| Hi, I am Akhilesh, working as a Technical Recruiter at Vbeyond Corporation. We provide staffing solutions to our clients nationwide. Please find the below job description and let me know if you are interested.
Role: Scrum Master Location: Atlanta, GA/ Remote till covid Job Description: Qualifications Fill the role of Scrum Master for one or two teams with the responsibilities as follows: • Understand the difference between Agile and Scrum and be able to articulate it • Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software • Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective. Ensure all participants understand the ceremony purpose and keep to the time-box. • Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress • Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration - both inside and outside of team – allowing them to self-organize • Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal • Understand and be able to articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team's environment and progress toward them • Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined – prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints. • Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition • Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria • Proactively manage dependencies • Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs • Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice • Participate in the agile community both internal to Assurant and external with other practitioners • Enforces the valueBasic Qualifications: • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Industry certification – Required • 8+ years of experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams Other Requirements • Agile experience within a multi-team organization • Experience working with distributed, virtual teams • Experience coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters • Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching skills • Expert understanding and deep tool box of Agile practices such as: retrospectives, daily standups, sprint planning, burn down techniques • Experience working with external teams and vendors • Experience with agile team tools such as Jira, VersionOne or TFS • Ability to collaborate and exercise influence Thanks & Regards,
Akhilesh Gupta IT Recruiter – IT Staffing USA VBeyond Corporation +1 908-988-0329 Ext::222 akhileshg@vbeyond.com Amwell Commons,, 390 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, New Jersey, USA – 088 44 www.vbeyond.com | 
