Product Owner, Test Automation (Remote)

Product Owner, Test Automation (Remote)

Reports to: Director of Product Management

Department: Product Management

This product owner position will be focused on the test automation program in support of Suvoda’s flagship IRT product. The product owner will work with Suvoda’s Product Development organization to iteratively evolve Suvoda’s test automation program from conceptualization to implementation of best-in-class tools and/or process updates in support of improving testing efficiency. We are looking for a product owner who is excited by and motivated by the challenge of transforming the Suvoda testing approach.  

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for definition of user stories and definition of done for assigned line of product
• Leads program increment planning, including monthly milestone demo reviews to key business stakeholders
• Participates, and sometimes leads, scrum team meetings from sprint planning to sprint retrospectives to ensure timely product releases
• Track and report on scrum team velocity 
• Act as the voice for the scrum team
• Work with Product Managers to support the planning cadence
• Create and maintain product release documentation and coordinate completion with product development team
• Support Product Manager activities throughout the lifecycle of a product release
• Maintain product usage, feature requests and core bugs metrics
• Work with sales to demo and discuss current and planned product solutions to current and prospective clients
• Perform other related duties as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Ability to reason from first principles
• Strategic and highly analytical
• Ability to drive progress; to execute and follow-through
• Strong interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills
• Time management and organizational skills
• Creative problem-solving ability
• Sense of ownership and pro-activity

Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience as a product owner or other leadership role working directly with development and testing teams
• 3-5 years of experience in IRT strongly preferred