Scrum Master

Description

Scrum Master

If you're like us, you've got big ideas. At Cognizant, we're exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value-by connecting people with things, insights and experiences.

Cognizant is looking for a Sr. Agilist that understand the overall product roadmap as articulated by agile coach/product owner and translate roadmap into team specific release planning and sprint planning .

Responsibilities • Implement agile practices for one team suggested by the coach / agile coe. • Understand the overall product roadmap as articulated by agile coach/product owner and translate roadmap into team specific release planning and sprint planning. • Identify the training programs for the team members coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities self organization etc. explain benefits and scrum principles to the product owner and team. • Facilitate all interactions that the team has with the Product Owner to gather and prioritize the requirements review documented requirements as shared by the Product Owner • Guide Agile team in coming up with a size based on the requirements / features gathered At the end of each sprint track metrics (e.g. velocity code quality defect density across all phases code review metrics testing metrics) for each sprint report the same to the management • Engage with team (the scrum team being managed by the role) create training plans for the team provide coaching to team members and develop their capability.

Qualifications

#LI-JE1 • Primary Skills: Scrum Master • Work on release management activities effectively right from analysis and then prepare technical design and participate in development activities for the projects allocated in Agile PI and release cycles • Perform detailed analysis on customer issues to determine root causes and propose solutions on those items. Strong ability to work and lead the team independently on complex issues, and to collaborate efficiently to resolve customer issues quickly • Monitor the application performance, logs, reporting, custom processes, business transaction trends and production alerts of the application • Involve in application production support activities such as production defects, emergency issues & ADHOC support • Do the peer review of program components being developed & defect fixes • Work pro-actively in all release application, system, infrastructure, other dependent changes and prevent potential issues by documenting and notifying system gaps to the respective application or infrastructure support teams

Qualifications

Technical Skills

SNo

Primary Skill

Proficiency Level *

Rqrd./Dsrd.

1

CX-Scrum Master

PL4

Required

2

Agile PLM

PL4

Required

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level

Generic Reference

PL1

The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.

PL2

The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.

PL3

The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.

PL4

The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.