Release Planning, Management, Standards and Processes 45%Facilitates release planning meetings with key stakeholders to identify proper sequencing of release packages. Ensures that issues and risks are identified, understood, and dealt with in a manner that mitigates risk to scope and schedule.Defines and documents the release recommendation for each release. Includes release scope, schedule, deliverables, and roll back plan. Oversees release decisions and processes in terms of the big picture/cross-departmental impacts.Maintains release management schedule for specific (or assigned) system(s).Coordinates documentation and communication on all changes for a release.Attends change management and deployment planning meetings to collect data and information pertaining to the release. 40%Pursues IT and Project compliance with release acceptance criteria.Coordinates and schedules key change activities. This includes the tracking of all elements with team leads as the project moves through testing regions.Supports release execution by monitoring of each phase of the release.Provides release coordination and communication during and after deployment. 10%Identifies opportunities to make tactical improvements to the release management process.Coordinates documentation maintenance of all processes.Participate in creation of release management standards to be followed.Collects feedback from the users of release management standards and identifies the need to modify or retire a standard based on the feedback.Integrates the release process with other IT processes.Works closely with Change and Configuration Management team to stay current on all change, configuration and internal controls standards and processes. 5%Strictly manages timing and coordination of test runs with competing projects.Manages overall non-production environment usage, configuration, and scheduling of the different test environments for each release.

Responsibilities: Develop and document application test plans based on software requirements and technical specifications; Execute established test plans:o Accurately record and clearly document actual results compared to expected results o Fully document any unexpected anomalies identified in testing with instructions of how to recreate the anomaly Maintain well organized records of test results and generate historical analysis Work with technical writer to produce configuration guides and end-user documentation Interface with software development teams to provide testing feedback and bug reports Perform advanced software testing including stress and performance tests

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