Lead, Release Manager

Coordinate, monitor and maintain development/testing environments across multiple teams to know what is going on where at any given point in time 

Mitigate issues in said environments and work with vendors as necessary to permanently resolve issues 

Recommend approaches to streamline and integrate technological processes in the organization to improve overall release management efficiencies 

Plan, co-ordinate and facilitate production deployments 

Collaborates efficiently and effectively with several stakeholders including but not limited to Developers, QA, BA, Architects, DevOps Engineers, and other team members to drive releases 

Maintain up-to-date documentation for tickets, deployments, environments, procedures, etc. 

Manage the release pipeline towards QA, Staging and Production deployments 

Ensure that a release satisfies all exit criteria requirements (ensure completeness of release document) 

Track, monitor and report in environments and releases daily, weekly, and monthly at various management forums as required from time to time 

Manages risks and resolves issues related to release schedule and code quality 

Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews 

Produce Deployment Plans and delivery runbooks 

Release delivering to production on-time with zero disruptions to our existing business and customers.  

Coordinate patching and maintenance activities with vendors for environments. 

Ensure that application versions are correctly deployed to the appropriate test environment for each phase of testing. 

Coordination of test data in lower environments are according to testing requirements.