Release Engineer 12 month FTC

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

The role of a Release Engineer is to provide release management services across CPD project delivery teams. Working alongside Project & Test Managers to ensure core functional deliveries from Product & Engineering (P&E) and configuration layers from Professional Services (PS) are released in a controlled and timely manner.

Day-to-day activities will focus on analysing release notes provided from P&E (core) or PS (config) to assess the code coverage within a release, and its application touch points.

Working with the Test Manager / Lead Release Engineer to understand risks to enact a code release, ensuring no impact on inflight testing, whilst rejecting if entry criteria to commence a release hasn't been achieved. As a release engineer within the testing team, you will work alongside testing to ensure the STLC (Software Testing Lifecyle) stage gates are adhered to, obtaining the appropriate approvals to commence a release into an environment.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following.

• Working with Project Managers, Test Managers, Lead Release Engineer to agree timeframes for release of new / amended code to System Test, BAT (Business Acceptance Test), Pre-Production (User Acceptance Testing) and ultimately into live environments for project planning purposes.
• Analysing release notes from P&E and PS to determine the level of testing needed from the CPD test teams, noting risks if timescales are too tight to do a thorough test cycle.
• As a Release Engineer you will be responsible for scheduling, planning, and progressing of a release across the various environment stage gates, as per the STLC and Release Management Lifecycle protocols.
• Setting up the new test environments in co-ordination with the technical services
• Change control - monitor changes to an original release (build or patch) for impact analysis and capture these changes within a traceability matrix or within ADO/Jira
• Log and monitor the paths to production for a particular release, ensuring the matrix for version controls is updated accordingly.
• Working with test CPD testing team, support defect resolution, fast-tracking fixes through to production, whilst ensuring Release Management stage gates for deployments are followed.
• Utilise the standard deployment tools, as prescribed within the Release Management protocols, templates used and the Test Policy adhered to for both applications, Compendia and Administrator
• Ensure successful delivery and conclusion of all release management activities to meet the project target date, as captured in the release calendars.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

• The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills, and behaviours:
• ·Be ISEB foundation qualified is desirable in either IT Assets & Infrastructure or Software Testing (ISTQB - foundation)
• ·Have demonstrable experience of reviewing, validating, and updating release management documentation so they can become client facing papers
• Experience of working in fault review sessions, coordinating with the testers for defect resolution
• Have experience of working with the UAT/BAT teams to support final delivery to our clients.
• Must be technical competent to perform release engineering activities, such as:
  • SQL scripting experience,
  • An understanding of DevOps tools like Docker, GIT or ADO,
  • Basic knowledge of configuration management and version controls,
  • Experience of working on software deployment tools, to achiever a stable environment for testing and operation activities to commence,
  • Experience to cooperate with Developers and Configuration Analysts where there has been release failures.

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off - Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
• Learning & Development - Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks