Scrum Master

Responsibilities

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews/demos, and retrospectives for multiple teams in stable environments.
• Track and communicate team commitments, velocity and sprint/quarterly progress.
• Collaborate across scrum teams in R&D to help remove team impediments.
• Escalate team impediments that the team are unable to resolve themselves, or with your help.
• Relentlessly driving continuous improvement through:
  • Retrospectives, learning, giving feedback, challenging the team, and coaching others to do so as well.
  • Continuous learning on agile techniques such as story mapping, CI/CD, BDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automation.
• Highlight team success within and outside the team.
• Plan and facilitate quarterly planning events.
• Present and communicate to product development executives and leadership.
• Coach team members:
  • To improve collaboration and self-organization
  • On Agile practices and encourage inspection and adaptation
  • To ensure backlog is refined (properly defined User Stories)

• Self-organizing, thorough, and efficient
• One or more of the following certifications: CSM, Advanced CSM, SSM, PSM I, PSM II, PMS III, SAFe Certification
• At least 4+ years of technical experience and 2+ years as Scrum Master of combined QA/Dev scrum teams.
• Ability to establish a data-driven culture and a repeatable, structured, and disciplined approach to the agile process.
• Ability to manage the dependencies between team capacity, prioritization, software quality and committed deadlines.
• Strong knowledge and certification in Agile methodology and framework such as Lean, Kanban, XP, etc.
• Experience with JIRA/Confluence/SharePoint preferred and JIRA/Azure Dev Ops/SharePoint admin skills a bonus.
• Fluency with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.