Infostretch is a pure-play digital engineering services firm focused on helping companies accelerate their digital initiatives from strategy and planning through execution. We leverage deep technical expertise, Agile methodologies and data-driven intelligence to modernize systems of engagement and simplify human/tech interaction. We deliver custom solutions that meet customers’ technology needs wherever they are in their digital lifecycle. Backed by Goldman Sachs and Everstone Capital, Infostretch works with both large enterprises and emerging innovators -- putting digital to work to enable new products and business models, engage with customers in new ways, and create sustainable competitive differentiation.

Job Description:

As a Junior Software Development Engineer in Test in the Engineering Services team at Infostretch, you will work on a variety of test automation development and testing projects. Your primary responsibility will be to help maintain, improve, and troubleshoot test automation.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Scrum events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams. Assisting Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs.
• Servings as teams’ or programs’ information radiator, representing the team or program to senior management, stakeholders and sponsors.
• Effectively using metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level.
• Facilitating estimation and planning at the team or program level. Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases.
• Coaching developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles. · Helping teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them.
• Shielding the team from outside distractions, context switching and interferences.
• Tracking and removing impediments.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity
• Building a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving REQUIRED

Skills / Experience

• 5 years’ experience as a Scrum Master for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Experience of handling projects that has cloud / infra component
• Prior experience building and testing software or implementing DevOps
• 3 years’ experience with scaled Agile (SAFe, LESS)
• Knowledge of other approaches in the Agile space: Kanban, Lean, etc.
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATD’D, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.
• Able to groom team members through agile transformation (not necessarily a certified coach)
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communication anywhere from the team level to C-level executives.

Preferred Skills / Qualifications

• Experience in Scrum Master and scaled Agile or transformation roles in a variety of different
• contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum and Agile, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
• Active participant in the Agile community.

An excellent salary and bonus package are just the start with an Infostretch career. We also provide medical, dental, vision, 401k with company match, company paid life insurance, paid time off, paid holidays, and gym reimbursement is standard here. Add to that annual performance evaluations, company parties and family picnics and you've got a career that continually rewards your effort. There is nothing more important to our success than our employees and we prove it every day.

This is a direct hire full-time position. If you feel that this is a good match for your skill-sets - please send a current word version of your resume along with a cover letter describing your skills, experience and salary expectations. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)