Job title: Scrum Master
Experience:
3-8 Years
Notice period:
Immediate to 15 days
Location: Hyderabad
JD:
· Guiding your teams on how to use
Agile/Scrum & SAFe practices and values to meet deliverables.
· Aligning your teams with the
Solution Train and established common processes used by your local team and the
off-shore teams, coordinating dependencies and other work items with other
teams within the wider organization.
· Maintaining continuous alignment of
program or project scope with strategic business goals and applying your skills
in leadership, communication, influence, negotiation, cross-cultural awareness,
and conflict resolution.
· Communicating program or project
goals, status, requirements and deliverables to all team members, stakeholders,
and sponsors.
· Coaching and developing team members
as necessary to assure common understanding of the Scaled Agile, Software
Development process and project goals.
· Providing feedback and suggestions
for the continuous improvement of the common and local team processes.
· Establishing milestones and
monitoring adherence to the Product Increment / Cadence commitments.
· Fostering communication and
productive relationships with Product Managers, Product Owners, team members
and other stakeholders.
· Maintaining and sharing an
up-to-date awareness of industry trends, best practices and exploring those that
would benefit our business.
· Assisting with internal and external
communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
· Supporting and educating the Product
Manager, Product Owner and other stakeholders, especially with respect to
reviewing and maintaining the product backlog.
· Providing support to the team using
a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example
Basic
Qualifications
· Experience playing the Scrum Master
role for at least 2 years for a software development team that was diligently
applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory and overall 7-8 years of
industry experience.
· Knowledge and/or experience with
Scaled Agile development.
· Knowledge and/or experience with
widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous
Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing.
· Good skills and knowledge of servant
leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual
improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
· Knowledge of numerous well
documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in
the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective
formats, handling bugs, etc)
· Excellent communication and
mentoring skills
Preferred
Qualifications
· First level Scrum Master
certification (CSM, PSM I).
· Second level Scrum Master
certification (CSP, PSM II)
· Knowledge of other Agile approaches:
XP, Kanban, etc
· Experience of facilitating a Scrum
of Scrums.
· Experience of working with teams
located at multiple geographic locations.
· Working experience of Product based
organization projects.
· Qualified SA (SAFe Agilest) or good
knowledge of Scaled Agile approaches such as SAFe, LeSS etc.
· Experience using Jira to manage
development/bug tasks.
· Candidates must possess a good
degree in a technical subject.