Release Manager

Job Duties : 

Release Planning : Collaborate with PD teams and Tech teams to create release schedules and coordinate efforts.

Regression Testing : Run regressions for real-time APIs and share the regression reports to the teams in a timely manner.

Release Activities : Perform various release activities - aligning teams, creating slack channels and ensuring that the details of the releases are communicated without any alignment gaps. 

Risk Management : Identify if there is any potential risk after running the regression testing with unknown errors, unclaimed mismatches and wrong decisions on the applications.

Documentation : Ensure the release calendars and necessary documentation are created and maintained properly.

Quality Assurance : Work closely with PD and tech teams to ensure all the changes are tested religiously and efficiently for the release.

Deployment : Oversee the release deployments to production environments, ensuring there are no gaps in the release processes; also, all the required teams have tested their changes and there are no failures in the production.

Continuous Improvement : Analyze past releases to identify areas for improvement in the release process.

Oversee Release Management Team : Oversee the whole release management team for any new suggestion, give KTs in case there is any new information or process.

Expectations: 

• Must know how to write shell scripts. 
• Must have a good knowledge in Linux OS.
• Must know how to look for errors in a log file.
• Must have a good knowledge on how to write technical documentation.
• Must have worked in Software Development Life Cycle.
• Must have knowledge in different testing experiences - unit testing, parallel testing, regression testing.
• Must have good communication skills.
• Must know how to write SQLs.
• Must have knowledge in JSON files.
• Better to have an idea of how to code in any 1 of the languages - Java, Python, C++.
• Better to have knowledge in remote desktops.
• Better to have knowledge in development and production environments - E2, E3.
• Better to have knowledge on Service Now, Confluence, JIRA.
• Better to have experience in HIVE or BIG DATA.
• Better to have troubleshooting and analytical skills.