About the role
- Own and maintain the release calendar, ensuring alignment across engineering squads, QA, DevOps, and business teams.
- Coordinate release scope, timelines, and freeze periods.
- Facilitate release readiness reviews, Go/No‑Go meetings, and post‑release retrospectives.
- Define, maintain, and optimize NRT plans, ensuring comprehensive coverage for all critical components.
- Test execution (manual/automation) across all required environments.
- Ensure timely defect triage, prioritization, and follow‑up with engineering teams.
- Validate build stability before promoting to higher environments (QA/STAGE/PROD).
- Collaborate with DevOps to manage CI/CD pipelines and environment availability.
- Validate deployment packages, configuration changes, and infrastructure readiness.
- Monitor deployment progress and troubleshoot issues during release windows.
- Maintain versioning and configuration control of all releases.
- Ensure adherence to release policies, audit controls, and compliance requirements.
- Track release KPIs such as deployment success rate, NRT coverage, rollback occurrences, and defect leakage.
- Identify and implement process improvements to increase release reliability and reduce cycle times.
- Provide clear, concise communication about release status, risks, and impacts to all stakeholders.
- Publish release notes, deployment artifacts, and change logs.
Act as the primary escalation point for release‑related issues.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling (DevOps, Jenkins, Git, etc.)
- Experience in test management and automation frameworks.
- Comfortable with configuration management, branching strategies, and deployment orchestration.
- Highly motivated, good communication, ability to follow the open point till the closure is expected
- Good in verbal and written communication
- Agile environment exposure preferred
- Ownership attitude & good influencing skill is expected
- Excellent coordination, communication, and stakeholder management.
- Ability to work under pressure during release cycles.
- Detail‑oriented with a passion for process improvement.