Associate Digital Engineer I-Release Management, Retail Tech at Best Buy in Richfield, Minnesota

Job Description:

Best Buy’s Digital and Technology organization is seeking an Associate Digital Engineer I-Release Management, Retail Tech, to join the team as a key member of the Technical Delivery team within the IT Retail Platform Organization. This cross-functional role contributes to all aspects of software development and delivery, with a focus on coordinating timely, quality software releases into production.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Assign, track, and document releases to ensure timely, quality releases


• Removing impediments identified by Retail Platform product squads


• Reviewing change release candidates from development squads to ensure we’re delivering a viable release candidate to automation testing


• Helping development squads with Best Buy intakes and release gate processes


• Sharing timeline risks and potential remediations early and often with product stakeholders


• Assigning and tracking automated regression testing on release code to ensure changes don’t break previous functionality


• Working with QA and automation associates so automated tests are updated with each production release


• Communicating sprint status and regression test results to stakeholders to include issues, owners, actions, and dates where appropriate


• Assisting development squads to create deployment run books for production support


• Completing basic documentation needed from the development phase to the maintenance phase

• 4+ years of relevant experience in release management, working closely with architects, engineers, and development resources and a bachelor's degree, or 2 additional years of the same experience above without a bachelor's degree


• 1+ years of agile methodology experience


• Proficient in software development lifecycle processes and tools (Agile scrum, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps)