Senior Software Engineer-Scrum Master

6+ years in Scrum Master
Scrum Master - Roles & Responsibilities 1. Facilitation of Scrum Events Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. Ensure meetings are productive, time-boxed, and achieve their objectives. Help the team create clear and actionable Sprint goals. 2. Coaching & Mentoring Coach the development team, Product Owner, and stakeholders on Scrum principles, Agile mindset, and best practices. Guide the team toward becoming self-organizing and cross-functional. Provide ongoing coaching to improve team velocity, collaboration, and communication. 3. Removing Impediments Identify and remove blockers or impediments that hinder team progress. Escalate issues when needed and collaborate with other teams or departments to resolve them. Ensure a smooth workflow and minimize interruptions. 4. Supporting the Product OwnerAssist the Product Owner with backlog refinement, prioritization, and user story clarity. Ensure the product backlog is visible, transparent, and understood by the team. Help the PO communicate the vision and product goals to the team. 5. Promoting Agile Best Practices Ensure adherence to Scrum values Commitment, Focus, Openness, Courage, Respect. Implement Agile practices such as continuous improvement, transparency, and incremental delivery. Encourage use of Agile tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, etc.). 6. Protecting the Team Shield the team from external distractions and scope creep during the sprint. Ensure the team has a healthy, sustainable pace of work. Promote a positive, safe, and collaborative environment. 7. Process Improvement Identify opportunities to enhance processes and workflows. Drive continuous improvement initiatives through retrospectives and metrics. Track and analyze key Agile metrics like velocity, burndown charts, cycle time, etc. 8. Cross-team & Stakeholder Collaboration Foster communication between developers, testers, designers, and stakeholders. Coordinate with other Scrum Masters for dependencies across multiple teams. Promote transparency and alignment across the organization. 9. Reporting & Documentation Provide sprint reports, impediment logs, and progress updates to leadership. Maintain documentation related to Agile processes and team performance. 10. Culture Building Encourage a culture of trust, ownership, accountability, and continuous learning. Organize team-building activities and nurture team spirit

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Must-Have Skills . Process Improvement Identify opportunities to enhance processes and workflows. Drive continuous improvement initiatives through retrospectives and metrics. Track and analyze key Agile metrics like velocity, burndown charts, cycle time, etc. Cross-team & Stakeholder Collaboration Foster communication between developers, testers, designers, and stakeholders. Coordinate with other Scrum Masters for dependencies across multiple teams. Promote transparency and alignment across the organization. . Good-to-Have Skills . Supporting the Product OwnerAssist the Product Owner with backlog refinement, prioritization, and user story clarity. Ensure the product backlog is visible, transparent, and understood by the team. Help the PO communicate the vision and product goals to the team.