Test Lead & Release Manager

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Chennai - India

profile Monthly Salary: INR 10 - 10
profile Experience Required: 5years
Posted on: 30+ days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Department: Digital

Location: Chennai

Reports To: Leader - Digital Transformation and Customer Platforms

Grade: Manager / Senior Manager (depending on experience)

Role Purpose

The Test Lead & Release Manager will play a dual role in ensuring digital platform quality
and controlled release management across enterprise ecosystem.
This role combines testing leadership to ensure product readiness reliability and
integration quality with release governance to coordinate validate and manage
production rollouts across multiple business systems.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

A. Test Strategy & Quality Assurance
Define and maintain a unified test strategy and governance framework across all GMMCO
digital products.
Develop detailed test plans test cases and acceptance criteria for functional integration
and regression testing.
Establish a centralized test repository with traceability to business requirements and UAT
outcomes.
Lead manual and automated testing efforts to ensure high-quality defect-free product
releases.
Implement automation frameworks to increase regression coverage and shorten release
cycles.

B. Release Planning & Coordination
Own the end-to-end release calendar across all internal and customer-facing platforms.
Coordinate release readiness reviews with Digital IT and business teams.
Manage release environments ensuring proper version control configuration
management and rollback planning.
Ensure test sign-offs change documentation and release approvals are completed as per
governance standards.
Maintain visibility of all planned releases hotfixes and maintenance windows.

C. Stakeholder Management
Serve as the single point of contact for release scheduling readiness and issue escalation.
Collaborate with Product Managers Developers Business Analysts and Platform Owners
to align test and release plans.
Partner with Deloitte and other system integrators to ensure controlled deployments
aligned with program timelines.
Communicate release scope impact and dependencies clearly to leadership and business
users.

D. Automation Tools & Reporting
Lead the adoption of test automation for regression and API testing (using Selenium
TestNG Postman JMeter Power Automate etc.).
Integrate testing and release activities within CI/CD pipelines to enable faster high-
quality deployments.
Establish and maintain QA and Release dashboards to track defect density release cycle
time and quality metrics.
Monitor release health post go-live and coordinate hypercare support and stabilization
activities.

E. Governance & Continuous Improvement
Institutionalize Testing & Release Governance frameworks.
Conduct periodic audits of release management processes and environment consistency.
Lead post-release retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities and lessons
learned.
Drive a culture of Quality by Design and Release Discipline across Digital and IT teams.

Benefits

Education & Experience

Bachelors degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Information Technology.
Certifications in ISTQB ITIL Agile Testing or Release Management preferred.
1014 years of experience in Software Testing Release Management or QA Governance
including at least 35 years in a lead role.
Hands-on experience in enterprise-scale digital systems testing and deployment (ERP
CRM HRMS WMS etc.).
Proven experience with test automation release planning and CI/CD environments.
Exposure to SAP testing integration validation and data migration testing desirable.
Strong understanding of Agile/DevOps frameworks and cross-system release
orchestration.


Required Skills:

Key Responsibilities A. Test Strategy & Quality Assurance Define and maintain a unified test strategy and governance framework across all GMMCO digital products. Develop detailed test plans test cases and acceptance criteria for functional integration and regression testing. Establish a centralized test repository with traceability to business requirements and UAT outcomes. Lead manual and automated testing efforts to ensure high-quality defect-free product releases. Implement automation frameworks to increase regression coverage and shorten release cycles. B. Release Planning & Coordination Own the end-to-end release calendar across all internal and customer-facing platforms. Coordinate release readiness reviews with Digital IT and business teams. Manage release environments ensuring proper version control configuration management and rollback planning. Ensure test sign-offs change documentation and release approvals are completed as per governance standards. Maintain visibility of all planned releases hotfixes and maintenance windows. C. Stakeholder Management Serve as the single point of contact for release scheduling readiness and issue escalation. Collaborate with Product Managers Developers Business Analysts and Platform Owners to align test and release plans. Partner with Deloitte and other system integrators to ensure controlled deployments aligned with program timelines. Communicate release scope impact and dependencies clearly to leadership and business users. D. Automation Tools & Reporting Lead the adoption of test automation for regression and API testing (using Selenium TestNG Postman JMeter Power Automate etc.). Integrate testing and release activities within CI/CD pipelines to enable faster high- quality deployments. Establish and maintain QA and Release dashboards to track defect density release cycle time and quality metrics. Monitor release health post go-live and coordinate hypercare support and stabilization activities. E. Governance & Continuous Improvement Institutionalize Testing & Release Governance frameworks. Conduct periodic audits of release management processes and environment consistency. Lead post-release retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities and lessons learned. Drive a culture of Quality by Design and Release Discipline across Digital and IT teams.


Required Education:

Bachelors degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Information Technology

Department: Digital Location: ChennaiReports To: Leader - Digital Transformation and Customer PlatformsGrade: Manager / Senior Manager (depending on experience)Role PurposeThe Test Lead & Release Manager will play a dual role in ensuring digital platform qualityand controlled release management acro...
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