Senior Consultant - Scrum Master

Scrum Master (Senior Consultant)

Experience: 5 to 8 Years

Required experience:

- 5 yrs to 8 years of experience in the Software domain and 3 years as a Scrum Master

- Experience in Project Management and/or serving as Scrum Master.

- Should have worked in a Development background and not Testing background.

- Management of more than one significant project at a time.

- Prior experience as a Business Analyst and/or Tester helpful, not required

- Practical use of quality management tools and techniques.

Certified ScrumMaster- (CSM) is mandatory

Prefer candidates with experience in Cloud

Qualifications:

- B.E/B.Tech./MCA/MBA or equivalent in Computer Science/IT/Management or related field preferred.

- Exceptional people skills. Comfortable working with a diverse group of people and serve as an arbitrator when conflicts arise.

Primary responsibilities:

- Serve the team and product owner in turning requirements into working software.

- Track progress and help the team achieve their commitments.

- Progress is monitored daily when problems are identified work with team to develop corrective actions.

- Manage and report the status of scope, schedule, resourcing, and financials.

- Extract and document requirements. Author user stories and acceptance criteria. Ensure team members understand processes and support the team in following them.

- Ensure product quality expectations are defined and known across the team. Collaborate with the team in scheduling work, including defect remediation and refactoring, guarding against the accumulation of technical debt.

- Work with technical team and product owner balancing the interests of both when issues arise.

- Remove impediments allowing the team to focus on engineering tasks.

- Take the lead on resolving conflicts within the team removing any roadblocks to collaboration.

- Guide project team meetings including sprint pre/planning meetings, daily scrum and sprint review meetings.

- Facilitate retrospective discussions and support continuous improvement efforts.

- Limit the external interference the team must deal with.