W2 Contract Role_Scrum Master/Product Development_Danvers, MA (Onsite Role)

Position: Scrum Master

Location: Danvers, MA (Onsite Role)

Duration: 12 Month Contract

Duration: Long Term Contract

Position Type: W2 Contract only

Note- Need Candidates from Product Development Background

Job Description:

The Scrum Master serves as a critical liaison between Product Owners, Software Development, Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure effective planning, execution, and delivery of software products.

This role is responsible for facilitating Agile processes, ensuring sprint commitments are met, and driving high-quality requirements development, traceability, and design control management in compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.

Product Development experience is mandatory, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Key Responsibilities

• Sprint Planning & Execution
• Facilitate sprint planning activities to ensure sprint goals are clearly defined and achievable.
• Monitor sprint progress and proactively identify risks, impediments, and dependencies that may impact delivery.
• Drive accountability within the development team to ensure sprint commitments and sprint goals are achieved.
• Collaborate with team members to remove obstacles that hinder progress
• Backlog & Work Item Management
• Review user stories and work items to ensure acceptance criteria are complete, measurable, testable, and aligned with intended outcomes.
• Work closely with Product Owners and team leads to clarify scope and requirements before work enters a sprint.
• Support prioritization and re-prioritization of sprint work as needed to maximize delivery value while maintaining sprint focus.
• Ensure tickets are appropriately refined, estimated, and ready for development.

Agile Ceremonies:

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including: o Sprint Planning o Daily Stand-ups o Sprint Reviews/Demos o Sprint Retrospectives o Backlog Refinement Sessions
• Promote continuous improvement through effective retrospective discussions and action tracking.
• Provide Agile coaching and guidance to team members and stakeholders.

Reporting & Communication:

• Track sprint metrics and communicate progress, risks, blockers, and delivery status to stakeholders.
• Foster collaboration across Product Management, Development, QA, QE, and leadership teams.

Business Analyst Responsibilities Requirements Development & Management:

• Partner with Product Owners, Software Developers, QA, and QE to define, analyze, and document software requirements.
• Translate business and user needs into clear, complete, and testable Software Requirements Specifications (SRS).
• Ensure requirements support intended product functionality and regulatory compliance objectives.
• Facilitate requirements review sessions and drive stakeholder alignment.

Traceability Management

• Own end-to-end requirements traceability across: User Needs (UNS)
• Design Inputs (DIR), Software Requirements Specifications (SRS)
• User Interface Requirement Specification (UIRS)
• Language Requirements Specification (LRS)
• Ensure traceability matrices remain accurate, complete, and audit-ready.
• Identify and resolve traceability gaps and inconsistencies.

Design Control Administration

• Own and maintain requirements and design control records within Jama.
• Facilitate the creation, organization, review, and maintenance of requirements artifacts within Jama.
• Coordinate routing of requirements and related artifacts for stakeholder review and approval.
• Monitor approval workflows and ensure completion within project timelines.
• Generate and export design control documentation from Jama such as SRS, UIRS, LRS, SDD

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as a bridge between business, product, development, quality assurance, quality engineering, system, UI/UX, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Support impact assessments for requirement changes and product enhancements.

Qualifications Required Experience:

• Experience serving as a Scrum Master, Business Analyst, or similar Agile delivery role.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience writing and managing software requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with requirements management and traceability tools such as Jama.
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional discussions and drive consensus among stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in regulated industries such as medical devices
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
• Knowledge of design controls, requirements traceability, and quality system requirements.
• Experience supporting audit readiness and regulatory documentation activities.

Salary : $40 - $45