Senior Release Manager

Company: Wipro Technologies
Location: Greensboro
Posted on: November 26, 2022

Job Description:

Title: Release Management ConsultantLocation: USAExperience: 10+ YearsDrive Adoption of a Value Stream Management Tool for a Global client:

• Work with the business to implement a Value Stream Management Tool across portfolios
• Forward Plan the release windows and cycles across portfolios
• Work with the business to establish release metrics
• Manage and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations
• Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the software successfully
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Weekly Release Reporting
• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required
• Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities
• Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges
• Maintain the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists
• Participate in meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
• Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected
• Schedule the CAB meetings to discuss the release schedules with the team and find roadblocks, if any.
• Produce Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans
• Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications lists, and dependencies.SKILLSET
  • [Must] 2-6 years of previous release and/or project management experience, (Solid understanding of project management principles preferred)
  • [Must] Strong Working knowledge of various Release Management tools like Plutora, CI/C environments and tools like Confluence, Jira, Stash
  • [Must] Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
  • [Must] Experience in handling delivery of Programs
  • [Must] Experience in Assessment and Recommendation of various Release management strategies and process
  • [Must] Experience with release strategies surrounding feature toggles
  • [Must] Experience with Agile based SDLC methodologies
  • [Required] Technically skilled in release management with blue-green, canary, rolling based approaches, monitoring, compliance, disaster recovery approach Agile DevSecOps Consulting

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