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• Collaborates with Product Manager to support short and long-term release planning• Collaborates with Product Owner to keep product backlog healthy, correctly prioritized, and ready for development• Works with Product Owners to drive development of release and sprint roadmaps. • Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality, and promoting the Values of Scrum • Leads Sprint Retrospective efforts by reviewing the sprint’s highs and improvement… Show more • Collaborates with Product Manager to support short and long-term release planning• Collaborates with Product Owner to keep product backlog healthy, correctly prioritized, and ready for development• Works with Product Owners to drive development of release and sprint roadmaps. • Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality, and promoting the Values of Scrum • Leads Sprint Retrospective efforts by reviewing the sprint’s highs and improvement potentials for future sprints. • Remove impediments identified by the team and coach the scrum team on removing impediments. • Develops long/short-term metric reports on schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity, burn-down, epic throughput, reference epic charts, and initiative burn-up • Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example• Review existing metrics and establish new measures to track product development progress Show less

• The gatekeeper for releases. Oversee the progress of the release cycle through the various environments from the initiation of the sprint cycle through to the deployment to production. • Communicate status of release cycle and ensure ownership and resolution of issues impacting release cadence.• Determine product readiness using both manual, automated testing to ensure shipping of a quality product.• Consult, Build, Maintain and Execute Testing Frameworks• Ensure that the… Show more • The gatekeeper for releases. Oversee the progress of the release cycle through the various environments from the initiation of the sprint cycle through to the deployment to production. • Communicate status of release cycle and ensure ownership and resolution of issues impacting release cadence.• Determine product readiness using both manual, automated testing to ensure shipping of a quality product.• Consult, Build, Maintain and Execute Testing Frameworks• Ensure that the release schedule is transparent and communicated. Address anomalies in the schedule caused by special events and/or holidays.• Work closely with DevOps to explore and implement opportunities for more successful and faster delivery, including but not limited to automation, with a potential goal of continuous delivery. • Capture and publish metrics measuring the performance and success of the release. Use these metrics to identify and advocate for improvements. • Evangelize predictability, transparency and accuracy as it related to releases. Show less

• Take ownership for the testing and quality assurance (QA) of our software - Establish and evolve QA processes. - Provide accurate QA estimates for product releases, while adapting to changing requirements. - Develop and manage manual and automated tests for new features and regressions for UI and software APIs. - Ensure QA goals are met, and provide timely status updates to management team. - Review and resolve QA issues… Show more • Take ownership for the testing and quality assurance (QA) of our software - Establish and evolve QA processes. - Provide accurate QA estimates for product releases, while adapting to changing requirements. - Develop and manage manual and automated tests for new features and regressions for UI and software APIs. - Ensure QA goals are met, and provide timely status updates to management team. - Review and resolve QA issues reported by users.• Participate in the design and implementation process for new and existing features of the software - Work closely with other teams and engineering manager on overall project improvements• Provide daily technical support to the marketing /sales team, with hands-on QA activities and reporting to engineering team.• Assist in creating use-cases for demos and show casing specific user requirements/needs.• Lead the development on the user manual, documentation, and user training material. Show less

Dallas, Tx