Release Manager at Stratostaff

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define the standard process for planning, testing, scheduling, and deploying the releases.

• Own the responsibility of preparing a Release Plan. Coordinates with Change Management team Build team and other key stakeholders regarding the same.

• Assign and track release activities with various teams.

• Packaging, controlling, and integrating the release components as per the dependencies identified. 

• Coordinate the release schedule and resources required both internally and from third parties.

• Coordinate with the Build team to build the release and produce the build document, which will contain.

  • Build, installation and test plans, procedures and scripts.

  • Monitoring and quality assurance of the release

  • Processes and procedures for distributing, deploying, and installing the release into the target environment.

  • Release unit roll-back procedures

  • Change remediation steps in case of release failure.

• Ensure that all mandatory tests are conducted, and all tests are successful as per the success criteria before a release can be flagged off to production.

• Obtain the approvals for downtime-related information wherever necessary in advance and ensure that communications are send out to all stakeholders as per the release plan

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

• Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the releases successfully.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• Professional qualification: ITIL Foundation and Project Management
• At least 5 years experience in Release management in a large environment working multiple systems with 3 years supervisory experience
• At least 4 years experience in Applications Support, Infrastructure Support (Hardware & Network)
• Experience with IT Service Management processes
• Project Management experience