Job Opportunities in India

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Manage each project’s scope and timeline.
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups .
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks.
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders).
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.
• Help teams implement changes effectively.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity.
• Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it.
• Create project plans and define project milestones to be executed by project teams, while ensuring the optimal use of resources to meet the client objectives.
• Drive and interface with project stakeholders (including business) from Requirement analysis, - Designs, Development to Deployment fulfilling all required Compliance, Validation requirements.
• Play a role of a Scrum Master and ensure that user stories are delivered by the development team within estimated time and budget.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Understand and articulate the business and technical implications of decisions that are being made by the project teams, whilst managing senior stakeholder relationships to ensure successful project delivery.
• Effectively communicate and manage clients expectations throughout the development life cycle.
• Manage a cross functional team of designers, developers and quality engineers and be able to guide them and resolve their issues.
• Monitor the project status and present relevant project reports to the internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 - 5 years of scrum master role and project management experience.
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement) .
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment.
• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction.
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills.
• Scrum master certification is a plus.