Scrum Master (Slough) - Senior Manager
- Recruiter
- Cognizant
- Location
- Slough
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 25 Oct 2014
- Closes
- 30 Oct 2014
- Sectors
- Business Opportunities
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Summary of Job Purpose:
Reporting to the Online Delivery Manager, the role holder will be responsible for all development activities for an agreed work stream within the Online space. The role holder will coordinate design, build and testing activities for a series of Agile sprints managing a cross functional team of business analysts, developers, testers and service development resources.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Working with the business to define the agreed content of a sprint
2. Supporting the Product Owners in the development of user stories and constructing Sprint Backlogs
3. Agile estimation
4. Determining, managing and improving the delivery velocity and quality of the teams outputs
5. Tracking and managing risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies
6. Facilitate the daily team stand up meetings
7. Managing key project tracking assets such as Burn Down' charts
8. Run project retrospectives
9. Facilitation of Show & Tell' sessions to play back the sprint outputs back to the key stakeholders
10. Coordinate with the infrastructure teams to secure the necessary development and test systems
11. Identify areas where the delivery team need architecture and design support and the coordination of Agile research spikes
12. SCRUM reports to be complete as required
13. Agile coaching, mentoring and sharing of best practices
14. Ensuring Test Driven Development and Automated Testing are carried out where appropriate
Key Competencies:
Good communication skills, both written and verbal
Knowledge:
Experienced/Certified Scrum Master
Agile methodologies, extreme programming and test driven development
Experience:
Experience with Agile Methodology and Agile Projects.
Mandatory to have delivery exposure to one or more of the following systems:
1) Responsive or adaptive web applications
2) High volume Online portal
3) Mobile app development
4) Multichannel Ecommerce
5) Self service dashboard
6) Online customer loyalty, promotion, voucher systems
Experience in SOA and RESTful services
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