Project Management - Scrum Master

Job#: 3034511

Job Description:

Job Description: Digital Accessibility Agile/Project Lead

Key Responsibilities:

Agile Delivery & Pre-Release Testing

Sprint Management: Manage day-to-day Agile ceremonies and activities specifically for pre-release testing sprints, retros and sprint planning, ensuring the team maintains strict focus on quality and continuous delivery.

Visibility & Tracking: Provide clear visibility into testing delivery targets, commitments, and progress to stakeholders.

Impediment Resolution: Facilitate processes to proactively identify roadblocks in the testing lifecycle and resolve them using a network of peers and formal escalation channels.

Risk & Compliance: Understand and coach the team on delivery controls and compliance to minimize operational and reputational risk prior to release.

Dependency Management: Understand domain architecture to help teams identify upstream and downstream dependencies that could impact the pre-release testing schedule.

Accessibility Project Management

Strategic Rollout Planning: Lead the end-to-end project management for designing and deploying a new, innovative testing approach within our live production monitoring environments.

Cross-Functional Implementation: Partner with DevOps, engineering, and testing teams to seamlessly integrate these new production testing strategies without disrupting existing live services.

Change Management & Optimization: Drive the adoption of these new monitoring practices across teams, establishing key performance metrics to measure their effectiveness in proactively identifying production issues.

Agile Coaching & Team Building

Continuous Improvement: Utilize data-driven feedback and Agile metrics to identify growth opportunities, innovating with frameworks through experimentation to improve team delivery.

Engineering Excellence: Develop understanding and encouragement of engineering innovation (e.g., DevOps practices, test-driven development, automated testing).

Self-Organization: Coach the team to continuously improve collaboration, self-organization, and cross-functional communication.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent diploma.

At least 3 years of experience as an Agile Coach OR 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Lead.

Demonstrated experience managing Agile workflows for QA, testing, or pre-release teams.

Proven project management experience, specifically coordinating initiatives across multiple technical teams.

Experience with Agile management tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Proven experience working with various stakeholders and the ability to teach Agile concepts to different levels of the organization.

Energetic, self-motivated, and highly organized.

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with software accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and the concept of automated testing.

Hands-on project management experience implementing automated accessibility testing tools into release pipelines.

Exposure to centralized Agile team health assessments (such as AgilityHealth).

Hands-on experience with Jira Align, Tableau Reports, and advanced Agile Metrics.

Experience in scaling Agile, preferably using SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).

RTE (Release Train Engineer) or Product Management experience.

EEO Employer

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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.