Lead Software Engineer (NRT+RM)

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre is seeking a Release Manager to oversee end-to-end release processes across multiple teams, including engineering, QA, and DevOps. The role focuses on calendar management, scope coordination, and readiness reviews to ensure smooth deployments.

The ideal candidate will have strong SDLC and CI/CD experience, test management skills, and a proactive approach to process improvements in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

SDLC knowledge

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps tooling

Test management

Automation frameworks

Configuration management

Deployment orchestration

Agile experience

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Ownership attitude

Pressure handling

Tools

Jenkins

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

NRT (Non‑Regression Testing) Management

• 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).

Environment & Deployment Oversight

• 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.

Quality Governance & Compliance

• 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.

Stakeholder Communication

• 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.

Required

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.

Why join us

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status”.

Business insight

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

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