Release Manager

Hi,
 My name is Manit and I am a Technical Recruiter, Talent Acquisition for KTek Resourcing. K-Tek Resourcing, Inc. is an innovative force in the IT Staffing Industry. Based in Houston, TX. We are Tier one vendors to major pharmaceutical/financial companies and other fortune clients and for same we are searching forward to a Need of Release Manager,  Parsippany, Nj.
 Specific responsibilities:-·        Define and formulate releases and ensure alignment to established software development processes in an effort to meet business          needs.·         Define, track, and manage release content and schedules - A comprehensive plan that integrates all the inputs and outputs          of release planning activities.         This includes the creation of release plans with dependencies.·        Lead and provide direction to all affected teams to ensure software release activities are managed and coordinated           accordingly.·         Schedule and facilitate release planning and status meetings to review changes to releases and/or resolve items of          intense or moderate concern.·        Schedule and manage environments and appropriately allocate environment resources based on priority.·         Develop risk management mitigation (prioritization) when support teams are faced with schedule/ budget/resource          constraints·         Responsible for planning, coordinating and leading of production readiness meetings for all software releases and          secure approvals from support teams as well as Senior Management to continue with production deployment.·        Ensures and collects release specific metrics to define a quality release.·        Works across the organization to improve and enforce development, testing, release and documentation standards in conjunction         with the development life cycle.·       Ensure deliverables are completed within target time frames and are consistently high-quality.
Experience/Certificates/Education:-
Ø  Minimum 3 -5 years direct experience of release management.Ø  Proven experience in overseeing the implementation of application releases to a production environment.Ø  Experience with scheduling and managing Development/Integration, QA, Staging and Production environments.Ø  Direct, hands-on experience with project management tools.Ø  Strong knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.Ø  Extensive experience with core software applications.Working knowledge of the Software Development Life cycle.Ø  Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
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Country: USA, State: New Jersey, City: Parsippany, Company: K-Tek Resourcing LLC.