Release Manager L1

Job Description

Role Purpose

The purpose of the role is to plan, schedule and control the deployment of releases to test and analyze the impact of changes/ bugs to ensure production readiness before they are executed across the production environment by follow the standards for release management relevant to a platform/ technology.

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Do

• Release Management
  
  
  
  • Change management
    
    
    
    • Identify change incidents (new enhancements/ production bugs or fixes) and record all artefacts for the request 
    
    
    • Coordinate with the change management board for approval of any significant/ major change request
    
    
    • Updation of records and Set up release calendar with well-defined milestones to be achieved for all the releases
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Release planning to deployment across a platform
  
  
  
  • Drive process integration of release management with change and configuration management through ITIL or through business quality demands for individual services
  
  
  • Manage and coordinate monthly & quarterly release plans based on scope of enhancements 
  
  
  • Define roadmap based on used cases and oversee all builds and deployment of releases to production and non-production environments 
  
  
  • Coordinate with Application team, Delivery team and PMO’s and define scope of enhancement across the portfolio
  
  
  • Create release management support roadmap (planning  build  deployment  early life support closure) and call out dependencies both upstream and downstream defining high level execution plan 
  
  
  • Align all the key stakeholders with the change request and timely inform them wrt to the change requests (ex downtime etc)
  
  
  • Research and maintain new user stories  and technologies and analyze their application and relevance for release and deployment 
  
  
  • Manage risks, resolve issues that affect release scope, quality and schedule and control one to multiple changes in a release unit 
  
  
  
  

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• Collaborate with delivery team in development, testing and pre-product for all the releases before production


• Coordinate change requests backlogs pending requests and conduct reviews 


• Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies and notification lists


• Ensure green zone time for code implementation/deployment after thorough testing and analysis by the development & testing team


• Periodic reporting to senior management after every release about all implemented changes providing details on those successfully implemented, rolled back or cancelled changes

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Deliver

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