452 Release Manager jobs in India

Location :  RSU Tower, Sukhumvit 31, Bangkok, Thailand : Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products.  The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions.  SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans, Centralized location – 6 minutes’ walk from Phromphong BTS or 10 minutes’ walk from Sukhunvit MRT

• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Business Leave, Maternity Leave, Ordination Leave

• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Annual Health Check Up, Employee Assistance Program, Well-Stocked Pantry and Provident Fund Contribution

• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity

• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University

• Education: Paid further education opportunities for employees who are eligible

• Extra Perks: Bonus Scheme, SS&C Stock(s) Allocation for employees who are eligible

Reports to:   Head of Release & Deployment Management

What You Will Get To Do:

Role Overview

The Release Manager is responsible for the end-to-end management of the software release process. This includes planning, scheduling, communicating, coordinating, and overseeing software releases across multiple environments & multiple applications. The role requires extensive experience to manage and track the release lifecycle effectively. The Release Manager ensures that software releases are delivered on time, within scope, and with high quality.

Key Responsibilities

1. Release Planning and Coordination

• Develop and maintain detailed release deployment schedules, incorporating inputs from development, testing, and operations teams.

• Coordinate release activities and resources to ensure successful software deployments.

• Utilise Jira to track release progress, manage issues, and communicate updates.

2. Process Management:

• Establish, implement, and manage release processes for code through development, test, and production environments.

• Create and maintain documentation of release processes, roles, and responsibilities.

• Work closely with the rest of the release management team for cross training and overlap of application management, if applicable.

3. Communication:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for release communications between development, QA, operations, and other stakeholders.

• Provide regular status updates on release progress, issues, and risks.

• Chair release status meetings & other meetings as and when required and issue meeting minutes and documentation.

• Construct release content documentation and ensure release communications are made available to internal parties (and external clients when required), according to the published Release Deployment Schedule; and participate in any walk-through required or answer any questions arising from the documents.

4. Risk Management:

• Identify, document, and mitigate risks associated with the releases process.

• Ensure comprehensive impact analysis and risk assessments are conducted for each release cycle.

5. Quality Assurance:

• Ensure that all releases are thoroughly tested and validated at each stage of the release process.

• Collaborate with QA teams to develop and implement effective testing strategies.

• Review & help manage with the QA lead, any defects raised during testing.  Understanding their severities and timelines for fixing.

6. Deployment & Live Implementation:

• Prepare live implementation runbooks and ensure these are agreed with all parties.

• Coordinate and manage the deployment of software releases, ensuring minimal impact on service availability, mid-week and/or weekends.

• Arrange and manage any client confidence testing required post live implementation.

• Oversee post-live activities & releases, including the collection and documentation of lessons learned.

7. Continuous Improvement:

• Continuously refine and improve release management processes, leveraging Jira and other tools to enhance efficiency.

• Promote the adoption of best practices in release management and automation.

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in software release management, configuration management, or a related field.

• Extensive experience with Jira, including configuration, workflow management, and report generation.

• Proven experience in a DevOps environment is highly desirable.

Skills:

• In-depth understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.

• Strong project management and organisational skills.  Including being able to prioritise effectively to ensure deadlines are met.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Superior communication and interpersonal skills.  Including confidence to chair & participate in meetings.

• Accountable of the completion of objectives and tasks within given timelines

• Working in co-operation with other people in a way that maximizes personal effectiveness, encourages teamwork and achieves the required outcomes.

Certifications:

• ITIL Foundation, JIRA administration, or other relevant certifications are a plus.

 Key Competencies:

• Leadership: Ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software releases.

• Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail to ensure reliability and quality in releases.

• Adaptability: Capacity to adapt to changing priorities and manage multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.

• Problem-solving: Strong problem-solving skills to address and resolve issues promptly.

• Collaboration: Excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.

This role is essential for ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of software products to customers. The Release Manager will play a key role in optimising the release process, contributing to the delivery of successful releases and customer satisfaction.

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SS&C Financial Services International Limited
Human Resources Department - Talent Acquisition
6th Floor, RSU Tower 571 Sukhumvit Road
North Klongton, Wattana, Bangkok 10110
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About the job:

As a Release Manager, you will orchestrate the end-to-end release lifecycle, ensuring secure, timely deployments of our fintech platforms. You'll bridge Engineering, QA, DevOps, Developers, Software Architects and Product teams, leveraging automation and governance to minimize risk and maximize reliability in our CI/CD pipelines.

Fintech team is dedicated to building a better end to end payments capability that will support the current flex card program, filter spend, simplify merchant integrations as the point of sale but also for web and mobile marketplaces. The capabilities of the payment capabilities should then be able to extend various other medical claims processes now and in the future. You will work with developers on open-source project and technologies that will allow us to be build platforms at scale as well as benefit from the latest innovations in speed, simplicity, and security.

Responsibilities:

Release Planning & Coordination:

• Own the release calendar, coordinating across backend (.NET), frontend (React Native), and QA automation teams.

• efine release milestones, dependencies, and rollback strategies, ensuring alignment with Agile sprints.

• C air release readiness reviews (Go/No-Go meetings) with stakeholders.

CI/CD Pipeline Management:

• O ersee Azure DevOps/Jenkins pipelines, integrating QA automation suites (Selenium, JMeter) and backend/frontend builds.

