Scrum Master with QA Experience
Rockville, MD
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Job Title: Scrum Master with QA Experience
Duration: Long-term Contract Position
Location: Rockville, MD
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Desired Skills:
Duration: Long-term Contract Position
Location: Rockville, MD
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate and coordinate all scrum ceremonies including PI planning, Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/retrospective, Backlog grooming, Inspect and Adapt etc.
- Guide and coach the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
- Get team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
- Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
- Coach the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
- Work with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
- Responsible for identifying when the internal and external dependencies must be met for the team to meet their PI goals.
- Supports the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy intra-team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
- Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
- Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
- Guide the team in establishing normalized estimates and help the team and the ART estimate larger Features.
- Ensure the integration of QA processes such as test planning, test automation, and performance testing into the product development cycle.
- Oversee the design, implementation, and validation of programming code alongside QA teams to ensure high standards of quality.
- Create quality measurements to track improvement in products
- Support design, development and coding of software products
- Work closely with project team to define release and regression test plans
- Use critical thinking to design and execute test cases and scenarios based on requirements, acceptance criteria documented in Stories and Features, and other support documents
- Write, debug, execute, and analyze results of automated scripts and resolve issues
- Identify, investigate, and prioritize software defects
- Write basic SQL scripts to inspect data loaded to database in support of verification activities
- Effectively communicate with product manager and other team members
- Share acquired skills with team members
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; Scrum Master certification preferred.
- Minimum five years of proven experience as a Scrum Master with hands-on involvement in quality assurance activities.
- Excellent understanding of Scrum techniques and artifacts, and the integration of QA processes in Agile environments.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Experience with Acceptance test driven development.
- Must be able to quickly adopt and understand automation framework and applications, perform automation activities with less guidance.
- Continuous integration tools for software development and build life cycles focused on automation.
Desired Skills:
- Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring teams within a dynamic and challenging environment.
- Experience with SAFe Agile methodology and best practices
- Experience with Atlassian tool for project management preferred.
- Advanced knowledge on test automation using Selenium/Java/TestNG/Cucumber/ Gherkin.
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