Responsibilities
* Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews/demos, and retrospectives for multiple teams in stable environments.
* Track and communicate team commitments, velocity and sprint/quarterly progress.
* Collaborate across scrum teams in R&D to help remove team impediments.
* Escalate team impediments that the team are unable to resolve themselves, or with your help.
* Relentlessly driving continuous improvement through:
o Retrospectives, learning, giving feedback, challenging the team, and coaching others to do so as well.
o Continuous learning on agile techniques such as story mapping, CI/CD, BDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automation.
* Highlight team success within and outside the team.
* Plan and facilitate quarterly planning events.
* Present and communicate to product development executives and leadership.
* Coach team members:
o To improve collaboration and self-organization
o On Agile practices and encourage inspection and adaptation
o To ensure backlog is refined (properly defined User Stories)
Qualifications
* Self-organizing, thorough, and efficient
* One or more of the following certifications: CSM, Advanced CSM, SSM, PSM I, PSM II, PMS III, SAFe Certification
* At least 4+ years of technical experience and 2+ years as Scrum Master of combined QA/Dev scrum teams.
* Ability to establish a data-driven culture and a repeatable, structured, and disciplined approach to the agile process.
* Ability to manage the dependencies between team capacity, prioritization, software quality and committed deadlines.
* Strong knowledge and certification in Agile methodology and framework such as Lean, Kanban, XP, etc.
* Experience with JIRA/Confluence/SharePoint preferred and JIRA/Azure DevOps/SharePoint admin skills a bonus.
* Fluency with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
* Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
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