Release Manager

Qualifications:

Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree; OR appropriate combination of education and experience.

Job Responsibilities:

• Will own the Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating and the management of releases across the enterprise for multiple applications/teams and all stakeholder including client.
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
• Forward Plan the release windows and cycles.
• Manage or facilitate development, test and staging environments.
• Work with delivery teams to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (plus point).
• Versioning and rollback mechanism.
• Oversee the releases to adhere to Enterprise standard.
• Hold regular meetings to review the release plans, releases in progress and completed releases.
• Participate in Change Control meetings for Change Request approval.
• Conduct periodic reviews with respect to release readiness, schedule reviews, Go/No-Go reviews, Retrospectives.
• Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.

Job Related Knowledge & Skills:

• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated and independent learner.
• Should have exposure to tools like Jenkins, Apache Subversion, AWS & Octopus.
• Ability to handle multiple projects.
• Familiar with Agile development processes.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and verbal.