• E force version control (GitHub/TFS) and artifact management (Docker, Helm).

• A tomate release notes, changelogs, and compliance documentation (PCI-DSS, NACHA).

Risk & Compliance:

• I plement fintech-specific safeguards (audit trails, rollback testing).

• T ack risks using Azure DevOps/Jira and ensure compliance with security standards.

Cross-Team Collaboration:

• P rtner with QA Automation Leads to validate release candidates.

• W rk with Backend Developers on database migrations (SQL/NoSQL) and Frontend Teams on app store deployments (Google Play/App Store Connect).

• T ain teams on release best practices (feature flags, canary deployments).

Post-Release:

• M nitor production health (logs, metrics via Splunk/New Relic).

• L ad post-mortems to improve future releases.

Qualifications:

• 7 years in QA Automation , with 3+ years in a leadership role.

• 5 years in release management or DevOps, preferably in fintech/payments.

• E pertise in CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins) and scripting (Bash, Python).

• S rong grasp of SDLC/Agile and QA automation integration (Selenium, RestAssured).

• E perience with database deployments (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CosmosDB).

• K owledge of cloud platforms (Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).

Nice to have:

• C rtifications: ITIL, Azure DevOps.

• F miliarity with mobile app releases (React Native, App Store/Play Console).

Release Manager Tech Stack:

CI/CD & DevOps

• P pelines: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

• V rsion Control: GitHub, TFS

• C ntainers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

QA & Testing Integration:

• A tomation: Selenium, RestAssured, Appium, JMeter

• R porting: Allure Reports, Klov

Backend & Databases:

• L nguages/Frameworks: .NET (C#), Java

• D tabases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Frontend & Mobile:

• M bile: React Native (iOS/Android)

• A p Stores: Google Play Console, App Store Connect

Monitoring & Compliance

• M nitoring: Splunk, New Relic

• C mpliance: PCI-DSS Audits, HIPPA

Job Description:

We seek a highly skilled and experienced QA / Release Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will drive the quality and timely release of our products. This role involves defining testing procedures, implementing test automation, and certifying readiness for release to production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and implement comprehensive testing procedures.
• Choose and implement test automation tools and strategies.
• Certify and approve software readiness for production releases.
• Ensure all Jira work items include agreed-upon definitions of done (DoD) to ensure proper text coverage.
• Collaborate with the development and product teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of software releases.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in software quality assurance and release management.
• Strong knowledge of test automation tools and methodologies.
• Experience with Jira and other project management tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with the Atlassian Cloud platform.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Application Process: Interested candidates should submit their resume and a cover letter detailing their experience and qualifications for the role

Purpose

The Customer Relationship Management Platforms department is one of six strategic units within the Corporate IT division Digital Experience Platforms. In this department, we design and implement core CRM IT applications with a focus on the sales and service processes for our strategic business units and the sales and service companies worldwide.

As a Release Manager, you play a crucial role in planning, coordinating, and executing CRM Salesforce system releases. You ensure smooth deployment, quality assurance, and effective communication with various stakeholders while managing risks and maintaining compliance.

Role and Responsibilities

· As a Release Manager CRM Platforms you are responsible for managing the deployment of CRM Salesforce system releases, coordinating tasks, monitor progress, and ensure that releases are deployed according to schedule, following established deployment procedures and best practices

· You are managing Salesforce system environments (development, testing, production) and ensure that the environments are properly configured and maintained, with the necessary data subsets and security measures.

· You are collaborating with architects, business users, CRM integration domain experts, developers, and other IT teams, to plan and coordinate CRM Salesforce system releases and rollouts.

· You coordinate environment refreshes, backups, and version control to support development and testing activities

· As the Release Manager you are identifying and managing risks associated with system releases and define appropriate mitigation strategies and ensure compliance and quality standards

· You provide regular updates on release progress, changes, and potential impacts

· You facilitate release planning meetings and post-release reviews

· You are responsible for the Maintenance of release-related documentation, including release notes, deployment instructions, and known issues

· As part of continuous improvement, you are actively looking for improvements to improve the release management process

Your profile

· Successful completion of studies in informatics or business informatics or comparable relevant IT education

· 3 to 5 years of professional experience in Release Management environment with Salesforce Sales / Service Cloud

· Very good knowledge of Salesforce development tools such as Apex, Visualforce and Lightning Components

· Knowledge of tools such as JIRA, Azure Dev Ops for task tracking and project coordination

· Experience in planning, coordinating and implementing Salesforce software releases

· Familiarity with version control systems and knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g. Copado, Bitbucket)

· Experience in project management, especially in the agile environment

· You have excellent communication skills and the ability to complete assigned work with minimal instruction, as well as identify and apply best practices, standards and SW development lifecycle concepts to all functional areas

· High initiative and strong team skills as well as customer and goal orientation

· Business fluent in English and a good level of German round off your profile

ZEISS in India

ZEISS in India is headquartered in Bengaluru and present in the fields of Industrial Quality Solutions, Research Microscopy Solutions, Medical Technology, Vision Care and Sports & Cine Optics.

ZEISS India has 3 production facilities, R&D center, Global IT services and about 40 Sales & Service offices in almost all Tier I and Tier II cities in India. With 2200+ employees and continued investments over 25 years in India, ZEISS’ success story in India is continuing at a rapid pace. Further information at ZEISS India ( )