Release Management Manager

Role & responsibilities

Release Manager Skills:

Good hands on experience of using JIRA, confluence, Service Now

Basic knowledge on DevOps tools like Jenkins, Github, etc

Experience of working/leading in Agile scrum projects

Ability to coordinate between cross-functional teams

Excellent Communication Skills - verbal and written (mandatory)

Role and Responsibilities

Understand the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and plan the release windows and cycles across work streams

Manage/Identify risks and resolve issues that affect release scope and schedule

Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and they meet expectations

Handling Release in all lower like QA, CPV, Training and production environments.

Communicate all key project plans, commitments and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes

Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at onshore and offshore

Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and release Go/No-Go reviews

Produce Deployment Run Books and Implementation Plans

Release Reporting as and when needed

Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required

Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities

Work with release engineers/DevOps team to understand impacts of branches and code merges

Maintains the release schedule for all work streams and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.

Continually work towards making improvements in the release process

Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.

Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release activities

Maintains a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, notification lists, Runbooks

Should have experience of leading a 4 to 5 member team

Preferred candidate profile