Scrum Master (TDD/CI-CD/Software Engineering)

Job description:
– Be the scrum master for 2 to 3 scrum teams, which may be distributed nationally. You will need to organize and facilitate release planning, daily scrum meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint
planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
– Other responsibilities include:

• Ensure team is practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through user story selection, point estimation and task definition
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Communicate and manage key issues and risks
• Train other team members on Scrum
• Work with product owners to drive backlog clarity
• Work with project management to keep release commitments on track
• Work with a small group to facilitate the departments move to Agile. This group is the Agile core team who discusses problems the Agile projects are having (or we anticipate they will have) and devise training and interventions to help with the problems.

Qualifications:

• Min. 3+ years of work experience as a scrum master and must have been a software engineering candidate
• Must have experience working with core software product engineering groups
• Expert experience in Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Delivery (CD), Test Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience in using JIRA ,Rally & Jira tools at full potential and customizing it based on the team needs (Custom workflow definitions, Test management) Admin level experience
• Experience in organizing Scrum Ceremonies ( Sprint Planning, Sprint retro, Backlog refinement, Scrum, SoS)
• Good understanding and experience in Story Point estimation and the value it brings to the team
• Experience with generating sprint/release level reports (Burn-down/ Burn-up charts,
• Ability to handle 2 Scrum teams with 10 team members
• Passionate towards driving process improvements and delivering better quality products
• Experience in working with Cloud based/SaaS applications
• Certification: Professional Scrum Master by Scrum.org or CSP(Certified Scrum Professional)/ CSM(Certified Scrum Master) by Scrum Alliance
• Scrum Coaching experience and coach the team when needed

Keywords: Certified Scrum Master, Senior Scrum Master, CSM Coach, Scrum Coach, Scrum Specialist, Scrum Agile Champion, Java, Project Manager, C++, SDLC, Development, Engineering, Linux,
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