Overall Responsibility:

• To create clear and comprehensive release and deployment management plans by building, installing, testing and deploying Release Packages efficiently, successfully and on schedule.

Role Responsibilities: 

• Deployment management of deliverables to the test environment, particularly guaranteeing that the external dependent items are available during the test runtime and live.
• Ensure that requirements are clear across dependent project streams with an effective release.
• Maintain release schedules for every core service and ensuring they aligns with major vendors and other stakeholders.
• Ensure that releases operate as per expectations and bugs/issues per release are tracked.
• Work with Product management to create release guidelines to distribute across poa! internet.
• Measure and monitor the progress of releases after deployment.
• Manage the Quality Assurance team to ensure work prioritization and output.
• Provide weekly updates on release activities.

Academic & Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering (or similar) OR equivalent relevant professional experience and education.
• At least 3 years of experience in IT Quality Assurance and Release Management.
• At least 2 years of experience working in project management and team management 

Key Competencies required for the role:

• Knowledge of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration (CD/CI) pipelines.
• Ability to use application-release automation (ARA) tools.
• Experience analyzing requirements, developing test approaches, writing comprehensive test plans and test cases, and preparing test data for data testing.
• Skilled in the design, development and implementation of processes and procedures that drive standardized management of application life-cycle activities.
• Experience applying Agile methodology to develop and execute application test plans including continuous integration and test-driven development.
• An understanding of quality assurance test methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, techniques and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Ability to conduct needs analysis using requirements for various business processes, including information flow, reporting and applications for defined functional area; ability to document using standard terminology and formatting.
• Knowledge and experience with JIRA for tracking of issues and tasks.
• Experience in managing and developing a Quality Assurance team. 
• Demonstrated experience with testing at various phases of life-cycle (unit, integration, system, acceptance, regression) and test efficiencies (p
• erformance, stress, capacity).