Scrum Master (QA Engineer exp)

• Project Description:

Our client is market leader producer of Integrated Circuits Lithography and Metrology machines, based in Netherlands.

The client has an installed base of hundreds of scanner systems worldwide. In order to meet uptime contract agreements, the system downtime must be kept to an absolute minimum. The traditional way to diagnose a system failure is to send engineers to a failing machine and let them execute the diagnostics and calibration procedures using a set of procedures and software tools.

This way-of-working introduces travel time and relies on the skills of individual engineers.

The client is about to change that way of working by introducing a server on-site that continuously monitors all scanners in a customer domain. The server must detect (upcoming) system failure and identify what corrective actions are needed via a knowledge and procedure database. In the calibration phase, this server will initiate the required service actions on the scanner with correct settings and timings (which is highly configuration dependent).

• Responsibilities:

- Coach the Scrum Team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the teams and organization;

- Build a trusting and safe environment where raising problems and issues are welcome;

- Adapt leadership style to team maturity;

- Empower the team to be self-organized and to experiment continuously how to improve their working processes;

- Engage multiple roles and stakeholders to facilitate technical discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution;

- Diligently persuade the Product Owner and the Team to adhere to Scrum principles;

- Collaborate with the Product Owner to provide a clear vision and requirements to the team that describes where the Product or Service is headed;

- Communicate project status and release progress to stakeholders, including risk management, dependencies, impediments and improvements;

- Collect, analyze with the team, improve and report to Luxoft management, every Sprint, the agile metrics that prove team performance;

- Create Test Strategy and help the team with QA delivery activities.

• Mandatory Skills Description:

- Master's Degree in computer science or similar education;

- Scrum Master experience in a software development environment for at least 3 years;

- Agile/Scrum certifications (Scaled agile frameworks experience is mandatory);

- At least 2 years of experience in scaled agile frameworks: SAFe, Less, Nexus;

- Technical background as QA engineer/Lead;

- Experience in creating Test Strategies;

- Experience in managing moderately complex projects (more vendors, more suppliers, more stakeholders, unclear expectations, tight dependencies): 2 years;

- Experience in a multicultural working environment;

- Experience with distributed teams;

- Excellent communication skills, on an individual and group basis;

- People management experience: 2 years.

• Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

- Proactive style of work;

- Capacity to understand the big picture and also to pay attention to details;

- Willingness to continuously improve existing skills;

- Good Team Spirit;

- Well organized;

- Project Management certifications;

- Former experience as developer or test automation engineer;

- Soft skills certifications;

- People Management knowledge.