Scrum Master

Role:-Scrum Master

Location:-Seattle, WA

Position type :- Contract

No of positions :- 1

JD - Scrum Master

Main Responsibilities

Organize daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
Responsible to Conduct retrospective meetings.
Facilitate the scrum teams for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development teams.
Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology
Help product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
Possesses conflict resolution, does conversation by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.
As the expert in estimation and planning, to create useful, reliable and practical plans for software development projects.
Coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
Help team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.
Provide Agile and Scrum trainings to platform and development teams within Integration platform team.

Technical Skills and experience

Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
Good skills to coach team how to follow agile scrum.
Understand the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices.
Knowledge of other Agile approaches, like: Kanban etc.
Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, so that he can explain other methodologies to motivate the team.
Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs.
Ability to take and understand the commitment to deliver the product on time.
Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
Knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
Familiar with common development practices, Service oriented environments, and Agile practices.
Ability to shield the team from outside distractions and interferences.
Ability to ensure the correct use of scrum process.
5+ years’ experience as scrum master