Release Engineer Manager #666238BR

Best Buy Co., Inc. in Seattle, WA has multiple openings for a Release Engineer Manager.

• To lead the continuous transformation of Best Buy release processes and systems for rapidly growing e-commerce platform, including mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange, inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems
• Plan the automation road map and present to the stakeholders and leadership team;
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to determine automation can benefit each party;
• Assist in prioritizing tasks and unblocking obstacles as project progresses;
• Manage the building and deployment of code for complex software to environments to support release process;
• Code applications in both web and service oriented environments using scripting languages including Java, Swift, Shell, Perl, Python, and Ruby;
• Coordinate development teams to resolve conflicts with code;
• Direct modifications of existing software to correct errors, adapt to new devices and improve performance;
• Lead the resolution of code related performance issues utilizing Java, Linux, TCP/IP, Apache and automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Ant and Maven;
• Manage app deployments for Quality Assurance and Stage environments;
• Provide technical expertise in e-commerce to support release processes and systems for e-commerce platform and associated applications; and ensure timely resolution of critical/complex problems with different platforms in multiple environments, including necessary communication including project management, business stakeholders and operations;
• Lead the team in maintaining infrastructure used by mobile builds and testing processes;
• Updating OS, 3rd party libraries and all down-stream dependencies;
• Performing poc on new build systems and distribution systems to improve ci/cd process; and administering code repos for build notifications, approvals for branching strategy, merge and pull request requirements;
• Manage Android and iOS automation team (on site and off-shore) and support team members with career development;
• Serve as technical resource to the leadership team (home app(s), retail, and digital assistant) to advise on processes and design implementations.

Requires:  

M.S. degree in Engineering Management, plus two (2) years of experience creating and maintaining automation processes and CI/CD environments for apps on multiple platforms; creating Automated Test Suites to bridge gaps in processes, as well as mocks to help with testing and development; and managing backlogs for automation, CI/CD, and roadmaps; and setting up CI/CD build pipelines based on the environment.

Experience must include at least one year of experience working in the consumer retail industry building Jenkins servers in a Linux environment, CI/CD for multiple projects and integrated quality, creating UI test suite using Espresso, and maintaining automation backlogs and roadmaps.