Release Manager

Position Description :

Founded in , CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94, 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 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at .

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 : J-

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