Scrum Master

This is purely for contractual position for 6 months.

Base location is Pune and hybrid mode of work(2-3 days work from office)

Area of Responsibility

•            Scrum Master for a 2-3 scrum teams including Functional and Technical consultant, Support Analyst, Developers.

•            Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.

•            Guiding the team on how to get the most of our self-organization.

•            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 by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

•            Building 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.

•            Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

•            Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

•            Facilitating ceremonies for the team like Spring Planning, Retrospective, Reviews, Stand up etc.

•            Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

•            Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.

•            Mentors, coaches and develops individual team members and the team as a whole.

•            Work closely with Area Product owner, Product owner, department head, customer program management.

•            Tracks and communicates the overall progress of the scrum teams delivery and team KPIs (using Burn-downs, burn-ups, Cumulative Flow, Velocity etc.).

•            Conduct internal training on Agile practices for existing and new team members.

Knowledge / Experience

•            Must have experience of working as a Scrum Master/Agile PM for at least 10+ years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

•            Passion and deep understanding of Agile and Scrum frameworks.

•            Working experience with Agile approaches SAFe® / LeSS® is required.

•            Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

•            Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories,  Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.

•            Awareness of PLM Applications e.g. 3D Experience, Teamcenter etc. for Automotive Domain.

•            Must have working knowledge of DevOps principles and practices -  CI/CD/Test Automation /DevOps tools.

•            Should have great team leadership, inter-personal communication, and negotiation/influencing skills to guide, mentor and motivate agile teams.

•            The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: various Burndown technologies, many Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).

•            Knowledge of other Agile approaches:, XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.

•            Excellent communication and mentoring skills.