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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Performance Parameter
Measure

		1
		Release Management
		For Daily/ weekly/ monthly quarterly deployments release assessment score

		2
		Release Management
		Green zone time for code deployment

		3
		Release Management
		Timely Record maintenance (repository of releases as per change requests)

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