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Let’s talk about the role and responsibilities:

A Release Train Manager is responsible for ensuring the successful program management of enterprise releases. This involves scoping, packaging, ensuring test completion, overseeing deployments, ensuring smooth handover to operations. Release Manager handles the full programs of work for all incoming and the existing work that flows from the planning phase, initial requirements phase, funding allocation. The role has close matrixed control of the full lifecycle of Testing & Release services.

Responsibilities:

Planning and Coordination:

• Kick-off Sessions: The Release Manager conducts comprehensive kick-off sessions to outline the scope, project criticality, stakeholders, schedule, architecture considerations, testing and data requirements, environment dependencies, business readiness requirements, and deployment dormancy approaches for the capabilities included in the release.
• Complexity Assessments: They also manage to assess the release complexity of capabilities in the release releases.
• RAID Tracking: They are responsible for tracking Risks, Actions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) at the release level, ensuring that potential obstacles are identified and managed proactively.

Assisting Testing and Shakeouts:

• Test Campaign Preparation: The Release Manager ensures that all preparations for the test campaign are completed, coordinating with relevant teams and unblocking any challenges to guarantee that test environments, test cases and data are ready.
• Initial Shakeout: They manage initial shakeout of the capabilities to identify any immediate issues and ensure that the release is stable before proceeding to broader testing phases.
• Manage Major Issues that are found during testing

Scope and Change Management:

• Scope Changes: The Release Manager tracks and reviews any scope changes to the releases, ensuring that all modifications are documented, assessed for impact, and communicated to stakeholders.
• Recovery Plans: They monitor struggling capabilities, develop recovery plans, and track their implementation to bring them back on track.

Deployment and Post-Release Activities:

• Production Deployment: The Release Manager assists with the production deployment, taking the lead in running hyper care production war rooms to address any issues that arise during the deployment phase.
• Retrospectives: After each release

Let's talk about the team:

Capgemini Testing Service Line provides Testing and related Environment/DevOps services to various financial clients. This service produces clearly identifiable results, notably the reduction in the cost of software development and maintenance by up to 30%, enhanced quality levels, improved time to market, and importantly mitigation of technical and business risks.

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