Scrum Master-Ericsson

Toronto, ON

Job Description

Responsibilities :

Facilitate, coach, mentor team members to follow all the agile best practices and create an ideal Agile environment.
Help the team remove impediments and escalate impediments that are outside of the team's purview and make sure the team is on track through the sprint to achieve the target.
Communicate with a wide variety of vendors, stakeholders, both business and technical, to ensure value driven delivery and continuous improvement of the team (via implementation of Sprint Retrospective session’s feedbacks/suggestions).
Work with teams to remove conflicts and negotiate well to arrive at consensus for continuous delivery progress.
Able to work with Product Owners and Client teams to ensure the team has a healthy backlog and also prioritize the backlog for upcoming sprints working in collaboration with Product owners.
Report the timely progress of sprint via burn down/burn up charts and other reporting methods (as per project needs) to PO and stakeholders involved.
Ensuring a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team and also protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
Addressing all Team dynamics and also ensuring a healthy environment for the team to be most effective.
Deciding team’s velocity and setting up the sprint targets accordingly to make sure team is neither overloaded nor under loaded.

Requirement:

Minimum 5+ years of overall experience in IT industry
Relevant Experience of 2+ years in a scrum master role
Scrum master certification is a must
Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and JIRA artifacts (such as acceptance criteria, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
Good communication and servant leadership skills
Proficient in English language (speak and write)
Technical background with software development experience is a plus.