Reference: TQ2425_2131_452
Vacancy: 2
Job title: Change Release Manager – Oracle Intelligent Advisor
Location: Leicester
Job Purpose:
TESTQ Technologies is an IT services and Solutions Company whose offerings span over a variety of industry sectors with strong technical, domain, and process expertise helping clients grow their businesses and decrease operational costs on a continuous basis in an ever-changing business environment.
We are seeking a motivated and skilled Change Release Manager – Oracle Intelligent Advisor to join our growing development team. The ideal candidate has a solid foundation in software development principles, hands-on experience with modern technologies, and a passion for writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
Job Description (Main Duties and Responsibilities):
- Own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle across multiple platforms.
- Maintain and enforce change control processes, ensuring compliance with governance and audit requirements.
- Coordinate release planning with the Delivery Manager and stakeholders to align with sprint cycles and business priorities.
- Maintain a forward schedule of change (FSC) and release calendar.
- Plan and manage Oracle IA upgrades, including coordination with Oracle support and internal teams.
- Schedule and implement security patching across environments, ensuring timely remediation of vulnerabilities.
- Oversee configuration management, including WebLogic settings, integrations, and ruleset deployments.
- Collaborate with IA Developers to ensure deployment packages are validated and version controlled.
- Maintain environment integrity across dev, test, staging, and production.
- Ensure rollback plans and deployment scripts are in place and tested.
- Work with testers to schedule regression and performance testing in line with release timelines.
- Liaise with infrastructure teams or managed service providers for environment provisioning and patching.
- Work closely with Business Analysts to understand upcoming changes and their impact.
- Coordinate with the User Researcher and Content Manager to ensure user-facing changes are communicated effectively.
- Provide regular updates to stakeholders on release status, risks, and issues.
Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience Needed [The candidate must demonstrate these in all stages of assessment]
- Proven experience in Change Release Management within a managed service or enterprise environment.
- Plan and execute releases for Oracle IA Hub/Server and WebLogic clusters, including multi-environment promotion, approval workflows, cut-over, and rollback strategies.
- Align release planning with sprint cycles, business readiness, and stakeholder communication.
- Maintain ITIL-aligned processes including CAB participation, change records, RAID logs, and incident/problem linkage.
- Manage versioning of OPM projects, rulebase dependencies, and environment-specific configurations (adapters, connections, integrations).
- Ensure cross-environment consistency and traceability across development, UAT, and production environments.
- Oversee deployment to Azure Red Hat Linux environments and WebLogic clusters, ensuring resilience, clustering, and session integrity.
- Coordinate Oracle IA and WebLogic product upgrades, security patching (CPU/PSU), JDK updates, certificate renewals, and vulnerability remediation.
- Schedule and manage changes across Azure services—Red Hat Linux hosts, WebLogic domains, Azure API Management (authZ/authN policies, throttling), and Key Vault secrets.
- Safely manage API and data contract changes for integrated systems such as Dynamics 365, SharePoint, and other third-party consumers/providers.
- Govern lifecycle of embedded/headless interview APIs, ensuring backward compatibility and stable deployments across environments.
- Ensure interview logs/results comply with classification, retention, and lineage requirements across Azure SQL and Azure Storage.
- Support privacy impact assessments, audit readiness, and documentation for data protection and regulatory compliance.
- Coordinate test execution using OPM test packs; maintain traceability of test outcomes for rulebase changes.
- Validate accessibility compliance for each release (WCAG/GDS), using tools like SortSite, JAWS, and Dragon.
- Ensure documentation and test evidence is complete and auditable across all release gates.
- Align releases with Agile/WAgile delivery (Scrum, Kanban), managing Definition of Ready/Done, sprint/release notes, and user-adoption planning.
- Work closely with product owners, QA, developers, DevOps, and operations teams to drive continuous improvement in delivery cadence and quality.
- Proven ability to oversee deployment processes, release scheduling, and change control specific to IA across development, test, and production environments.
- Experience in managing business change and user adoption for IA solutions, including stakeholder engagement, training, and support for non-technical users.
- Strong background in managing Oracle IA upgrades and security patch release cycles.
- Security Clearance: Must meet Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) requirements.
- Work Environment: Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment, often engaging with other internal delivery teams.
- Willingness to travel to client sites when required.
Other Key skills:
- Good analytical and Problem-solving skills
- Good communication skills
- A thorough approach and Self starter
- Focus on quality and delivery
- Working together in teams.
- Leadership and effective decision making.
- Flexible Attitude
- Excellent customer service
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or above in the UK or Equivalent.
Salary: GBP 59000 to GBP 65000 per annum
Published Date: 10 October 2025
Closing Date: 08 November 2025
Evaluation: CV Review, Technical Test, Personal and Technical Interview and References
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent [Part time and Fixed Term option is available]
Location/Travel: Availability for work from office in Leicester and client visits (1-2 days/week) in Coventry, Sheffield, or Manchester.
