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Scrum Master at Cognizant

Posted in Information Technology 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Chicago, Illinois





Job Description:

Cognizant Technology Solutions is seeking for a Scrum Master who could join in our team of professionals in a permanent role If you meet our background requirements and skills and looking for an opportunity to be rewarded for your skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you.

Cognizant will not sponsor H1B or other U.S. work authorization, or lawful permanent residence ( otherwise known as "Green Card") for this role.

Role : Scrum Master

Location : East Syracuse or Chicago, IL

 Roles & Responsibilities :

The scrum master coaches the scrum team and ensures the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use

-    Coaches the team members in self-management and cross-functionality

-    Helps the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done

-    Ensures that all Scrum events take place and are positive  productive  and kept within the time box

-    Removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress

-    Coaches the Product owner (Backlogs/Roadmaps etc.)

-    Helps find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management

-    Helps the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items

-    Helps establish empirical product planning for a complex environment

-    Facilitates stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed

-    Removes barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams

-    Monitors/Motivate the progress of the Sprint

-    Helps team estimates and increase velocity 

-    Serves the team where needed

-    Ensure team is compliance in scrum board updates

-    Ensures Sprint artifacts/key documents maintained in common share path

-    Create and maintain scrum board with transparency in tools

-    Monitor Key Agile metrics and report to stakeholders 

-    Promotes continuous communication

Skills/Technical Expertise Required:

- Project Management and Microsoft Project tool expert

- Agile Processes

- Estimation methodologies

- Scope Management

- Requirements Gathering

- Ability to organize work activities

- Attention to detail

- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills

- Strong analytical skills

- General IT knowledge and ability to apply that to daily activities  

Key responsibilities:

- Identify high level schedule and layout the sprint  release  project plan

- Provide staffing plan for the release

- Present the project plan with expected completion date to business for initial review

- Track the projects’ progress against the project plan mpp document and update the % completion

- Send regular reports on progress update  Burn down charts  Velocity.

- Develop standards documents around best practices 

- Manage scope in coordination with client

- Status update to client and leadership and offshore coordination

- Provide Status on resource utilization

-Maintain RAID Log/Impediment

-Status reporting on Sprints

-Ability to manage the scrum team with different objectives

-Ability to manage Multiple Scrum teams

 

Certification(s) Required :

-    Scrum Master Certification

Qualification

Holds Bachelors degree, Computer Science or relate course preferred.





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