Description
Software Release Consultant
Watford (Flexible working)
My major client in Watford is looking for a release coordinator, to join their software release team on a contract basis, until the end of January.
Main responsibilities and skills below;
- Interface and communicate with Release Manager, Test Manager Dev Managers, IT Ops and the PMO daily
- Define and agree release and deployment plans with E-commerce Stakeholders
- Collaborate and coordinate Releases with key stakeholders and third parties for E-commerce
- Ensure that change request is created owned and managed during the release and deployment activities
- Prepare artefacts such as Release Calendar and Deployment plan
- Coordinate with development and testing teams on multiple release cycles and ensure testing is done extensively to predefined acceptance criteria in lower environments and production like environments (Stage) before go-live
- Maintain release notes and work with Dev tech leads to ensure its ready for deployments
- Weekly updates to E-commerce program team on activities, progress and release milestones
- Work with E-commerce Environment Lead to understand and communicate on the lower environment availability/maintenance/downtime
- Communicate deployment progress for lower environments and Production
- Create, maintain and own Production Implementation plan/Change Request
- Ensure appropriate environment configurations are updated and maintained for all parties involved
- Facilitate CAB meetings
- Ensure all approvals are in place for planned Production Release Deployment
- Work closely with Release Manager on Signoff and GO, No Go decisions
- Check that any problems, known errors and workarounds are documented and accepted by the stake holders
- A post implementation review of a deployment is conducted through change management
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