Description
The client seeks a JAVA/ Cold Fusion developer-ScrumMaster with strong business acumen located in Herndon, VA
Note: Resource must be available to work onsite in Herndon VA. No remote work.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years advanced JAVA programming skills and knowledge with JSF 1.2 and 2.0, Java Servlet, Javabean, EJB, OO Design, HTML
- 3+ years programming in Cold Fusion
- Experience with WebSphere application suite (WAS) 8.x
- Familiarity with iOS mobile application development, HTML, and JDK
- Willingness/desire to learn ScrumMaster skill set with the intent to eventually act as ScrumMaster for this project
- Five years of experience as the member of an agile scrum development team
- Ability to perform the complete system life cycle using the Agile Scrum Methodology phases from project initiation, analysis and requirements, design, coding, testing and implementation
- Ability to create User Stories and define Acceptance Criteria as to when code is “Ready”
Preferred Skills:
- At least one project of medium complexity as the ScrumMaster leading an agile scrum development team
- Schedule/facilitate sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each 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 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
- Add or remove stories based on burn-down of the current sprint
- Participate in Release retrospective and cross team retrospectives
- Ability to generate test cases and have knowledge of producing a Requirement Traceability Matrix document
- Ability to adhere to client development standards and SOX compliance
- Ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical
- Schedule and facilitate daily scrum sessions
- Proven ability to develop and maintain system documentation
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
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