Release Managment Lead

Description & Requirements

The Release Lead keeps planned software scope moving through the requirement, development, testing, and development planned release flow.

The release lead will be primarily responsible for Creating the Release Roadmap, working with principle delivery teams (i.e, Infrastructure, BA, Development, and Test Engineering) to estimate and plan use cases / user stories in a given release structure.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Apply systems analysis and testing techniques and procedures to ensure software or system functional specifications are correctly identified.
- Create test-related work products (test cases/scripts, test datasets, test validation and verification results etc.) per testing standards and procedures.
- Prepare any required reporting documentation for the respective testing activities.
- Ensure adherence to performance standards and best practices during testing

Project Specific Responsibilities:

- Own / Maintain the release planning process and release methodology

- Manage the "path to production" through scheduled deployments from each environment

- Manage the backlog of use cases through estimation and placement to a given release

- Coordinate each release schedule and resources required depending upon scheduled scope

- Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected

- Track the progress and find issues, if any.

Always work to improve the process of release

- Make sure that the release is planned, according to the requirements and budget

- Schedule the release readiness reviews before deployment and milestone reviews after each release

- Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the software successfully

- Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management.

- Communicate the release related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc.

between different teams

- Plan and give weekly updates on the release activities

- Speak at CAB meetings to discuss the release schedules with the team and find roadblocks, if any

- Manage and communicate changes due to release scope business changes in priority

- Setup JIRA Release Management Plans in JIRA and communicate to key internal and external stakeholders

- Identify and approach problem and draw valid solutions to mitigate

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree in related field.

- 5-7 years of relevant professional experience required.

- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of degree.

Project Specific Requirements:

- Excellent verbal and communication skills (ability to present the facts)

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree with work experience

- Five years or more experience as a Release Technician or Release Lead

- Knowledge of JIRA, Release Management Tools

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