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Certified Scrum Master
Required Skills:

Five plus years of experience as the member of an Agile scrum development team.
Certified as a ScrumMaster from an accredited institution.
At least one project of medium complexity as the ScrumMaster leading an Agile scrum development team.
Able to perform the complete system life cycle using the Agile Scrum Methodology phases from project initiation, analysis and requirements, design, coding, testing and implementation.
Able to create User Stories and define Acceptance Criteria as to when code is ready.
Schedule/facilitate sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each sprint.
Ability to break down project schedule/sprint schedule into measurable activities that do not exceed five days in length.
Communicate stories for the upcoming sprint to the backlog owner and stakeholders
Support the Backlog Owner and Portfolio Manager in updating weekly critical path analysis charts.
Schedule and facilitate daily scrum sessions
Add or remove stories based on burn-down of the current sprint.
Ability to determine the workload of each member during each sprint so that maximum features are developed as early as possible.
Facilitate retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint/project ensure highest priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed out.
Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state, including time to be burned and status
Participate in Release retrospective and cross team retrospectives.

Preferred Skills:
Able to generate test cases and have knowledge of producing a Requirement Traceability Matrix document.
Able to adhere to client development standards and SOX compliance.
Ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical.
Proven ability to develop and maintain system documentation.
Ability to work independently with minimal direction.

Education: Bachelors degree or equivalent.