Release Manager

Job description

Position Description:

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.

Job Title: Release Manager
Position: SSE/ LA
Experience:4 to 8
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Shift: General Shift
Main location: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad
Position ID: J0825-0223
Employment Type: Full Time
Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
Job Description
• Mange Test environments, facilitate deployments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (development, QA, operations, project management) to ensure smooth and timely deployments to the target environments.
• Tracking & ensuring the desired content is deployed to an environment.
• Lead Go-Live activities, including deployment planning, execution, and post-release support.
• Conduct release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and business go/no-go decisions.
• Maintain release documentation, including runbooks, implementation plans, and release notes.
• Identify and manage risks related to release, schedule, and quality.
• Continuously improve release processes and tools to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Track and report release metrics and KPIs to stakeholders.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Monitor progress of software releases from inception to delivery.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure timely and successful releases
• Develop and implement release, branching & merging strategies and schedules
• Identify and manage risks that may affect release schedule, and quality
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Communicate release details and schedules to the stakeholders
• Lead and coordinate release activities with Project Management, Development, QA, and Operations teams
• Provide continuous improvement feedback to the release process

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Required skills
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent degree with 6-10 years
• Proven experience as a Release Manager or in a similar role in software development or IT operations.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), branching & merging strategy and DevOps practices.
• Experience with release management tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git, Jira, Azure DevOps).
• Excellent project management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple releases simultaneously.
• Familiarity with SAFe, Agile, Scrum, and ITIL methodologies.

Preferred skills

• Experience in Insurance Domain (Non-Life insurance preferred)
• Certifications on Agile/Release Managemnt
• Experience to customize Test Automation Framework
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline management (Jenkins/Git/Bitbucket/ Bamboo)
• Experienced in Agile / Scrum methodology and familiar with tools like Jira, Confluence, Splunk,
• Excellent technical leadership and communication skills with proven ability in collaborating with clients, onsite counterparts, third party vendors & team members

Skills:

·  MySQL
·  Release Management
·  DevOps
·  GIT
·  GIT
·  Insurance
·  Jenkins

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.