycle test summary reports, coverage dashboards, and defect metrics, including density, leakage, and aging.