Building the OPS team, which will manage UAT environment in three dimensions:
- Governance of the environment life cycle and assurance of its reliability
- Environment will require regular data refresh (from PROD), batch runs, handling the inevitable infra/app-layer errors etc.
- Team's goal is to orchestrate necessary activities among the parties (DBS teams) involved.
- Skills required: IT infra and application architecture acumen, allowing for effective discussions with SMEs and ability to plan and execute the necessary tasks.
- Utilization of the UAT environment for User testing
- Environment will be used by hundreds of teams and projects. The implies the need to orchestrate the testing calendar, liaise between the change-owners etc.
- Skills: process ownership experience, understanding of testing area, ability to understand dependencies between testing scopes/projects/applications etc, dashboarding and pitching to the senior management
- Applications onboarding to the End-to-End UAT
- While main part of the environment will be built as part of - already running - project, there will be continuous need to onboard UAT systems and make them part of the end-to-end UAT environment.
- Skills: similar to technical project manager - ability to orchestrate between infra/middle layer/application SMEs and ensure compliant and efficient process of adding new application to the environment.
