Company Description
We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.
In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.
We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.
Job Description
Must Have Skills:
- Agile certifications (PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP, CSC, SAFe SA, SAFe SPC etc.), actively involved with Agile organization like Scrum Alliance or scrum.org activities/initiatives
- Minimum of 8-10 years of IT experience with 2-3 years of agile delivery experience and 1+ years of Scrum Master/Agile PM experience
- Strong team management experience in past Waterfall/ Iterative projects combined with 1+ years of recent experience as Scrum Master in Agile projects
- Working experience with Agile tools like Jira, Calrity, LeanKit etc.
Desired Skills:
- Retail Background is an added advantage
Job Roles / Responsibilities:
- Must understand the underlying principles of Agile methodologies mainly Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and fundamentals of iterative development and means to achieve incremental payoff of technical debt.
- Successfully conduct daily scrum standups, facilitate Sprint planning meetings and coordinate Sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
- Knowledge of other agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Scrumban, Crystal, FDD, Daikibo etc. and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise. Also should have adequate knowledge on Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Well versed with basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
- Deep Understanding on the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
- Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
- Understand backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition
- Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
- Experience with software development in a multi-team environment
- Must be collaborative in driving decisions
Additional Information
GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS
DURATION: 12 Months