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

Minimum Qualifications:

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