Why Join Us?

We are seeking a highly motivated and technically skilled individual to lead and manage one of the most critical branches at Check Point.

This is a maternity leave replacement position.

This role is pivotal in enabling fast, frequent, and reliable integrations across our R&D organization, contributing to a unified, stable branch.

As part of a major organizational transition toward Agile methodologies, this position is key in enabling frequent integration and continuous delivery. You’ll lead the effort to accelerate development cycles, streamline collaboration across teams, and raise the bar on product quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the branch for one of the areas in Check Point.
• Define, monitor, and enforce entry and exit criteria for code merges.
• Ensure branch stability by validating the quality of merges and responding rapidly to instability.
• Maintain alignment between your branch and the main integration branch.
• Track and manage the schedules of incoming merges (features, bug fixes, epics) from various development groups.
• Collaborate closely with QA and Automation teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage and early detection of issues.
• Daily Monitor automated and manual test executions on the branch, ensuring a consistently green pipeline.
• Drive continuous process improvements to maintain high quality.
• Serve as the central point of contact for R&D teams regarding branch activities, merge windows, and issue resolution.
• Provide timely updates on branch status, including risks, blockers, and stability metrics to area managers
• Implement risk mitigation strategies to minimize potential disruptions to development and integration flows.
• Maintain clear documentation of merge processes, decisions, fixes, and quality assessments. Insure all content merged is documented in JIRA
• Report on key performance indicators related to branch health, such as merge frequency, time to fix, test success rates, and release readiness.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience as technical Release management in SW industry
• Experience in matrix management of multidisciplinary teams including RND, QA, Management
• excellent understanding of Code Development work and QA work
• Technical abilities and analytical skills.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Independent and Self-directed
• Seeing the whole picture while being able to dig into details.
• Working in agile environment – advantage
• Experience in JIRA
• Deep understanding of development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Strong communication skills
• The ability to coordinate across multiple R&D teams