Sr. Scrum Master

Note: This position requires an active secret clearance

Aperio Global is seeking an experienced Senior Scrum Master to join our dynamic team in Washington, DC. This position is hybrid requiring 2 days in the office. In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring the success of our agile development projects. As a Senior Scrum Master, you will be responsible for driving the proper implementation of Agile methodologies, facilitating scrum processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality results. If you are an Agile enthusiast with a proven track record in Scrum, SaFE, and a passion for driving innovation, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure JIRA is being utilized correctly to plan, track, and manage the agile development project.
• Ensure the correct use of Scrum processes to optimize project efficiency.
• Conduct agile training sessions for clients and new Scrum team members as needed.
• Facilitate daily scrum meetings and send out minutes to the team within 2 hours of concluding the meeting.
• Schedule, facilitate, and participate in sprint planning, sprint demos, and retrospective meetings.
• Update Confluence with outcomes and action items from sprint planning, sprint demos, and retrospective meetings.
• Prepare the agenda for the weekly IPT (Integrated Product Team) meeting by the previous Thursday.
• Update JIRA tickets with the outcomes of pre-IPT and IPT meetings, capturing decisions and comments.
• Facilitate estimations and planning sessions to forecast the number of deliverables possible in an iteration.
• Determine the capacity of the team and ensure consistency across sprints.
• Provide updates for weekly status reports.
• Produce monthly JIRA reports to include in monthly status reports.
• Collaborate with the client/product owner to groom and maintain the product backlog.
• Create a sprint planning roadmap and prepare a list of tickets and bugs for the upcoming sprint before the current sprint ends, ensuring they have proper descriptions, steps to reproduce, and acceptance criteria.
• Assist the team in clarifying goals and actions to achieve them.
• Help subject matter experts (SMEs) understand requirements and create JIRA tickets.
• Generate the Requirements Traceability Matrix after client approval of the backlog and again at the end of the sprint, showing actuals.
• Define the "Definition of Done" and ensure it is being followed and oversee test case management and defect tracking.
• Produce Release Notes for each sprint.
• Review test cases and provide refinements to the tester.
• Learn the application and assist with testing.
• Ensure user stories and acceptance criteria are clear and adhere to Agile practices.
• Ensure that JIRA tickets are complete in terms of description, steps to reproduce, acceptance criteria, and that they are in the correct status with the correct priority assigned.
• Lead release planning sessions with the client, product owner, and Scrum team.
• Foster effective, open, honest, and respectful communication among the team.
• Facilitate discussions, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
• Identify and remove impediments for the Scrum team.
• Assist the project manager with deliverables.
• Attend and actively engage in client meetings, ensuring preparedness for the meetings and confirming the agenda with the Project Manager well in advance.
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently and produce quality work that doesn't require corrections or intervention by others.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 7+ years of experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SaFE).
• 7+ years of experience in writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• 7+ years of experience with Agile development, DevOps, continuous integration, and continuous testing.
• 7+ years of experience with test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD).
• 7+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, leading a team practicing Scrum theories and practices.
• Relevant certifications in Agile, including Scrum Master and SaFE.
• 5+ years of experience with JIRA and JIRA reports.
• 5+ years of experience in writing technical documentation.
• Knowledge of Confluence is a plus.
• Knowledge of radio transmitters