Description
Scrum Master/Quality Assurance Officer urgently required for a 6 month contract with my prestigious Investment Bank client in Brussels (English and French speaking).
The Scrum Master and Quality Assurance Officer (English and French speaking) are key influencers within a transformation context of the IT Division of the company.
You will be responsible for the following duties as Scrum Master/Quality Assurance Officer, based in Brussels:
Scrum Master (Agile Coach): providing pilot projects and management with:
- Operational and efficient support, guidance and expertise on "agile" practices,
- Rules and quick-wins to organise and monitor the "agile" team, made up with both Business and IT stakeholders,
- An "agile" framework extension of the CMMI-based methodology in the organisation, including templates, guiding forms and/or guides, studies of tooling solutions for continuous integration, testing and releasing.
Quality Assurance Officer, in charge of the following activities:
- Define with the IT project/application portfolio managers the activities to be implemented in accordance with the applicable processes of the life cycle and context,
- Manage waivers,
- Conduct reviews, in order to assess the level of compliance (process and product quality) and level of overall risk of the project/application portfolio,
- Report the QA results and analysis to Organisation Managers (Business Unit, Domain, CIO, Q&M) in order to provide them with action plans and risk mitigation levers. As a Member of the Quality & Methods team, the Agile coach/QAO also
- Provides support to IT teams and management,
- Contributes to the overall Methodology processes and tools optimisation, with consistency for QA process and practices
- Takes part in QA Group community for practices share and improvement.
It is essential that you have the following experience:
- At least one successful experience in agile project (SCRUM, XP or RUP/AUP-based),
- Strong Quality Assurance knowledge and experience, and/or a method implementation within an IT organisation (CMMI-based),
- Good communication and listening skills (with operational and management from both IT and Business lines),
- Pragmatic and results oriented mindset,
- Strong autonomy with business efficiency sensitiveness and sense of priority,
- It is essential that you are able to communicate fluently in English and French.
10 years of experience in software project/application management (MOA and/or MOE) and at least 3 years in CMMI-based process management or Quality Assurance
- Successful experience in providing teams with 'agile' operational support, for instance as SCRUM Master.
- Experience in project management, in managing risks/issues and changes.
- Experience in asset management or in investment banking IT environment are appreciated.
It is mandatory that you are able to communicate fluently in English and French.