Sr Scrum Master

Position Title: Sr Scrum Master

Work Location: Richmond, VA - Hybrid (3 Days Onsite per week)

Assignment Duration: 7 months

Lead Digital Accessibility Agile initiatives, manage pre‑release testing sprints, and foster continuous improvement across engineering teams.

• Agile Delivery & Pre‑Release Testing
  • Sprint Management: Manage day‑to‑day Agile ceremonies for pre‑release testing sprints, retros, and sprint planning, ensuring strict focus on quality and continuous delivery.
  • Visibility & Tracking: Provide clear visibility into testing delivery targets, commitments and progress to stakeholders.
  • Impediment Resolution: Facilitate identification of roadblocks in the testing lifecycle and resolve them through peer networks and formal escalation channels.
  • Risk & Compliance: Coach the team on delivery controls and compliance to minimize operational and reputational risk before release.
  • Dependency Management: Understand domain architecture to help teams identify upstream and downstream dependencies that may impact the pre‑release testing schedule.
• Accessibility Project Management
  • Strategic Rollout Planning: Lead end‑to‑end project management for designing and deploying a new testing approach within live production monitoring environments.
  • Cross‑Functional Implementation: Partner with Dev Ops, engineering and testing teams to integrate new production testing strategies without disrupting existing services.
  • Change Management & Optimization: Drive adoption of monitoring practices across teams and establish key performance metrics to measure effectiveness.
• Agile Coaching & Team Building
  • Continuous Improvement: Use data‑driven feedback and Agile metrics to identify growth opportunities, experiment with frameworks and improve delivery.
  • Engineering Excellence: Promote engineering innovation (e.g., Dev Ops practices, test‑driven development, automated testing).
  • Self‑Organization: Coach the team to continuously improve collaboration, self‑organization and cross‑functional communication.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent diploma.
• At least 3 years as an Agile Coach or 5 years as a Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Lead.
• Experience managing Agile workflows for QA, testing or pre‑release teams.
• Proven project management experience coordinating initiatives across multiple technical teams.
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to work with diverse stakeholders and teach Agile concepts across organization levels.
• Energetic, self‑motivated and highly organized.

• Familiarity with software accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and automated testing concepts.
• Hands‑on project management experience implementing automated accessibility testing tools into release pipelines.
• Exposure to centralized Agile team health assessments (e.g., Agility Health).
• Hands‑on experience with Jira Align, Tableau and advanced Agile metrics.
• Experience scaling Agile, preferably using SAFe.
• RTE (Release Train Engineer) or Product Management experience.