Project Manager/Scrum Master

Experience

10+ years.

Mandatory skills

Expertise in Agile Scrum processes and ceremonies, Experience in managing end to end product development, Estimation, Scheduling, Tracking, Stakeholder management, Passionate about Detailing, Good verbal & written communication, Excellent Client Account /Relationship Management and Negotiation skills, Agile Project Management skills.

Qualification

Certifications on Agile and Scrum Methodology (CSM etc.)

Job Description / Duties and Responsibilities

1. Expertise in playing Scrum Master role to handle iterative product development in Agile Methodology with
   hands on experience in efficient anchoring of scrum ceremonies and processes.
2. Experience in managing delivery using Agile Scrum methodology for medium and large-scale enterprise
   products, collaborating closely with Product Owners, Technical Architects and Business SMEs.
3. Experience in Product Development in Web/Mobile technologies with industry standard engineering
   practices (CI/CD, DevOps, Automated Testing, Unit Testing through Code, Automated Review Gates etc.)
4. Passionate about going into details and understand ground reality from the scrum teams to make effective
   decisions.
5. Experience in managing teams of size > 20
6. Well versed in ALM tools like Jira for Agile Scrum development.
7. Excellent team management skills, enabling each team member to improve their competencies and work
   quality. Has skills to manage conflict resolution in team amicably and holding up the scrum values of
   Openness, Respect, and courage.
8. Adequate technical exposure to understand modern web/mobile application development along with ability
   to visualize and understand technology architecture
9. Experience and confidence in client management with good articulation, detailing and negotiation skills.
10. Capable in coordinating client interactions for product requirement grooming and detailing, product
    development with modern engineering practices, user acceptance testing, rollout and release phases.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Manage one or more scrum teams each of 8-10 resources
2. Scrum Master, Agile Champion
   a. Product Backlog Management – Helps the product owner to ensure a healthy product backlog is
   maintained and user stories are available for future sprints satisfying DoR criteria
   b. Product Grooming – With the help of Lead BA decide the Stories to be taken for each grooming
   session based on the project schedule
   c. Identify technical gaps in features during grooming and planning activities, involve Architects
   as required to solve them
   d. Sprint planning – Facilitate the Dev team to identify the tasks and absolute estimates for each
   story groomed and planned for sprint. Help the team to confirm sprint backlog based on the
   team velocity and resource availability
   e. Daily Scrum meetings – Conduct daily scrum meetings, identify challenges in sprint plan and
   take appropriate actions
   f. Regularly track the progress of Sprint plan, QC Releases etc. with the help of Burn Down charts
   g. Sprint Reviews/Demo – Schedule Sprint Demos at conclusion of every sprint, Identify Stories
   for demo and prepare demo plan with the help of Leads. Track and close comments given
   during demo.
   h. Sprint Retrospection – Promote and ensure open feedbacks from team members on good and
   bad things happened in Sprint, take and track suggestions to improve
   i. Sprint Velocity – Continuously seek ways to improve velocity of the scrum teams and
   implement those measures
   j. Sprint Reports – Generate insightful reports using ALM tools and recommend course
   corrections to improve agility and efficiency of scrum teams
   k. Scope Change Control – While maintaining the Agility, keep close track of scope change
   creeps and proactively communicate them with PO/stakeholders
3. Be a true servant leader to the team and win the confidence of the team through regular interactions,
   professional friendliness, courtesy, respect, and knowledge.
4. Analysis Skills – Natural interest to analysis and problem-solving. Should be able to analyze business
   problems faced by the client and provide solutions.
5. Client Management
   a. Build customer confidence through detailing, pro-active nature, business value additions and
   quality
   b. Conduct regular status meetings with stakeholders and communicate threats identified,
   actions planned, forecasted dates for milestones, dependencies with client teams etc.
   c. Negotiate and arrive at consensus on scope changes, change requests etc.
6. Project Metrics Management
   a. Prepare and track project schedule based on the defined scope, team size, dependencies etc.
   b. By closely monitoring the work progress, challenges involved, identify the threats or delays in
   project schedule and inform the stakeholders on the impacts with data points to substantiate
   c. Prepare invoice plans considering the revenue and cost of the project. Complete ownership of
   managing the project commercials. Ensure that the margins defined in project plan is met
   through proper planning and tracking
   d. Prepare timesheets for TnM projects and ensure timely invoicing from clients
   e. Ensure the quality of every deliverable by coordinating Reviews, Testing etc. with respective
   teams
7. Excellent communication skills – written and verbal. Articulate points with clarity and support of data

Any Additional Information/Specifics

1. Experience in Quality assurance and Business Analysis.
2. Highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment.
3. Comfortable with proactive outward communication, leadership and positive about accepting challenges.
4. To adhere to ISMS policies and procedures.