Scrum Master

Responsibilities

• Responsible for gathering business and user requirements from stakeholders, and translates these requirements into stories to develop and deliver the required platform functionality
• Conducts client requirements elicitation using various techniques to develop and improve client requirements and business processes.
• Creates the necessary business documentation for dissemination amongst business and technical stakeholders.
• Drafts proposed changes (Change Requests or Defect documentation) for existing system for use by Dev and Test teams.
• Prepares documents like wireframes, design flow, UI, etc., as and when required.
• Oversees the overall integration of all business and systems requirements by providing required support to the technical team.
• Interacts with Scrum Team, Designers, and Developers.
• Has full understanding of the agile approach, capacity, points estimating, velocity, etc.
• Grooms the Product backlog based on the prioritization provided by the product owner.
• Ensures stakeholders are represented during planning, development, and release processes.
• Creates user stories with appropriate acceptance criteria from the business/user requirements.
• Consults with subject matter experts and technical resources to understand feasibility of requests and solutions.
• Works with the product owner to create and prioritize the product backlog.
• Provides management and direction to a Scrum development team including organizing and facilitating release and sprint planning sessions, daily stand-up meetings, sprint demos, retrospectives, story grooming sessions, and any other Scrum-related meetings.
• Tracks and communicates team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
• Affords assistance and may perform QA/Test activity to verify that requirements of all baselines have been met by the as-built software.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5+ years of experience.
• Experience as a Scrum Master/ Certified SAFe Agilist.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment across diverse systems and groups.
• Ability to facilitate discussions and help team members resolve conflicts.
• Experience using agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow, etc.).
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; and time management skills are a must.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Experience working with and supporting government clients.