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Job Summary
Comcast India is looking for a talented and dedicated Release Engineer to support the release cycles associated with deployed software on CPE devices. These devices use Comcast’s Reference Design Kit (RDK), which is deployed at Comcast on over 63+ million devices spanning video and broadband. The CPE Release Engineer function is critical to the successful development and deployment of new features and fixes as the function ensures that these changes get deployed to the field on a two-week deployment cycle.
Comcast’s development environment is advanced and highly integrated. It uses industry standard tools that are combined effectively to support a fast-moving, agile development cycle. The combination of these tools running on cloud infrastructure, coupled with an effective use of Open Source code, allows Comcast to deliver features and products against aggressive timelines
Job Description
Core Responsibilities
As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for driving on-time, high quality releases across a large number of devices. You would be responsible for the complete release management lifecycle, which includes scheduling, coordination, and management of releases on number of deployed devices. The position will require daily collaboration with Development, Field Triage and QA teams. You will assess and implement new tools, plugins, etc. that are necessary to improve the software release engineering process. You will manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.
Ensure stable/release branch builds are in good health daily; provide test guidance to QA teams for the release targets and ensure targets are on track; collaborate with Field Triage team to review the machine metrics for the key aspects of video, broadband, and voice related functionalities; prioritize customer Call In Rate, Truck Roll, and performance related issues in the next release; integrate target into release branch prior to official release build; conduct post-deployment feature reviews to ensure features are doing well in the field; maintain warehouse and factory images up-to-date with recent releases; communicate release notes and plans to external stakeholders; Release monitoring through Data analysis tools (Tableau, Haystack etc) and work with Tools team for enhancing tools.
Requirements Key requirements and experience include:
- A strong technical background in Software engineering including best practices and understanding of software development lifecycle.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Experience with Continuous Integration & Delivery
- 7+ years of experience in Engineering and Release Management
- Good in Release Management experience in Agile environment.
- Knowledge and experience in Build/Release technology such as:
- Languages: C , C++ & Linux
- Scripting: Python & Shell script
- JiRA plugins & Confluence
- SCM Tools: Git, Gerrit, SVN,
- Build tools: Jenkins
- Reporting Tools: Tableau & Splunk
- Knowledge with Linux and Embedded software
- Knowledge and experience in STB Video domain is plus.
- BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field
- Strong debugging skills
Optional:
• Experience with RDK
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Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
5-7 Years
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