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. (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: mumbai, IN

Posted Date: 11/23/2024