Release Analyst

Overview:
KUBRA's Service Delivery department is looking for a skilled **Release Analyst** to join our Quality Assurance and Release Management team

As a Release Analyst, you will be joining a collaborative and highly responsive team while maintaining quality by performing testing, ensuring that audit and compliance standards met, and deploying tested products and solutions into different servers and environments.

***This is a 12-month contract with the possibility of extension**

What you get to do every day:

- Test software programs, products, solutions, and development procedures to ensure client and company requirements are met and delivered
- Perform and execute Migration and Deployment plans per the schedule and release
- Enforce best-practices and standards before live release dates for scheduled migrations, Canada to US location moves, and Legacy to VBS.NET conversions
- Develop and maintain Compliance, Migration and Deployment plans as needed
- Execute and perform the deployment protocols for tested programs, products and solutions to various servers and environments
- Execute regression, functional, back-end and data testing
- Report and track bugs, defects and issues

What kind of person should you be?:

- You pride yourself on your analytical and critical thinking skills
- You hardly ever run away from a challenge
- You are someone who has a proactive and solution-oriented mindset
- You enjoy working with a team
- You take pleasure in maintaining compliance and process standards

What skills do you need?:

- Experience using Octopus Deploy considered an asset
- 1-3 years of Software QA Testing experience in the IT industry
- 1-3 years of Deployment experience in the IT industry
- Experience on Amazon Web Services considered an asset
- Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continous deployment tools TeamCity and BitBucket
- Deployment experience is a must
- Knowledge or experience using Source Safe, Source Tree or Stash/GIT
- Knowledge of C# and VBScript
- Experience using Microsoft SQL Server considered an asset
- Knowledge of issue tracking systems such as JIRA
- Knowledge of ITIL standards

What can you expect from us?:

- Award-winning culture that fosters growth, diversity and inclusion for all
- Paid day off for your birthday
- Access to LinkedIn learning courses
- Continued education with our education reimbursement program
- Flexible schedules
- Free unlimited access to our refreshment stations (fully stocked with tea, coffee and other beverages)
- Two paid days for volunteer opportunities

KUBRA is a fast-growing company that delivers customer communications solutions to some of the largest utility, insurance, and government entities across North America. KUBRA offers billing and payments, mapping, mobile apps, proactive communications, and artificial intelligence solutions for customers. With more than 1.5 billion customer interactions annually, KUBRA services reach over 40% of households in the U.S. and Canada. KUBRA is an operating subsidiary of Hearst.

Our office is small enough to allow creative individuals to flourish, yet large enough to provide long-term stability. We place a tremendous amount of responsibility on our team members to be productive, focused and self-motivated. We offer a casual work environment, competitive compensation and a stellar benefits program.