About the Company :
- Extramarks is a new age education technology company that focuses on Pre-school, K-12 and Test Prep segments and delivers 360-degree digital learning solutions to schools and students in all subjects.
- Currently, Extramarks India caters to more than 9 million students in-school and 10+ million after school students across 9000 schools and 65,000 classroom PAN India.
- More than 3500+ employees (300+ academicians) across leadership, marketing, tech, and sales team at Extramarks are dedicated to designing the best learning solutions for the students and make education easy and accessible.
- Besides India, Extramarks has a global presence in South Africa, Middle East & Indonesia.
Roles & Responsibilities :
- Accountable for the end-to-end planning and execution of one or more projects and/or Agile teams.
- Lead and negotiate scope, schedule, budget, risks, deployments and communications for projects and initiatives.
- Coach multiple teams through the software development life cycle using Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices and work cross-functionally throughout the company to ensure projects are developed and deployed with quality and timely delivery into our production systems.
- Ask thoughtful questions to help our customers, product owners, and product managers to maximize ROI and meet company objectives.
- Understand product strategy and benefits of key deliverables in area of responsibility.
- Work with product owner to promote and contribute to the improvement of the product backlog.
- Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-up meetings, reviews/demos, retrospectives, and other scrum ceremonies.
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
- Coach team in estimation techniques.
- Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences.
- Track and remove impediments for the team.
- Develop metrics and reports using Jira to help the team understand its health and progress and to set goals.
- Lead and coach team in its Agile adoption.
- Coach team members to understand Scrum and the Agile Principles.
- Influence change that increases team performance at a sustainable pace.
- Lead Agile release planning.
Required Skills :
- CSM Certified.
- 6-8 years of working experience in Agile methodologies.
- In-depth experience facilitating agile ceremonies and mentoring teams/individuals on agile values, design thinking, customer value, product management, etc.
- Strong experience on driving Agile transformations from design to implementation.
- Working knowledge and experience with several Agile methodologies like SCRUM, XP, Kanban, SAFe and fluid.
- Working knowledge of best practices in user-centered design like user research, hypothesis-driven development, prototyping, usability testing.
- Strong working knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test-driven development, continuous integration, DevOps.
Experience : 6-8 years
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