Description
Role: Release Manager
Location: Helsingborg, Sweden
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
- Ensure that releases are planned well in advance of starting. This will include working with product owners to ensure that product backlogs are mature enough to be added to release backlogs and help plan the distribution of stories from the product backlog to release level backlogs
- co-ordinate with business, development, quality assurance and operations teams to ensure that releases meet all the necessary milestones and are delivered when they should be
- Report the status of releases, issues etc. to the appropriate organisational stakeholders
- work proactively with teams to resolve any issues that might hinder releases
- Should be proactive in suggesting and/or implementing any changes which might help improve the overall release process
Key Skills:
- Release Planning in an Agile environment working on several release trains at once
- Working as a Release Manager/Release Coordinator in an organisation with a service orientated architecture where you will be required to work with different vendors simulanteously
- Excellent meeting facilitator
- Work with other business units/vendors to ensure they deliver any necessary outputs in time
- Crisis management for releases (if needed)
- Excellent understanding of Agile - planning & execution