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Azure DevOps Administrator

Role Purpose:

The Azure DevOps Administrator configures, maintains, and governs Azure DevOps (ADO) for Program Nova.

The role ensures ADO supports requirements, test planning and execution, test-script management, defects, traceability, reporting, and programme governance. The postholder works closely with QA, Payroll, SMEs, programme leadership, and delivery partners.

Key Responsibilities

- Administer ADO projects, teams, boards, backlogs, repositories, Test Plans, dashboards, queries, notifications, and permissions.
- Maintain work item types, fields, forms, workflows, states, rules, tags, templates, area paths, iterations, and team configurations.
- Configure and govern workflows for requirements, test cases, test suites, defects, risks, issues, actions, and change requests.
- Maintain defect lifecycle configuration, including statuses, transitions, required fields, categories, and reporting.
- Support creation and maintenance of test-script templates, test plans, test suites, test cases, configurations, and execution reporting.
- Ensure traceability between requirements, test scenarios, test cases, defects, and releases.
- Build and maintain dashboards, queries,



and reports covering execution, defects, risks, coverage, blockers, and readiness.
- Manage user access, security groups, stakeholder access, and role-based permissions.
- Support programme governance reporting and data extraction.
- Act as the primary ADO contact for Program Nova, providing user guidance and resolving configuration, access, workflow, reporting, and usability issues.
- Liaise with McCormick IT, enterprise ADO administrators, and delivery partners where broader platform support is needed.

Essential Experience:

- Demonstrable experience administering Azure DevOps in a complex programme or enterprise environment.
- Experience configuring ADO Boards, Test Plans, dashboards, queries, permissions, work-item types, workflows, and test-script templates.
- Experience supporting solution delivery, system implementation and defect management.
- Solid understanding of requirements traceability, test-case management, defect lifecycle management, and reporting.
- Experience managing access controls and permissions in a controlled delivery workplace.
- Experience working with delivery partners, business SMEs, QA teams, and technical teams.

📌 Azure DevOps Administrator (India)
🏢 Bench Talent Cloud
📍 India