DevOps Test Lead

MUST HAVE SKILLS Scrum, Agile, Project Management, VersionOne, DevOps team management Secondary Skills User Acceptance Testing, Mortgage / Freddie / Fannie experience Responsibilities Instruct and model core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensure consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise. Manage the End to End testing lifecycle, from ideation to sprints to production deployment in an agile/dev ops model Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices. Work with business sponsors and Product Owner to define release/sprint level test strategy and plan Identify the different types of testing needs for the project and mentor the team Establish best practices and plan for continuous improvement of processes Dependency management between delivery teams. Adhering to and teaching of processes for sprint cadence, tools usage, release management coordination, velocity tracking, and capacity planning Gather requirements with team from the product owner and define the scope of testing, its goals and deliverables Develop/Assist in project budget, schedule, and risk mitigation plans; allocate resources, monitor and control the execution. Evaluate risks and prepare risk response strategy along with team. Create and publish daily / weekly and monthly reports to stake holders Be proactive in identification of risks and plan for mitigation by closely working with cross functional teams, key stakeholders and management on regular basis Should be open to adopt new DevOps tools/technologies and processes in the project