Senior GCP Testing & Release Management Lead

Senior GCP Testing & Release Management Lead

Client: Deloitte / JPMorgan Chase

Rate: $70/hr on C2C.



Location: Jersey City, NJ - 100% Onsite local only.



Duration: 12+ Months



Experience: 7+ Years



Visa: USC or GC

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior GCP Testing & Release Management Lead to support a regulated, enterprise-scale Google Cloud Platform (GCP) rollout. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in GCP, release management, testing/quality governance, and enterprise change management .

This role will lead engineering governance across GCP platform and onboarding initiatives, ensuring that releases are safe, predictable, well-tested, fully documented, and audit-ready . The candidate will work closely with platform engineering, IAM, networking, security/compliance, application, and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end release management and governance for GCP platform and onboarding changes, including release calendars, change approvals, go/no-go decisions, rollback criteria, and hypercare.
• Define and enforce testing and quality gates for GCP and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) changes.
• Establish test strategies, regression coverage requirements, environment promotion standards, and peer-review practices.
• Lead release readiness assessments and post-release validation activities, including cutover checklists, smoke testing, monitoring verification, and release-window incident triage.
• Establish and maintain standards for release documentation and evidence collection , including change records, test results, approvals, and deployment traceability.
• Ensure release processes and documentation meet enterprise governance, risk, compliance, and audit requirements .
• Coordinate dependencies across IAM, networking, security, compliance, GCP platform engineering, application development, and operations teams .
• Drive timely decision-making, issue resolution, escalation, and cross-functional communication throughout the release lifecycle.
• Identify recurring release defects, testing gaps, and process inefficiencies and lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions .
• Drive continuous improvement and automation of release and quality-control checks.
• Define and validate operational handoffs , including runbooks, support models, SLAs, knowledge-base documentation, and production-readiness criteria.
• Ensure all teams and supporting processes are fully prepared for production deployment and ongoing operations.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in release management, testing, quality engineering, engineering governance, or a related discipline.
• Strong hands-on or governance-level experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) .
• Proven experience managing enterprise release management and production deployment processes.
• Strong understanding of software testing, regression testing, quality gates, and release readiness .
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and associated testing/review practices.
• Experience working in regulated or highly governed enterprise environments .
• Strong understanding of change management, deployment traceability, approvals, and audit evidence.
• Experience coordinating multiple technical teams and managing complex dependencies.
• Strong experience with go/no-go decisions, rollback planning, cutover, hypercare, and post-release validation .
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering, security, compliance, infrastructure, application, and operations teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large financial services or banking environments .
• Experience with enterprise-scale GCP migrations or cloud transformation programs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment controls, and release automation.
• Experience establishing or improving engineering governance and operational controls .
• Experience with incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.