Role - Scrum Master
Location - Toronto, ON - Hybrid
Duration - Long term
Role name : Scrum Master
Role Description :
Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives) to ensure efficient team workflow.
- Support the team in managing product features and backlogs, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
- Write and maintain user stories, applying Gherkin syntax to define clear acceptance criteria.
- Utilize prior QA or development experience to actively engage and support the teams product quality and solution delivery.
- Ensure seamless collaboration between product, QA, and development teams to meet Sprint, Program Increment (PI), and release objectives.
- Empower the team by removing impediments, encouraging communication, and fostering a solution-oriented mindset.
- Guide the team in Agile best practices and principles, ensuring consistent and timely delivery.
- Handle conflict resolution within the team, ensuring constructive resolution of disagreements and maintaining a positive team environment.
- Build strong relationships with the development team and stakeholders, managing expectations, and providing regular progress updates.
Essential Skills :
6+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Product Owner.
- Hands-on experience in QA or development, with a solid understanding of testing or coding practices.
- Experience in writing user stories and creating Gherkin-based acceptance criteria.
- Familiarity with behavior-driven development (BDD) and test-driven development (TDD) practices.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) and the ability to coach teams on Agile principles.
- Experience in conflict management to effectively resolve team issues and maintain productivity.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to lead teams and manage stakeholder relationships.
- Experience in managing product backlogs and prioritizing features with business objectives in mind.
- Certification in Scrum (CSM, PSM, SAFe) or Product Management is a plus.
- Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, and QA tools such as ALM or similar.
- Understanding of RESTful web services and Postman is a plus.
Desirable Skills : PSM certification. Banking Domain Experience
Thanks & Regards,
Harshaja
Apptoza Inc.
Email : [email protected]
Phone# : 647-953-1625
5 days ago