Scrum Master, Software Engineering II

The Scrum Master is the keeper of the Scrum Process. They work with the teams to help increase their productivity. They are responsible for teaching and upholding the process throughout the lifecycle and helping to remove barriers from the teams and organization. The Scrum Master works with the development team(s), with the emphasis on helping the teams and organization meet its delivery objectives in the most productive manner possible. The Scrum Master works to improve the team(s), the organization, and the process.

Education and Experience

• Have a minimum of 5 years working in software development.
• Have a minimum of 1 year experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment
• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• BE/BTech/MCA

Skills/Knowledge and experience

• Demonstrate a solid understanding of the agile methodology and processes
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of Agile Estimation and be able to guide a team through a relative story pointing exercise
• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments
• Building a trusting and safe environment where issues be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Have knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing.
• Possess the ability to intelligently explain agreed to processes, methodologies and techniques being utilized by the organization to a variety of audiences (team members, PO, management, stakeholders) at the appropriate level
• 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.)
• Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus)
• Nice to have Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP (Extreme Programming), Kanban, FDD (Feature-Driven Development) etc.
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
• Experience applying a wide variety of 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.)