The Software Release Specialist is part of the KION Global IT team and is responsible for managing functional and technical releases for the KION Group's IT environment.

Responsibilities

• Preparation and implementation of releases and hotfixes in the productive IT application landscape from the NA business side.
• Coordination, continuous updating, and communication of the release plan based on the scope.
• Coordination with agile development teams on the content/change requests of the releases and creation of the release documentation.
• Collaborate with the Test Manager and Release Manager to ensure smooth testing of releases.
• Evaluate risks related to release processes, timelines and dependencies with Major Project Releases and work on mitigation strategy, respectively.
• Define, update, and document the approval process in parallel to the Release Cycles.
• Coordinate the release plan in alignment with release cyc...