Scrum Master

Job Description

Scrum Master (5-9 Years Experience)

Summary

The purpose of this position is to nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring. Facilitates Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Stakeholder Demos and Sprint Retrospectives. Also, participates in Release Planning with Product & Portfolio teams. Conducts team assessments & improvise team’s velocity/ throughput. Overall 14+ years of IT experience, where last 5-9 years working as an Agile Manager/ Scrum Master.

Principal Responsibilities And Essential Duties

Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers
Expertise knowledge & experience on JIRA tool
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
Managing one or two full sized scrum/ Kanban teams
Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Good working knowledge and experience in agile engineering practices BDD, TDD, ATDD, Continuous integration
Complete all responsibilities as outlined on annual Performance Plan.
Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned.
Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

B.S. in Computer Science, Business, Project Management, or similar degree or equivalent.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong organizational skills and adaptive capacity for rapidly changing priorities and workloads
Ability to work well independently and maintain focus in a highly dynamic work environment.
Comfort in working with team members that are remote and located in the US, India or other geographies
Ability to work within a matrix organization
10+ years in Software development with 5-9 years in Agile Scrum & Kanban experience as Agile Manager/ Scrum Master.
Exposure to Agile / TDD / BDD based development
Exposure to Continuous Integration, deployment & static code analysis
Organizational skills with ability to be flexible and work with minimal direction
Ability to work well independently and in a team environment
Troubleshoot bottlenecks and propose changes to fix them

Qualifications

Graduation

Range Of Year Experience-Min Year

5

Range Of Year Experience-Max Year

9

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