Scrum Master - Mississauga, Canada - Virtusa

Virtusa

Verified Company

Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Description:

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities

Advocate, and coach Agile (scrum) processes, ensuring that the team is always following the framework and looking for opportunities to continuously improve.

Serve as Scrum Master for up to two Agile teams.

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, Sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and other Scrum-related meetings.

Escalate and/or resolve impediments. Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.

Leverage data to measure & monitor progress against commitments.

Guiding the Scrum Team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to meet program objectives.

Ensure adherence to the Citi Agile processes and procedures

Act as advisor or ad-hoc coach to those new to Agile methodology and guide them in the adoption of Agile software development practices (writing user stories, release schedules and integration planning, scrum meetings, velocity and capacity planning).

Required Skills:

Qualifications:

Good to Have - PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or similar certification

Good to Have - Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification

Experience with in-depth knowledge of Scrum and implementation of Agile Methodologies

Strong knowledge of Scrum Management, Sprint and Release planning

Understanding of and experience with Software Development Life Cycles; must have a solid background utilizing an Agile approach to software development.

Excellent interpersonal communication and facilitation skills and proven ability to work with diverse personality types.

Effective oral, written, and presentation skills are required

Ability to gain credibility to influence decision makers and influencers (influence within and across boundaries) without direct authority.

Knowledge and/or experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games

Nice to have skills:

About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody.

When you join us, you join a team of 36,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Great minds, great potential:
it all comes together at Virtusa.

We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.

Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.