Release Developer 3

The Oracle E-Business Suite Quality and Release Management (QRM) team is a dynamic team of individuals focused on delivering high-quality packaged software products to customers. QRM Release team is a critical group of E-Business Suite Release management.

The Release Engineering team in the Quality and Release Management (QRM) group primarily performs code build, packaging, Install and Upgrade testing, and certifying Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Application releases at the suite-wide and family level.
QRM Release team responsibilities include:

• Release planning, Code Build, Packaging, Install and Upgrade testing, and certifying the following release packs with a wide range of technologies: Oracle E-Business Suite-wide Maintenance Packs (MP), Release Update Packs (RUP), Product Family Packs, Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Releases, and Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions.
• Software configuration management and maintenance, e.g. source control area configuration, branching, forking.
• Design, development, and execution of release packaging processes and standards.
• Design, development, and maintenance of release critical systems and reports to automate release packaging processes and standards validation.
• Oracle E-Business Suite install, upgrades, maintenance, and patching as part of certifying release update packs.
• Install testing and certifying all the supported NLS languages for EBS.
• Creating the Rapid Install Shiphome, Media Pack and delivering them to customers.
• Collaboration with product development, QA, product, and program management teams to help improve the product development process.
Collaboration with documentation teams to provide installation and upgrade steps and review the documentation accuracy from the technical point of view.

Job details

• Manage the delivery of product releases from inception to deployment
• Develop and enforce “install and upgrade” processes and standards
• Execute install and upgrade tests, triaging issues of any complexity related to those tests
• Promote configuration management and release management best practices to product teams
• Debug and test install and upgrade defects of any complexity, across multiple products, providing feedback about the appropriate way to deliver a fix and handle customer escalations
• Build highly complex enhancements and resolve complex bugs. Build and execute unit tests and unit plans.
• Provide training and best practices support on the use of internal tools and utilities
• Drive enhancements to the central tools team when necessary, and/or design and develop automation to serve core responsibilities when appropriate
• Contribute to functional and technical designs and reviews for install and upgrade
• Contribute to the definition of team processes, standards, strategy, and goals
• Influence the addition of new and/or significantly re-engineered processes across release projects using innovative approaches including automation.

General Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field
• 4 to 10 years of software engineering or related experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to interact and follow up with multiple teams
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills and basic project management skills
• Deliver medium to complex projects on time and with a high degree of quality
• Team player with the ability to multitask with minimal supervision and high reliability
• Strong drive to learn, with a "problem-solving" attitude
• Knowledge of Oracle E-Business Suite is advantageous but not essential.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Good knowledge of Build and Release practices, Configuration or Change management principles, and Continuous Build integration and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with software configuration management tools or change control software (like GIT, SVN, CVS, etc).
• Hands-on experience with CI tools and Build Tools (like Maven, Hudson, Jenkins, etc.).
• Exposure to Jira, Confluence, JSON, and Python is a plus.
• Experience in product release and build process automation.
• Strong Unix shell/Perl/awk scripting skills.
• Demonstration of programming skills in SQL, PLSQL, and web technologies.
• Experience with software builds, and deployment testing is a strong plus.
• Good knowledge of Oracle Database is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of Oracle E-Business Suite is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of Oracle E-Business Suite install, upgrades, patching, and maintenance is a strong plus.
• Exposure to Oracle Fusion Middleware is a strong plus.
• Exposure to Oracle VM VirtualBox and Oracle VM server is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of REST API and how to make REST Calls is a strong plus.
• Exposure to Cloud technologies, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a strong plus.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will perform high-level design based on provided external specifications. Specify, design and implement minor changes to existing software architecture. Build highly complex enhancements and resolve complex bugs. Build and execute unit tests and unit plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering as necessary to discuss minor changes to product functionality and to ensure quality and consistency across specific products.