Test and Release Manager for Mobile Applications

This is an indvidual contributor position responsible for Techinical Release Management for Mobile Applications and is primarily responsible for overseeing the quality of releases from lower environments to production environments. This position requires supporting, managing and ensuring quality of software deliverables, scope and schedule. This position will work closely with internal customers, third party vendors and senior management.

Role Responsabilities

• Candidate must have strong leadership communication skills and the ability to lead meetings and discussions related to release and change management.
• This position will regularly interface and communicate with software testers, scrum masters, IT operations, and the release management team. The candidate must have the confidence to provide reporting and updates to senior management and line of business.
• The candidate must have good automation skills as maintaining smoke tests is a requirement.
• Develop common strategies for release governance across multiple tracks
• Own and Facilitate cross-team coordination of release functions across multiple geographies
• This person will also work side-by-side with testers and debuggers to perform tests and solve bugs in applications.
• Communicate and hold accountable all persons involved with release schedules
• Monitors overall project performance against plan and adjusts as needed. Communicate release status, activity progress and issues encountered .
• Ensures adherence to established processes and policies (e.g. SDLC including domain standards, standards).
• Drives allocation of resources, establishes schedules, and task assignments to ensure proper project management practices are in place.
• Manages the work of own project team and ensures alignment of team member skills and strengths with project demands.
• Requests and manages internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands.
• Maintain the release schedule for all applications
• Scope review – When release intakes are approved, will review, and understand the type of release, dependencies and identify the validation required

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Computer Science, MIS or related field
• 6+ years of IT or related business experience
• 3+ years of experience managing full life cycle of applications in an Agile environment (resource allocation, reporting process to stakeholders, creating release schedules, daily stand-ups)
• 3+ years’ experience managing releases for mobile applications
• 3+ years’ experience in Mobile testing
• 3+ years’ experience in debugging mobile applications
• 1 - 2 years’ experience of scripting with Java/Selenium
• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence or similar