Release Engineer, Quality Engineering
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The Quality Engineering (QE) team is looking for a Release Engineer who can work in a highly collaborative environment, conduct production and internal beta releases, make release readiness decisions, assess risks to users and actively drive measures to mitigate them.
Responsibilities:
- Manage all aspects of the internal beta and production app release process
- Lead operations for Production iOS and Android releases on a rotational basis
- Communicate all key release milestones, requirements and changes to the organization
- Manage cross-functional relationships and ensure there is healthy communication among Engineering, QA, Design and Release teams
- Help build and maintain release and developer productivity dashboards
- Write operational runbooks and documentation to support the Release team as needed
- Research new technologies and release management methodologies for application in internal tooling improvements
- Continuously assess risk factors to our Production users and actively drive mitigation strategies
- Manage risk and mitigate issues that could affect release reliability and stability
- Conduct release readiness reviews, launch communications for releases and post-mortem meetings as required
- Investigate, escalate and drive solutions for emergent or complex technical issues
- Provide contextual judgement and use data to drive decisions
- Provide after-hours support as necessary
- Monitor and provide regular status reports to leadership and the organization
- Measure, monitor and report on key release metrics weekly and ad-hoc as needed
Who You Might Be:
- 5+ years in a technical capacity with 2+ years in release management or TPM capacity
- Experience managing mobile application releases and a deep understanding of release management principles
- 2+ years of development experience building web dashboards for internal metric tracking
- Experience working with Python, java or a similar web development language
- Basic knowledge of writing shell scripts, web development and databases is preferred.
- Experience working cross-functionally with globally distributed teams that have differing business priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence and convey messages to a wide range of stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills and experience utilizing tools to visualize trends and key metric monitoring
- Experience making critical decisions for complex technical issues in real time, considering timelines and urgency
- Strong attention to detail and ability to execute
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Bitrise, Jenkins, Fastlane, CircleCI or equivalent tools
- Experience working with App Store Connect and Google PlayStore Console
- BA/BS in computer science or any related technical field (or equivalent work experience)
- Experience enabling change in a high velocity environment
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