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