Lead Software Engineer (NRT+RM)

Responsibilities

Release Planning & Coordination

• Own and maintain the release calendar, ensuring alignment across engineering squads, QA, DevOps, and business teams.
• Coordinate release scope, timelines, and freeze periods.
• Facilitate release readiness reviews, Go/No‑Go meetings, and post‑release retrospectives.

• Define, maintain, and optimize NRT plans, ensuring comprehensive coverage for all critical components.
• Test execution (manual/automation) across all required environments.
• Ensure timely defect triage, prioritization, and follow‑up with engineering teams.
• Validate build stability before promoting to higher environments (QA/STAGE/PROD).

• Collaborate with DevOps to manage CI/CD pipelines and environment availability.
• Validate deployment packages, configuration changes, and infrastructure readiness.
• Monitor deployment progress and troubleshoot issues during release windows.
• Maintain versioning and configuration control of all releases.

• Ensure adherence to release policies, audit controls, and compliance requirements.
• Track release KPIs such as deployment success rate, NRT coverage, rollback occurrences, and defect leakage.
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase release reliability and reduce cycle times.

• Provide clear, concise communication about release status, risks, and impacts to all stakeholders.
• Publish release notes, deployment artifacts, and change logs.

• Act as the primary escalation point for release‑related issues.

  
  
  

Profile required

• Strong understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling (DevOps, Jenkins, Git, etc.)
• Experience in test management and automation frameworks.
• Comfortable with configuration management, branching strategies, and deployment orchestration.
• Highly motivated, good communication, ability to follow the open point till the closure is expected
• Good in verbal and written communication
• Agile environment exposure preferred
• Ownership attitude & good influencing skill is expected
• Excellent coordination, communication, and stakeholder management.
• Ability to work under pressure during release cycles.
• Detail‑oriented with a passion for process improvement.