Role Overview:
We are seeking a Release Manager with a strong focus on Quality Assurance leadership. In this role, you will oversee the planning, coordination, and delivery of enterprise software releases while directly managing a QA team responsible for ensuring system integrity, performance, and quality. This includes defining and driving test strategies, managing QA resources, and ensuring successful and timely software deployments across environments
Roles & Responsiblities
- Lead end-to-end release management activities across enterprise applications, ensuring on-time delivery, adherence to scope, and quality standards.
- Own and continuously improve the release pipeline, including scheduling, coordination, risk management, and deployment planning.
- Manage the QA team responsible for manual and automated testing across all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Define QA strategy, standards, and best practices to align with release goals and overall IT strategy.
- Collaborate with development, product, infrastructure, and business teams to ensure smooth and efficient release cycles.
- Identify and mitigate release risks, issues, and dependencies; drive resolution of issues across cross-functional teams.
- Provide leadership in test environment management, test data creation, and release documentation.
- Coach and mentor QA engineers and team leads; promote a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and high performance.
- Establish clear KPIs for release success, QA effectiveness, defect metrics, and team productivity.
- Manage team capacity, workload distribution, and resource planning based on project priorities and release cadence.
- Participate in and contribute to IT budget planning related to release operations and QA resourcing.
Essential Skills
- Demonstrated experience in software release management, ideally within an enterprise application environment.
- Strong background in QA management, including test planning, execution, automation, and defect management.
- Deep understanding of Agile and DevOps practices; experience with CI/CD pipelines and release tools (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
- Ability to lead cross-functional efforts and manage multiple releases concurrently.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills; can translate technical details to stakeholders at all levels.
- Proven ability to coach, develop, and lead technical teams.
- High attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality software.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to anticipate, identify, and resolve complex issues.
Keyloop doesn’t require academic qualifications for this position. We select based on experience and potential, not credentials.We are also an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We value diversity and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
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