Roles and Responsibilities of Build and Release Engineer

The Build and Release Engineer will play a main role in the software development life cycle, some of them includes as below;

• Work with Engineering, Operations, Quality Assurance and Project Management to define and execute projects that implement build, release and deployment of web software.
• Manage the source code control system.
• Develop an automated, continuous, build process that reviews the source code, identifies build errors and notifies appropriate parties to expedite/facilitate synchronization to the latest build.
• Improve productivity by designing & developing full-featured build systems; implementing tools and scripts that enable efficient, flexible builds (Shell, Perl)
• Integrated the build system to the bug tracking system
• Develop an efficient deployment process for web deployments (rolling, hot etc.)
• Identify and propagate best practices and processes
• Communicate releases related activities to all the stakeholders and take their feedback to improve the process.

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