Senior Release Manager
Qwinix, United States
Job Description
Who We Are
Qwinix is a cloud-native consultancy and Google Cloud Partner. Driven by a distinguished engineering core, Qwinix works with clients to modernize their infrastructure, develop powerful digital experiences and processes, and strategically adopt innovative cloud solutions.
We are on a mission to close the gap between next and now. Through great people and great technology, we are able to solve the world’s most pressing problems and build remarkable experiences, processes, and products for our clients.
We pride ourselves on fostering a growth-centric culture through every step of a Qwinix employee's journey. From comprehensive onboarding practices to career development incentives, we strive to help our employees build a brighter tomorrow for themselves and their clients.
The Release Manager is responsible for the planning, execution, communication, monitoring, and reporting of release deployments at the enterprise level. This role works closely with front-line engineers and testers, as well as business stakeholders and executive leadership.
What You Will Do during the release cycle
- Communicating release content, key milestones, status, risks, and next steps
- Monitoring and facilitating change requests
- Coordinating Drop to Test and Deployment activities
- Holding Retrospectives after each Deployment with key stakeholders and impacted teams to capture lessons learned and document actionable process improvements
- Providing a release Report Card for Deployment
Primary Responsibilities:
- Coordination and communication to key stakeholders on release schedules, content, status, and key milestones.
- Facilitate, document, and distribute notes from daily / weekly / ad hoc cross-functional meetings to track status, identify risks, and implement mitigation plans during each release cycle
- Tag release-related software change requests to the appropriate release cycle and ensure they are in the correct state by the predefined timeline
- Work across infrastructure, development, data, and test teams on drop to test day and release deployment.
- Lead release day efforts and communications until completion when the bridge shuts down, sending the final report.
- Identify, utilize, and communicate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to drive relentless continuous process improvement efforts by establishing performance baselines and tracking progress towards target benchmarks
- Lead post-release cycle retrospective meetings to identify areas of success, opportunity, and lessons learned and document these outcomes to generate ideas to improve technology, systems and processes.
Who You Are
- BS or BA with 3-10 years of project or program management experience; or equivalent experience in enterprise release/testing, or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
- Professional demeanor and strong organizational skills and the ability to communicate effectively (both in writing and verbally, in person and virtually) and to interact effectively with software engineers, test teams, program managers, business partners, IT leadership and executive leadership is required.
- Demonstrated strong collaboration and facilitation skills are preferred.
- IT experience, having a working knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and Project / Release Management is desired.
- IT experience with Microservices, Service Mesh products, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and canary deployments is preferred
- Previous hands-on experience with full-stack development and testing is preferred
- Experience using and extracting data from Rally, Service Now, HP ALM or similar tools is desired.
- Strong competency using Google Suite is preferred
Where You Will be Located
Onsite - Eaglewood, Colorado
What Action You Need to Take
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Why this work is important
We are dedicated to delivering quality customer service and, most importantly, compassionate support during times of need for their customers.
Qwinix is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, veteran’s st