NCR, NCR, Philippines

Scrum Master

 Job Description:

The Role:


As a Scrum Master, you are a Delivery manager, project manager, then Agile methodologies it should state scrum master, ie “have you lead any scrum teams?” so would someone looking after a team of 4-5 people (usually developers and a QC) to ensure every 2 week sprint has tasks activities assigned and tracking to the end delivery of that sprint.


  • As a person who leads by example, champions’ innovation and quality and knows how to deliver. You will be responsible for:
  • Facilitate the delivery of working software from concept to live using Agile methodologies
  • Help align business goals with release plans to ensure timely delivery of features
  • Fostering collaboration among teams and protect the team from external influences or distractions
  • Arrange and lead agile ceremonies, daily scrum, sprint planning, refinement sessions, discovery sessions, sprint demo and retrospectives
  • Challenge the team to improve on processes and inspire them to find new better ways of working
  • Help identify and mitigate delivery risks
  • Drive, track and communicate the progress of sprints and releases through team velocity and burn down charts

 

To be successful in this role, you must possess the following:

 

  • Strong practical experience and understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, XP, BDD and TDD
  • Spent 2 / 3 years working as a true Scrum Master
  • Having worked in teams delivering complex projects on time and schedule, resolving problems at the team and organization level
  • Has excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven experience managing stakeholder and teams
  • Experienced in estimation techniques and planning for software development projects
  • Experience in effectively collaborating with wider non-agile teams
  • Stakeholder management with statistics around tasks, backlog tracking, and burn down metrics, velocity, and user stories etc.
  • Demonstrable ability to self-manage, be proactive, take ownership, build relationships and drive solutions through from inception to production

 

Personal Qualities:

 

  • Great, positive attitude, social personality and a true team player
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work independently and without supervision
  • Problem-solving aptitude
  • Influence and champion new ideas and methods
  • Methodical and with attention to detail

 

The role will work onsite at our Manila office in BGC and work within Australian/US Time Zone.

  Required Skills:

ARe Managing User Stories Stakeholder Management Development Kanban Ownership Metrics Features Developers Agile Methodologies Statistics Software Development Scrum Software Planning Communication Business Management