Virtusa Corporation

Scrum Master

  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Industry Type: IT Sector
  • Industry Location: Jersey City
  • Experience: NA
  • No. of Positions: 1
  • Salary Range: 0-100 k
  • Primary Skills: Agile .NET J2EE Java
  • Secondary Skills: Sprint Scrum
  • Job Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Posted Date: Posted today
Job Description

Mandatory Skills:
• 2+ years working in an agile environment.
• Excellent understanding of development concepts and SDLC methodologies.
• Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Understanding of object orientation and software design patterns
• Experience of testing at the unit, integration and system levels
• Experience with at least one web application server such as Tomcat, .NET or similar
• Experience in a developer contributor role
• Experienced leading team of application developers

Detailed JD:
• As a Dev Lead drive the Technical team and the Product Owners in an Agile development process.
• Making sure a Scrum team lives by the values and practices of Scrum
• Coach the team
• Facilitating Sprint Ceremonies
• Helping the Product Owner get the backlog in good shape for the next Sprint
• Facilitate the removal of impediments
• Protects the team from over-committing
• Protects the team from complacency
• Leads the teams efforts towards continuous improvement
• Facilitate developer accountability for readiness of user stories
• Facilitate and run sprint ceremonies
• Maintain team focus throughout sprints on priorities and business value
• Manage all Scrum boards (physical or virtual)
• Manage sprint backlog items and tasks
• Remove obstacles for developers and testers
• Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work
• Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
• Build the team’s Agile knowledge and skills
• Foster a culture of continuous delivery
• Understanding of (Java/J2EE or .Net, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Spring, AJAX, & JSON skills for implementing web technologies.
• Understanding in JQuery, NodeJS, AngularJS, extJS, SenchaTouch Framework, Promise, and other frameworks like (FlightJS, requireJS, wireJS , AngularJS)
• Understanding of multithreaded software design.
• Understanding of the AJAX and Spring frameworks.
• Experience with other Agile/Lean practices such as XP or Kanban
• Participation in Test Driven Development or Business Driven Development
• Practice of Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery

 

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