D365 Test, Release & Control Manager

Job title:

D365 Test, Release & Change Control Manager

Location:

Nottingham (Preferably onsite, but hybrid working available - 3 days office)

Salary: £60,000 - £80,000 p/a

Benefits:
Private Healthcare, Pension, 25 days holiday rising to 30 over 5 years, Group Life Insurance, Income Protection, Gym Discounts, Free Fuel Fridays, Employee of the Quarter, Employee Referral program and many more

You will be responsible for managing the end-to-end release lifecycle across the Microsoft Dynamics 365 estate, covering both Customer Engagement (CE) and Finance & Supply Chain Management (FSCM).

• Owning and managing the D365 release calendar and deployment schedules
• Coordinating testing activities including SIT, UAT, regression, and smoke testing
• Managing change control processes, approvals, and release readiness
• Supporting go/no-go decision making for releases and deployments
• Coordinating releases across multiple environments including Dev, Test, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production
• Managing defects, risks, dependencies, and post-release validation activities
• Producing and maintaining release documentation including test plans, release notes, RAID logs, and cutover plans
• Working closely with internal teams and external suppliers to ensure smooth delivery
• Driving continuous improvement across release and change processes

• Experience managing releases, testing, or change control within enterprise applications
• Exposure to Microsoft Dynamics 365 environments (CE and/or FSCM)
• Strong understanding of release governance and testing life cycles
• Experience coordinating stakeholders across technical and business teams
• Experience managing defects, risks, dependencies, and release readiness
• Comfortable working within Agile and/or ITIL environments
• Strong organisational and communication skills

• ERP/CRM transformation programmes
• Test automation exposure

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