Scrum Master (Development Background)
Full-time
Company Description
NEC Software Solutions (India) Private Limited! is based in Mumbai (Worli & Airoli) and Bangalore with an employee strength of 1300 . It is one of the foremost providers of end-to-end IT services across various sectors. We work with diverse industry verticals which include publishing, media, financial services, retail, healthcare and technology companies around the world. Our customers range from two-person startups to $bn listed companies.We have more than 30 years of experience in providing end-to-end IT services across the globe and have earned a reputation for delighting our customers by consistently surpassing expectations and helping them deliver robust, market-ready software products that meet the highest standards of engineering and user experience. Supported by more than 1300 exceptionally talented manpower, we are a hub for offshore support and technology services.
Experience level:
12 years
Position:
Scrum Master
Reporting Structure:
Project Manager, Mumbai
Requisites
Education:
NA
Relevant Experience (years):
7 years of IT experience, with a minimum of 3 years of scrum master experience on projects executed using Agile Scrum methodology.
Industry / Technology background:
Lead with Scrum Master experience.
Location:
Mumbai
Working Hours:
Pre-employment checks:
Required Role Summary
The Scrum Master will be a facilitative team member responsible for ensuring the Scrum team adheres to the defined processes and removes blocking issues. He should act as a coach for the team, helping them to achieve the best results possible. As the teams process owner, ensure that the development processes are optimized and deliver consistent and robust results. The Scrum Master is expected to do anything possible to help the team perform at their highest level, by removing any impediments and facilitating meetings. Where impediments cannot be removed quickly, then they should escalate the matter appropriately to ensure rapid resolution.
Essential
Qualification Criteria/Work Experience
- Minimum 7 years industry experience with at least 3 years of experience working as Scrum Master on projects executed using Agile Scrum / Kanban / Scrumban methodologies.
- Minimum coding experience of 4 years.
- Should have handled a scrum team of at least 6-7 team members or more.
- A strong team player with the ability to understand team issues and to encourage and enforce strong working ethics within the team.
- The ability to lead and motivate the team to fully adopt Scrum processes.
- The ability to build strong and effective working relationships with all key contributors to the project the development team (including QA), the PO and/or BA, and the management stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills (verbal, written) working with the team to ensure that everyone is aware of progress and key issues.
- Ability to build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving.
- Is a self-starter with self-organizing skills along with great attention to detail and follow through and who is resourceful and adept at managing through chaos to reach a goal.
- Must have experience of handling a geographically distributed team and onshore offshore model.
- Must have basic knowledge of GitHub (branches, mergers).
- Good to have basic co-pilot usage.
- Familiarity with coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance processes.
- Ability to speak the language of developers and understand technical constraints.
Desirable
- Hands-on using Jira or similar Agile tools.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
- Scaled Agile preferred.
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing Understanding of Gherkin and Cucumber an advantage. Knowledge of Estimation (Planning Poker, Effort based). Prior role in any lead capacity Tech Lead / Team Lead.
Overall Project/Task description
The Scrum Masters roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Setting up, owning, and upholding the process of Scrum and ensuring that it is correctly applied at all times.
- Shielding the team from external interferences and removing identified impediments to enable the team to progress promptly and effectively, escalating to management and stakeholders in the event that impediments cannot be resolved and are likely to impact sprint progress.
- Arranging and facilitating all key Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, showcases, and retrospectives, ensuring that agreed processes are followed and that the output from the ceremonies is accurately recorded and acted upon.
- Ensuring that the internal structure and operation of the sprint is optimized at all times, working closely with the offshore team to maximize effectiveness.
- Focusing the Scrum team into a culture of continuous improvements and driving to increase the teams velocity.
- Collating dependencies from the team, raising them on Scrum of Scrums, tracking the progress on it, pro-actively identifying potential impediments created by it and helping the team to resolve or manage them.
- Escalating any consistent non-compliance of the processes to Development/Project Managers.
Qualifications
Graduate
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