Gurpreet's CV
Gurpreet Kaur
Release Manager | Enterprise Program Management
Profile summary
Strategic Release Manager with 14 years shaping enterprise software outcomes. Known for cross-functional technical operations, release planning, and CI/CD pipeline governance. Committed to aligning development, quality assurance, and operations teams to execute complex deployments securely.
Career highlights
Enterprise Release Management: Delivered 20+ enterprise releases with 99% deployment success and improved deployment efficiency by 40% across multiple SaaS platforms.
Release Coordination and Risk Mitigation: Directed release coordination for a 100-person team, cutting sprint carry-over and deployment-related bugs by 30% over two quarters.
AI Workflow Automation: Developed AI-powered workflows and agents using Claude AI and prompt engineering to automate requirement analysis, risk assessment, and technical documentation.
Agile Certifications: Held SAFe 6 Certified, Certified Product Owner, and Certified Scrum Master credentials from Scaled Agile and Scrum Alliance.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reports to executive leadership while guiding technical operations and software release management. Steers cross-functional alignment across engineering and product teams to govern deployment schedules, quality standards, and platform stability.
- Delivered 20+ enterprise releases with 99% deployment success and improved deployment efficiency by 40%.
- Governed the CI/CD pipeline end-to-end by managing branching strategy, pull request workflows, merge gates, and build standards in GitHub.
- Executed Go/No-Go reviews before every release to confirm testing completion, environment readiness, and quality gate sign-off prior to go-live.
- Developed AI-powered workflows and agents using Claude AI and prompt engineering to automate requirement analysis, risk assessment, and technical documentation.
- Conducted post-release validation and health checks to confirm systems are stable, secure, and performing as expected after each deployment.
Directed release coordination for a 100-person team, owning the end-to-end deployment lifecycle from readiness through quality sign-off to go-live. Managed cross-functional planning and tracked dependencies across development, quality assurance, and operations while overseeing release-day execution.
- Identified release risks early and addressed them, cutting sprint carry-over and deployment-related bugs by 30% over two quarters.
- Maintained release dashboards and burn-down charts for stakeholder reviews while delivering weekly status updates to senior management.
- Conducted retrospectives after each release to capture lessons learned and refine the CI/CD and deployment process.
Steward of quality assurance and release validation operations for enterprise software, cloud, SaaS, and data platform projects. Governed release criteria, test environment coordination, and cross-functional scheduling.
- Drove test automation adoption to improve coverage, accelerate releases, and strengthen deployment governance across teams.
- Tracked defect escape rate, cycle time, regression pass rate, and throughput to guide continuous process improvements.
- Built deployment runbooks and release checklists that standardized go-live steps and coordinated incident triage during major production issues.
Shaped release strategy and governed continuous integration and deployment standards across multiple platforms, coordinating cross-functional dependencies between development, quality assurance, and operations teams.
- Delivered 20+ enterprise releases with 99% deployment success while improving deployment efficiency by 40%.
- Developed artificial intelligence powered workflows and agents using Claude artificial intelligence and prompt engineering to automate requirement analysis, risk assessment, and technical documentation.
- Executed Go/No-Go reviews before every release to confirm testing completion, environment readiness, and quality gate sign-off.
- Identified release risks early and applied mitigation steps, cutting sprint carry-over and deployment-related bugs by 30%.
- Managed release-day activities by planning deployment windows, sequencing tasks, tracking progress, and resolving blockers in real time.
- Drove the adoption of test automation to expand test coverage, accelerate release cycles, and strengthen deployment governance.
- Tracked quality metrics including defect escape rate, cycle time, regression pass rate, and throughput to guide process improvements.