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Description
The Application Portfolio & Release Manager checks, standardizes, manages and statistically analyzes all app based information which is relevant for the Windows 10+ project. Furthermore the candidate is the key person between engineering, software portfolio management, and the application portfolio management tool team.
Background
The company has launched the project for the global Windows 10 migration and is seeking support for the project initiation and define phase. Extension of the role past these phases desired if candidate is a good fit.
The following items will be upgraded:
* Windows 7 to Windows 10
* Internet Explorer 10 to Internet Explorer 11
* Microsoft Office 2010 to Microsoft Office 2016
As an Application Readiness Workstream, you will handle all business application-related topics around the migrations. It consisting of packaged and web applications compatibility testing and remediation support as well as support for locally installed and MS Office application readiness assessment.
Purpose
You will manage the data analysis (which is also part of a quality gate), build reporting services and represent app based requirements within the client release process of the Windows 10 project.
The role is to cover the following aspects of the Application Readiness Workstream:
Management and automated processing of application portfolio including KPI definition and reporting
High-level test coordination
Liaison to Engineering for coordination for new client Releases and related apps testing efforts
Liaison to Business Application Owners for Windows client requirements and problems
You will manage all app information from the different app categories and provide reporting services to different stakeholder.
The reporting needs to provide weekly reports which allow trends for early identification and elimination of upcoming project delays.
You will also develop these reports from the data available in the SQL database of the application portfolio management tool.
This includes identification which reports are required for which target audience, design of the reports, and automated creation and publishing of the reports.
During Initiate and Define phase, you will set up the reporting services (designing and implementing the KPIs and reports), evaluate the process how to freeze the application start portfolio and how to add new applications after closing the gate and support defining the test strategy and test plan.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
Management of the application portfolio plus securing the data consistency by tracking and versioning of backups
Definition and planning of upcoming Windows releases plus their content (release calendar); ensuring application-related requirements are taken into consideration
Structure and coordinate the testing phases before the Windows client releases (plus creation of rollback plan(s)
Create Test Strategy and Testing Report document in close collaboration with Application Readiness Stream Lead and IT Quality
Coordination of fixing of upcoming failures during releases
Announcement of unplanned delays by using the KPI-symbols (eg traffic light) for the management
Support of the rollout team with application related questions
Consistent and replicable tracing of all decisions per software (-package)
Complete audit of all incoming information and changes with timestamp and registration name
Development and Release Management for the data, information- and decision templates
Development of algorithms for the software consolidation especially for the late registrations
Information of all involved release participants and release documentation
Support shaping and documentation of the to-be application readiness testing process for the new Microsoft update strategy
Qualifications:
Experience in migration/deployment projects (eg rollout projects, handling of large data sets), ideally in the application readiness area
Very good analytic skills
Process definition
Technical and functional knowledge in the field of relational databases (preferred MS SQL Server)
Background in Testing/test management for migration readiness.
CSV & IT Quality experience.
Report generation and automatization (MS Reporting Services, VBA or similar)
Knowledge about procedural problem-solving approaches and derivation of logical algorithms. regarding the data consolidation
Experience in defining and calculating KPIs for various levels of management
Advanced presentation skills for management
Microsoft background for Windows client release development and deployment (System Center and Windows10 knowhow)
ITIL Foundation certification or relevant experience in Service Management
Experience in virtual, international team settings
Business-fluid in English, both verbally and in writing
Nice to have:
+ Automated generation and presentation of statistics on Google sites
+ German, Spanish, French and/or Polish
Please note that experience with virtual work is a must and remote work is an option up to 20%.
If this role interests you please email Updated CV to (see below)
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