Project Manager - Agile Methodologies

Responsibilities :

• Own project development and ensure effective completion and delivery.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverable.
• Develop and maintain project plans.
• Manage scope changes.
• Ensure project documentation.
• Preparing quotes and effort estimations for internal and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with Product Owners and BAs to progress along the squad agenda.
• Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organizations.
• Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Managers to provide constructive feedback for continuous Agile improvements.
• Plan and conduct Agile meetings / ceremonies, Sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand up, test plan and test cases reviews, sprint demos, retrospectives etc.
• Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.
• Maintain team metrics and report project statuses on a regular basis to Product Owner, and to project stakeholders.
• Takes ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development / product teams on inter-dependencies or through scrum-of-scrum ceremony.
• Takes a lead role in overall release management, which includes end-to-end regression test coordination, ensure SDLC artifact adherence runbook coordination and deployment support.
• Coordinate with the team on deployment preparations and execution.
• Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.
• Ability to develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents; including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical paths.
• Ability to Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to improve Agile performance.
• Ability to review and manage backlog items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.
• Experience in creating a collaborative team environment and providing constructive feedback in order to drive Agile maturity.
• Ability to proactively manage change in project scope, identify potential issues, and devise contingency.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, and ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Strong familiarity with Agile project management software / tools
• Proficient with Jira, MS Office applications : Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

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