Scrum master (development background)

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.

Job Description

• Experience level- 12+ years
• JD – Scrum Master 
•  Reporting Structure Project Manager, Mumbai
• Requisites Education: NA

 Relevant Experience (years): 7+ years of IT experience, with minimum 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 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 team’s process owner, ensure that the development processes are optimized and deliver consistent and robust results.
• The Scrum Master is expected 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.

Qualification Criteria/Work Experience

Essential:

• 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 4yrs.
• 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 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 of 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 Master’s 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 and 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 optimised at all times, working closely with the offshore team to maximise effectiveness.
•  Focusing the Scrum team into a culture of continuous improvements and driving to increase the team’s velocity.
• Collate dependencies from the team, raise them on Scrum of Scrums, track the progress on it, pro-actively identify potential impediments created by it and help the team to resolve or manage them.
•  Escalate any consistent non-compliance of the processes to Development/Project Managers.

Qualifications

Graduate