Build & Release Engineer

About Our Client :

Our Client is one of the world’s largest providers of financial services with custodial assets of more than $2.6 trillion, including managed assets of $ 1.3 trillion as of July 31, 2006. Our Client offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, human resources and benefits outsourcing services to more than 22 million individuals and institutions as well as through 5,500 financial intermediaries.Headquartered in Boston, we have more than 40,000 employees located across 23 countries on 4 continents.Our Client is committed to continuous improvement, state-of-the-art technology and peerless customer service. We reinvest a substantial portion of our revenues each year back into technology to deliver new products and services to investors.Our Client started its Indian operations in September, 2001 at Gurgaon and later expanded to Bangalore in November, 2003. Our Client India was started with the mission to strengthen Our Client’s position as the most trusted provider of lifetime Investment solutions by providing state of art and cutting-edge technology products and solutions. Currently we have over 5000 employees in India, with 6000+ employees in IT & BPO services. We have now added Chennai as our 3rd delivery location.

Job Description - Role Overview

This position is responsible for developing and implementing software builds for our development, testing and production environments. The Build master collaborates with Development, Testing and Infrastructure teams to promote changes through development and testing iterations through production implementation. The Build master drives and delivers automated build solutions as well as coordinating branch management with all applicable phases of the SDLC.

Our objective is to establish continuous integration best practices in putting together Daily or Frequent Builds, and significantly reduce the time it takes to build the entire system. All components of the solution need to be part of the build process and the code will be pulled from ClearCase/SVN directly.

Core Skills

• Clearcase, ANT, SVN, PVCS, Cruisecontrol/IBM BuildForge, UNIX, an understanding of Java is preferred

Personal Characteristics

• Self motivated, self-starter, team-player
• Excellent inter-team relationship skills
• Delivery and results focused
• Good communication skills

Key Responsibilities

• Building and deploying software releases
• Create, maintain and manage software deployment automation
• Software continuous integration and build automation
• Administering and maintaining version control, version control software, code repository and backup files
• Supporting and executing 3rd party software/product updates and integration in build process
• Work with Quality Assurance team to introduce test automation into the build and deploy routines, facilitate testing, and coordinate release activities.
• Identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving problems with the build process and ensures the release has been accepted by all parties
• Establish communication channel to communicate successful release to targeted groups
• Analyzing and recommending corrective action and/or resolving build and release failures
• Continually seeking methods to enhance and improve upon current Build processes
• Flexible work hours are required


Experience and Qualifications

Expert Knowledge in Areas
• Extensive knowledge (3-5 years) in being able to build large enterprise grade application architectures with diverse IBM and J2EE technology stacks
• Expertise in ANT
• Expertise in using Clearcase as the source code repository with proficiency in SVN/PVCS
• Expertise with continuous integration toolsets like CruiseControl, IBM BuildForge
• Good knowledge of agile SDLC, software configuration management practices, release management methodologies and production deployment.

Working Knowledge in Areas
• Unix Shell scripting
• Websphere configuration


For more details please call on the job options 9818904477/9818303447/9910437099