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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior GCP Testing & Release Management Lead - **Company:** Shree Narayani Networking Solutions Pvt Ltd - **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $52,166.0 - $73,050.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Testing (Software), Application Release Automation, Automation of Tests, Identity and Access Management, Regression Testing, Release Management, Smoke Testing, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Strategies of Testing, Google Cloud, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Infrastructure Automation Frameworks - **Published:** August 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us67da881d6c82e35ca1c37f2e52cf5ee7 ## About the Role * 7+ years of experience in release management, testing, quality engineering, engineering governance, or a related discipline. * Strong hands-on or governance-level experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). * Proven experience managing enterprise release management and production deployment processes. * Strong understanding of software testing, regression testing, quality gates, and release readiness. * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and associated testing/review practices. * Experience working in regulated or highly governed enterprise environments. * Strong understanding of change management, deployment traceability, approvals, and audit evidence. * Experience coordinating multiple technical teams and managing complex dependencies. * Strong experience with go/no-go decisions, rollback planning, cutover, hypercare, and post-release validation. * Excellent communication, stakeholder management, documentation, and problem-solving skills. * Ability to work effectively with engineering, security, compliance, infrastructure, application, and operations teams., * Experience supporting large financial services or banking environments. * Experience with enterprise-scale GCP migrations or cloud transformation programs. * Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment controls, and release automation. * Experience establishing or improving engineering governance and operational controls. * Experience with incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives. ## Description We are seeking a Senior GCP Testing & Release Management Lead to support a regulated, enterprise-scale Google Cloud Platform (GCP) rollout. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in GCP, release management, testing/quality governance, and enterprise change management. This role will lead engineering governance across GCP platform and onboarding initiatives, ensuring that releases are safe, predictable, well-tested, fully documented, and audit-ready. The candidate will work closely with platform engineering, IAM, networking, security/compliance, application, and operations teams., * Own end-to-end release management and governance for GCP platform and onboarding changes, including release calendars, change approvals, go/no-go decisions, rollback criteria, and hypercare. * Define and enforce testing and quality gates for GCP and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) changes. * Establish test strategies, regression coverage requirements, environment promotion standards, and peer-review practices. * Lead release readiness assessments and post-release validation activities, including cutover checklists, smoke testing, monitoring verification, and release-window incident triage. * Establish and maintain standards for release documentation and evidence collection, including change records, test results, approvals, and deployment traceability. * Ensure release processes and documentation meet enterprise governance, risk, compliance, and audit requirements. * Coordinate dependencies across IAM, networking, security, compliance, GCP platform engineering, application development, and operations teams. * Drive timely decision-making, issue resolution, escalation, and cross-functional communication throughout the release lifecycle. * Identify recurring release defects, testing gaps, and process inefficiencies and lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions. * Drive continuous improvement and automation of release and quality-control checks. * Define and validate operational handoffs, including runbooks, support models, SLAs, knowledge-base documentation, and production-readiness criteria. * Ensure all teams and supporting processes are fully prepared for production deployment and ongoing operations. ## Related Videos - [GitOps for the people](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/815-gitops-for-the-people) - [Excellent Software Testing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/87-excellent-software-testing) - [Implementing smoke testing and proactive monitoring in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/171-implementing-smoke-testing-and-proactive-monitoring-in-production) - [The Cloud is Calling: Answer with In-Demand Skills](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/945-the-cloud-is-calling-answer-with-in-demand-skills) - [Testing .NET applications a Tool box for every developer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/704-testing-net-applications-a-tool-box-for-every-developer) - [How To Test A Ball of Mud](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/173-how-to-test-a-ball-of-mud) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Got AI ideas but no money? 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