Lead Software Engineer (NRT+RM) - Innovation / Project / Organization - Bangalore, India

Societe Generale SA; Bengaluru; Presencial; INR 2 000 000 - 3 500 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Societe Generale SA in Bengaluru, India is seeking a Release Manager to own calendar, coordinate scope, and ensure readiness across engineering, QA, and DevOps teams. You will lead NRT planning, test automation, and deployment oversight in a fast‑paced, governance‑driven environment.

The role requires strong SDLC/DevOps understanding, excellent communication, and the ability to work under pressure during release cycles while driving process improvements and KPI tracking.

Qualificações

• Solid understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling.
• Experience in test management and automation frameworks.
• Comfortable with configuration management, branching strategies, and deployment orchestration.
• Excellent coordination, communication, and stakeholder management.

Responsabilidades

• Own and maintain the release calendar with cross‑functional teams.
• Define, maintain, and optimize NRT plans and test execution across environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps to manage CI/CD pipelines and environment readiness.
• Ensure release governance, audit controls, and KPI tracking for deployments.
• Publish release notes and act as escalation point for release issues.

Conhecimentos

SDLC knowledge

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps tooling

Communication skills

Pressure handling

Ferramentas

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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.

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.

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!Still hesitating?You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.We are committed to support accelerating our Group’s ESG strategy by implementing ESG principles in all our activities and policies. They are translated in our business activity (ESG assessment, reporting, project management or IT activities), our work environment and in our responsible practices for environment protection.