Release & QA Manager

Are you a highly skilled Release & QA Manager and you want to grow your career in an international IT security company with offices in Europe and the US?

We are a recognized leader within the Identity Governance & Administration domain and the most advanced SaaS platforms in the industry. Our vision is to “secure the world’s identities” and leverage our technology to enable companies to confidently do more with identity and enable business transformation.

Headquartered in Europe, Omada is a fast-growing cybersecurity software company with locations globally. We are looking for a Release and QA Manager to join the Leadership team in the Engineering department. You will play a vital role in delivering innovation fast to our customers through a robust release and quality assurance process. In your role, you will work closely with team members from our development centers in Denmark, Poland, and Spain.

 We are looking for a Release & QA Manager to join our team. In this role, you will ensure that our software releases are delivered on time, with high quality, and with minimal risk to the business. You will work closely with engineering teams, QA experts, and other stakeholders to communicate the scope, fulfillment of release criteria, identified risks, and progress. You will also remove impediments and improve quality and release standards.

Get challenged in your role as Release & QA Manager:

• Communicate the scope and fulfillment of release criteria, identify risks and progress to stakeholders, and work actively on removing impediments and improving quality and release standards with the engineering teams and QA Experts. 
• Ensure that Support and customer-facing teams have advanced knowledge of details of the features/fixes contained within each release.
• Notify all stakeholders of changes/delays for a release in a timely fashion.
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks to the release cycle.
• Escalate release-level impediments to help ensure delivery.
• Maintain relationships with business & technology stakeholders, including architects, Scrum teams, Documentation, Cloud Operations, Customer Success, and Product Management.
• Identify KPIs and provide tracking & reporting on release readiness and strategic development projects spanning multiple releases.
• Conduct post-mortems and implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve team reliability and transparency.
• Drive improvements toward pipeline-driven organization and automate all steps in the release and QA process.

You have:

• 5+ years of industry experience as a Release Manager within a cloud software environment, with a successful record of delivering complex systems or services, 
• Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering or equivalent
• Experience with Azure DevOps for builds, deployments, and test management is a plus.
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies.
• Experience working in distributed teams.

You:

• Love to play an active role in delivering value to customers and support the Engineering Teams in the last steps to get innovations into the hands of the customers.
• Are detail-oriented, yet able to look at a wide array of choices and identify what truly matters, problem-solving skills are a must, 
• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of business and technical leadership, 
• A comprehensive understanding of software processes (from specifications to testing and deployment) is critical in this role. 
• Previous knowledge of the Cyber Security domain is a plus.
• You should be open to new challenges, extremely good at multi-tasking, innovative, creative, self-directed, and a great team player.

We Offer 

Omada is a modern technology company with a highly skilled and passionate team. We have a strong culture based around Team. Omada is the Greek word for team!

Omada’s core values are Teamwork, Ambition, Deliver Value in everything we do, and Constant Care. We are seeking long-standing relationships with our employees as we believe in the mutual positive effects these provide. Omada offers flexible working conditions in a modern work environment, and we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

If this has caught your interest, apply now! We will interview on an ongoing basis, and the position will be filled when the right candidate is found.

Omada is an equal opportunity employer and qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class.

At Omada, we are experts in cybersecurity, taking our customers by the hand, helping them to take identity and access management to the next level. We offer you the opportunity to work with passionate, competent people, experts within their field, in an informal and agile organization with a flat structure. We thrive on being challenged and everything we do is anchored in our core values of ambition, teamwork, constant care, and creating value.

The Omada product is rated as one of the very best in the world by analyst firms like Gartner, Forrester, and KuppingerCole and we have a high focus on keep developing our product to meet our customers’ business requirements.