We are seeking an experienced Release Manager to drive the end to endrelease lifecycle QA certification across multiple products and environments.
The role requires strong coordination across engineering QA DevOps and product teams ensuring predictablehigh addition the candidate should have worked in drivingQA processes and test automation enabling them to effectively drive release quality and readiness.
Key Responsibilities
1. Release Planning & Execution
- Own and manage the complete release lifecycle planning scheduling coordination deployment and validation
- Maintain release calendars dependencies and timelines
- Coordinate with development QA DevOps and product teams for release readiness
- Identifyand mitigate risks blockers and interdependencies
2. Release Governance & Quality Assurance
- Establish and enforce release governance quality gates and checklists
- Ensure releases meet quality standards working closely with QA teams
- Drive Go/No Godecisions based on readiness criteria
- Conduct post releasereviews toidentify opportunities for improvement
- Drive/lead continuous improvement initiatives to stabilize thedeployments
3. QA Collaboration & Quality Ownership
- Lead theQA teams to ensure:
- Adequate test coverage (functional regression integration)
- Proper defect tracking and closure before release
- Understand and support test automation efforts and their integration into CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure release readiness validation smoke testing and production verification
- Own certification forproduct releases monthly quarterly etc.
4. CI/CD & Deployment Management
- Collaborate with DevOps to manage andoptimize CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure smooth deployments across Dev QA UATPre Prod and Production environments
- Implement best practices for:
- Version control (Git)
- Branching strategies
- Automated deployment workflows
5. Stakeholder Communication & Alignment
- Act as the central pointof contact for releases
- Communicate release status risks timelines andimpacts clearly to stakeholders(CSMs customers and N7 leadership teams)
- Facilitate:
- Release planning meetings
- Go/No Gocalls
- Retrospectives
6. Risk Management & Continuous Improvement
- Track and improve key release metrics including:
- Deployment success rate
- Defect leakage
- Change failure rate
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR)
- Drive improvements in release predictability automation and quality
Key Skills & Qualifications
Technical Skills
- 10years of experience in Release Management / DevOps /QA alignedroles
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