Job Description

Job Description

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) Applications 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 (GIT, SVN, CVS, etc).
• Experience in product release and build process automation.
• Experience with software builds, install and upgrade testing is a strong plus.
• Strong Unix shell/Perl/awk scripting skills.
• Demonstration of programming skills in SQL, PLSQL, and web technologies.
• Good knowledge of Oracle Database.
• Knowledge of Oracle E-Business Suite is a strong plus. 
• Good knowledge of Oracle E-Business Suite install, upgrades, patching, and maintenance.
• 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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a strong plus. 
• Exposure and practice in using the DBMS to optimize the performance of large databases for enterprise use is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with CI tools and Build Tools (Maven, Hudson, Jenkins, etc.) is a plus.
• Exposure to Jira, Confluence, JSON, and Python is a plus.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.