Role - Scrum Master

Location - Toronto, ON - Hybrid

Duration - Long term

Role name: Scrum Master

Role Description:

Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives) to ensure efficient team workflow.

? Support the team in managing product features and backlogs, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.

? Write and maintain user stories, applying Gherkin syntax to define clear acceptance criteria.

? Utilize prior QA or development experience to actively engage and support the teams product quality and solution delivery.

? Ensure seamless collaboration between product, QA, and development teams to meet Sprint, Program Increment (PI), and release objectives.

? Empower the team by removing impediments, encouraging communication, and fostering a solution-oriented mindset.

? Guide the team in Agile best practices and principles, ensuring consistent and timely delivery.

? Handle conflict resolution within the team, ensuring constructive resolution of disagreements and maintaining a positive team environment.? Build strong relationships with the development team and stakeholders, managing expectations, and providing regular progress updates.

Essential Skills:

6+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Product Owner.

? Hands-on experience in QA or development, with a solid understanding of testing or coding practices.

? Experience in writing user stories and creating Gherkin-based acceptance criteria.

? Familiarity with behavior-driven development (BDD) and test-driven development (TDD) practices.

? Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) and the ability to coach teams on Agile principles.

? Experience in conflict management to effectively resolve team issues and maintain productivity.

? Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to lead teams and manage stakeholder relationships.

? Experience in managing product backlogs and prioritizing features with business objectives in mind.

? Certification in Scrum (CSM, PSM, SAFe) or Product Management is a plus.

? Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, and QA tools such as ALM or similar.

? Understanding of RESTful web services and Postman is a plus.

Desirable Skills: PSM certification. Banking Domain Experience

Thanks & Regards,

Harshaja

Apptoza Inc.

Email: [email protected]

Phone#:647-953-1625