Scrum Master - Agile (5-10 Yrs) Chennai (Others)

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS : - Facilitate Scrum events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams. Facilitating multi-team events like Big Room Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and story mapping - Assist Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs - Serve as teams- or programs- information radiator, representing the team or program to senior management, stakeholders and sponsors - Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level - Facilitate estimation and planning at the team or program level. Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases - Coach developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles - Help teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them - Shield the team from outside distractions, context switching and interference - Track and remove impediments - Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity - Build a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving Skills And Experience : - 3-5 years- experience as a Scrum Master for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory - Prior knowledge or experience building and testing software or implementing DevOps(CI/CD Pipelines) - Knowledge of other approaches in the Agile space: Kanban, Lean, etc.
-Experience with Jira, Bitbucket or GIT - Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.
-Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency - 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.) - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communication anywhere from the team level to C-level executives. Preferred Qualifications : - Leadership role in a large-scale Agile transformation - Experience in Scrum Master and scaled Agile or transformation roles in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.) - Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum and Agile, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
-Active participant in the Agile community

Required Skills : English