Urgent Client Requirement : Release Manager : DE : Phone Interview

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Hi,
Please go through the following requirement and send me resumes of your available candidates on Dhruv@riderconsultinginc.com

Role : Release Manager

Location : Newark, DE

Length : 6-12 months

Start : ASAP
Interview : phone

Environments Engineer / Release Management & Test Support responsibilities will include:

· Owns the maintenance and provision of the environments. Such as, set up, installation, connectivity, databases, configuration, user access requests, availability, database refreshing and right sizing.

· Collaborates by working with DBA's, Linux SA's and AD teams to resolve any environment issue during or after release installations. Raising and actively pursuing Enterprise Quality Centre issues and so on.

· Deployments – Delivering the actual code deployments via the approved architectural approaches. Followed by simple smoke tests to ensure deployment completion. Escalating when issues arise to the relevant teams to resolve any break downs in the process. Sending issues to the correct owners so, they can be routed efficiently.

· Being the non-prod first line for Triaging of all Enterprise Quality Centre issues within an agreed SLA.

· Tracking – Auditing and monitoring releases within the test environments, providing data statistics back to Testers when required. Revealing what lies "behind the curtain".

· Maintaining the environment integrity. (Monitoring process status, Qpid queue depths and so on). Performs regular checks of system components for errors and application of necessary corrective action.

· Versatility as demonstrated with troubleshooting diverse sets of hosting technologies (web server platforms, Java application platforms, operating systems, network components, database platforms) is strongly desired.

· Continual process improvement for infrastructure as software e.g. automation of the environment prep steps, automation of the smoke testing and so on.

· More efficient rationalisation of set up, better management of the environments to a defined standard which benefits from the experience and lessons learnt.

· Release Implementation – Prepping for weekend releases, developing the implementation scripts, validating the deployment binaries.

· Document all process and systems on company Sharepoint.

· Co-ordinate DCPP & STS Test Demand and manage environment allocation per project/demand

· Co-ordinate release deployments into UAT.

· Co-ordinate / Plan Dress Rehearsals and Releases into Production

· Monitor test issues (UAT) via Enterprise Quality Centre and Morgan Messenger Forums

· Schedule of Release dates & publish calendar for DCPP

· ITSM tracking and reporting

· Pre, Post & DR incident tracking and reporting

Skill Set

· Proficient in the following Microsoft tools: MS Excel, MS Access, and MS Project

· Strong written and verbal communication skills