Project/Release Coordinator

Type - SOW Contract 6 months plus, can go many years

Visa-USC/GC

Location - 2525 Story Road W, Irving, Texas 75038. All 5 days in office - 8 hours a day.

May have to work remotely sometimes during off peak hours and weekends to support any deployments.

Top things needed:

• At least 5 years in a Project/Release Coordinator role. Experience must be current, and we should see Release Coordination/ Release Management, Change Control in most of the resume.
• At least 4 years experience working domestically in the United States.
• Strong understanding and experience working with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience working on large, complex projects - multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience working for an enterprise organization – Fortune 500 company.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum framework.
• Nice to have:
• Experience working as a Developer or QA tester in the past. Progression into Project/ Release Coordinator role.

Job Description -

Our client is seeking a Project/Release Coordinator. Job duties include:

Plan, direct and coordinate Change and Release activities for changes/code delivery, Application updates as required.

Work with Scrum, Project, and Operations Teams to assist in the creation or upgrade of a Product/Component, per Enterprise vision and plans.

Plan and follow up on development and testing schedules, various project and operations-related tasks and activities that may be critical in the team’s everyday functioning.

Ensure consistency in code versions across environments, failures, lessons learned, Release Roadmaps etc.

Drive changes to Distribution and non-Distribution capabilities that may be required to support/stabilize updates to existing systems and new technologies.

Create Design, Release, deployment documents etc. to support these changes.

Attend Change Control Board meetings to facilitate, follow-up, verify completeness of documentation and a holistic validation of new Change requests coming in.

Support Environment build out, stabilization and decommissioning activities, as and when needed.

Help with application and interface testing and coordinate testing effort with various functional partners.

Requirements include:

At least 5 years in a Project/Release Coordinator role. Experience must be current.

Strong understanding and experience working with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Experience working on large, complex projects - multiple projects simultaneously.

Experience working for an enterprise organization – Fortune 500 company.

Experience with Agile/Scrum framework.