Required Skills

Senior Scrum Master

Work Authorization

  • US Citizen

  • Green Card

  • EAD (OPT/CPT/GC/H4)

  • H1B Work Permit

Preferred Employment

  • Corp-Corp

  • W2-Permanent

  • W2-Contract

  • Contract to Hire

Employment Type

  • Consulting/Contract

education qualification

  • UG :- - Not Required

  • PG :- - Not Required

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  • No of position :- ( 1 )

  • Post :- 5th Dec 2023

JOB DETAIL

•           Serve as Scrum Master leading Agile teams focusing on projects for Debit Card and Checks squad.

•           Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organizations.

•           Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous agile improvement.

•           Develop team norms and balance workload for onshore and offshore developers, testers and Product Owners.

•           Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies (e.g., Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand Up, Test Plan and Test Case reviews, Sprint Demos, Retrospectives, etc.).

•           Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.

•           Maintain team metrics and report project statuses (e.g., velocity/burn down charts, financial status, issues/risks, etc.) on a regular basis to Product Owner and to senior stakeholders.

•           Take ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through Scrum-of-Scrums ceremony.

•           Takes a lead role in overall release management, which includes end-to-end regression test coordination, ensuring SDLC artifact adherence, runbook coordination, and deployment support.

•           Oversee Production issues, partner with Product Owner on impact assessment and prioritization of production issues.

Required Skills:

•           Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.

•           10+ years of overall experience.

•           5+ years of investment banking experience.

•           7+ years hands-on experience in a large complex banking organization or major consulting organization acting as a Scrum Master utilizing Agile Scrum and Kanban frameworks.

•           5+ years of hands-on experience with Agile project management software/tools (e.g., JIRA, etc.).

•           Proven relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.

•           4+ Years developing full-scale project plans and associated communication documents, including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path.

•           Experience estimating resources needed to achieve project goals.

•           Hands on-experience proactively managing change in project scope, identifying potential issues, and devising contingency plans.

•           Proficient with MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint.

Preferred Skills:

•           Technical background in integration, development, testing, and/or infrastructure is nice to have.

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