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Senior Scrum Master

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In-Office
Industrial Estate, Kharadi, Pune, Maharashtra
Senior level
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Industrial Estate, Kharadi, Pune, Maharashtra
Senior level
The Senior Scrum Master facilitates Agile processes, removes obstacles, enhances collaboration, and tracks team progress to ensure successful delivery of projects.
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Role: Senior Scrum Master

Professional Experience: 6-9 yrs. industrial experience out of which min. 3 yrs. as a Scrum master or agile coach.

Remit:

As a Senior Scrum Master, you will be responsible for supporting the development and execution of processes related to best practices of Agile methodology.

The Scrum Master will utilize communication, interpersonal, technical and organizational skills to remove obstacles, enhance collaboration, and ensure teams are able to deliver results.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and organize daily stand-up meetings, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other activities as needed

• Prevent or remove impediments and distractions that interfere with the ability of the development team to deliver on their goals

• Work with Product Owner and Business Analyst to groom and prioritize backlog for upcoming releases and iterations.

• Aid delivery team with determining suitable commitments for user stories, defects, and tasking

• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution

• Maintain process documentation

• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices

• Assist as needed with backlog maintenance

Job Qualifications Education

• BSc or equivalent combination of education and work experience

• 6-9yrs. industrial experience out of which min. 3 yrs. as a Scrum master or agile coach.

• Preferred First level Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM I) Experience 

• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least three years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

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

• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (e.g.: numerous Burn down techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)

• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.

• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.

• Effective verbal, written, and presentation skills.

• Experience using ADO/Jira to manage Scrum activities.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Top Skills

Ado
Agile
JIRA

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