Hunter Industries

About This Role:

The Agile Delivery & Quality Lead guides multiple cross-functional teams in applying Agile and Scrum practices alongside quality standards to deliver high-performing software solutions and digital experiences across the company’s products and online platforms. This role fosters collaboration among firmware, backend, mobile, QA, UX/UI, and product teams—ensuring that sprints are well-planned, impediments are removed quickly, and teams remain focused on delivering customer value.

Demonstrates behavior that is consistent with the company’s values of Customer Satisfaction, Innovation, Family, and Social Responsibility.

Essential Job Functions/Tasks:

• Facilitates Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives) for multiple project teams across software, marketing web development, and web application projects.
• Serves as a servant leader to the development teams, ensuring they remain focused on sprint commitments.
• Removes impediments that block team progress and proactively identifies risks to delivery timelines.
• Partners with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure clear definition of requirements, sprint goals, and acceptance criteria.
• Promotes collaboration between firmware, backend, mobile, QA, and UX/UI engineers.
• Supervises the QA/Automation Engineer, setting priorities, ensuring alignment of automation coverage across all projects, and supporting career development within the shared services team; is responsible for hiring, training, performance management, and other people leadership activities.
• Oversees QA and automation processes to ensure consistent testing coverage, sprint integration, and release quality across all supported projects.
• Collaborates with the QA/Automation Engineer to define testing priorities, maintain regression suites, and track quality metrics such as defect trends and automation rate.
• Partners with other teams to embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring builds meet defined quality gates before release.
• Coordinates shared services resourcing and scheduling to balance QA support across concurrent projects.
• Partners closely with Product Owners and marketing stakeholders to maintain a healthy backlog, align sprint goals with business objectives, and drive continuous improvement.
• Protects teams from external interruptions and scope creep.
• Monitors and reports on sprint progress and delivery metrics (velocity, burndown, quality) and provides insights for continuous improvement.
• Promotes Agile best practices and a culture of collaboration, accountability, and transparency across all teams; adapts methods to fit each team’s needs.
• Coaches team members and stakeholders on Agile principles, tools, and techniques to enhance team maturity and performance.
• Documents team progress, sprint outcomes, and retrospective actions for leadership visibility.
• Focuses on the voice of the customer and continuously improves products and services to deliver meaningful user value.

Education/Training Required and Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Marketing, or related field or a combination of education and relevant work experience.
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, or equivalent) strongly preferred.

Experience Required and Preferred:

• Minimum 3 years of Scrum Master or Agile facilitator experience across software and digital marketing/web application projects.
• Minimum 1 year of supervisory experience.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (design, engineering, marketing, QA).
• Familiarity with Agile in mixed contexts (IoT, mobile, CMS/web).
• Experience with Agile project management tools (Jira, Confluence, or similar).

What You Bring:

• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban).
• Ability to facilitate across software product teams and marketing web teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to adapt Agile practices to fit diverse project types (iterative, campaign-driven, or hybrid).
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
• Skilled at conflict resolution and consensus building.
• Must be flexible and able to manage multiple parallel initiatives.
• Experience supporting QA alignment within Agile delivery.
• Knowledge of CMS workflows (Drupal or similar) preferred.
• Familiarity with IoT or SaaS product development preferred.
• Working knowledge of software quality assurance principles, methodologies, and best practices within Agile environments.
• Familiarity with modern test automation tools and frameworks (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Jest, or similar)
• Understanding of CI/CD processes and how automated testing integrates into continuous delivery pipelines.
• Ability to interpret QA metrics and translate them into actionable process improvements.
• Ability to mentor QA professionals and foster a culture of quality and accountability across development teams.

What We Offer:

• Amazing corporate culture - we walk the walk when it comes to our values!
• Beautiful 20 acre park like campus with creek and walking trails
• On site wellness center with personal training, fitness classes and massage
• FUN company events!
• Company donation matching and volunteer rewards
• Career development opportunities and profit sharing bonus

Follow us on LinkedIn, check out our rave reviews on Glassdoor, and learn more about our company culture on our career site: http://corporate.hunterindustries.com/careers

Hunter is a global leader in the irrigation, outdoor lighting, dispensing technology, and custom manufacturing industries. Driving our continued success is the combined energy and talents of the nearly 4,000 people on our team. Together, we create a diverse array of products that can be seen all over the world, from residential landscapes to national landmarks, stadiums, parks, hotels, and municipal buildings.

Hunter Industries and its Family of Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic.

The salary for this opportunity ranges from $104,000 to $140,000

The Company complies with all federal/local/state regulations in regard to pay. The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Compensation offered to the successful candidate will be determined by qualifications, prior experience, other job-related factors, and geographic location.