Description

Role Overview:

The Release Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering software releases across multiple environments in a controlled, predictable, and efficient manner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate software releases across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Own and maintain the release calendar, ensuring alignment with business priorities and avoiding conflicts across teams and applications.
• Coordinate release activities with DevOps, Development, QA, Infrastructure, and Client stakeholders.
• Ensure all release artifacts—including builds, release notes, deployment scripts, and rollback plans—are complete, reviewed, and approved prior to deployment.
• Enforce release governance, change management processes, and compliance standards in accordance with organizational policies.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate release risks; manage cross team dependencies and resolve scheduling or delivery conflicts.
• Lead release planning, readiness, and playbook meetings; provide clear and timely release status communications to stakeholders.
• Support incident management activities related to releases and lead post deployment issue analysis and resolution.
• Drive continuous improvement of release management processes, automation, and tooling to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Maintain accurate documentation, including runbooks, release procedures, and deployment standards.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in IT, software delivery, DevOps, or release management.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and release orchestration.
• Proficiency with source code and release management tools such as Git and GitLab.
• Working knowledge of change management frameworks (e.g., ITIL).
• Proven experience coordinating releases across multiple teams and applications.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent releases in a fast paced environment.
• Knowledge of automation through scripting or coding (e.g., shell scripts, Python, etc.).
• Experience managing JIRA stories, releases, and workflows.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with integration platforms, preferably MuleSoft.
• Familiarity with API led connectivity and frameworks, including Experience, Process, and System APIs.
• Knowledge of test automation and monitoring tools.
• Experience with JIRA automation and workflow optimization.
• Experience with tools like SOAPUI and Postman

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate