*Scrum Master Job – C2C* Job Location: Dallas, TX
Duration: 10 months contract Pay-terms: C2C Rate: $50/hr on C2C – Fixed and non-negotiable Priority: Very High Interviews: Skype only – 2 rounds Openings: 2 active roles Visa: Open Level: Senior *Job Description: * The major responsibilities of this role is facilitating the scrum ceremonies, responsible for monitoring the scrum processes and scrum meetings. The job is to make sure that project is working smoothly and every team member has tools to get their work done efficiently. Scrum master is a challenging role and needs to understand according to priority set by the product owner. Scrum Master must groom and execute the backlog as wished by product owner, making sure that deliverables are on time with production quality and ensure observance of DoD (Definition of done). Scrum master needs to be involved in team conflicts and must have good communication skills. They must be actively involved in technical matters thus finding out the gaps and ensuring product owner involvement in business decision and description of the functional flow. *Required Experience:* · Experience with Agile techniques · Experience working in an Agile Delivery model · Experience using Jira to produce Agile User Stories · Project management · Data Integration / Migration *Required Skill set: * · Scrum master is responsible to assist facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings. · Possesses conflict resolution, does conversation by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect. · Should be a friendly communicative person, because when team is moving fast in Agile, communication is the effective force which holds the team together. · Needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source. · Needs to be expert in estimation and planning. Must know how to create useful, reliable and practical plans for software development projects. · Should be a good coach in Agile Scrum practices. Coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools. · Help team or individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them. · Ability to shield his team from outside distractions and interferences. · Ability to ensure the correct use of scrum process. · Ability to track and remove impediments. · Scrum master is a servant first, who serves his team members before considering about himself. · Must know how to recommend Agile user story slicing. *Responsibilities:* · Facilitate his team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team. · Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology. · Responsible to remove the impediments for the scrum team. · Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process. · Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint. · Responsible to conduct retrospective meetings. · Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting. · Acts as safeguard for his team. · Project leadership. *Technical Skills:* · Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc. · Good skills to coach team how to follow agile scrum, which really works. · Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development. · Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices. · Knowledge of other Agile approaches, like: Kanban, Crystal, FDD, XP, etc. · Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, so that he can explain other methodologies to motivate his team. · Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand his team needs. · He should have knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games. · Ability to take and understand his commitment to deliver the product on time. · Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery. · Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc. · Familiar with common development practices, Service oriented environments, and Agile practices. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Visa Transfer OPT, CPT, PT, H1,H4" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to paul_talluri+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to paul_talluri@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/paul_talluri. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
