Scrum Master

Job Summary: A Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring that the team/organization embraces the agile values and principles. Assists and coaches the Scrum Team to deliver excellent and innovative software solutions, which contain complex yet intuitive functionalities to customers. Moreover, s/he plays an active role in enabling the rapid delivery of high quality products to meet customer experience and requirements. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Coach the team Facilitate scrum ceremonies Assist the PO in grooming the backlog Eliminate impediments Shield the development team from interruptions Conduct training sessions about agile practices, values, and principles Facilitate resolution of obstacles and escalation of issues when necessary Resolve conflicts Ensure that on certain events, relevant documents are made available such as the following: Planning Phase: Definition of Ready, Definition of Done Sprint Phase: Impediment list Inspection Phase: Retrospective Items Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar field With at least 3-year experience as Scrum Master Sound knowledge on the following: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) or production process Knowledge in TPS (Toyota Production System preferred) Good socratic questioning skill Scrum Certified Some knowledge in Extreme Programming (XP) Proficient in collaboration tools (e.g Jira) Insight to common problems encountered by teams