Virtusa

Scrum Master

Posted On

Nov. 1, 2024

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Full Time

Job Type

Experienced

Apply By

Dec. 31, 2024

Job Description

Key Accountabilities
Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood, and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
Solid exposure to the product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment.
Works with the Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decisionmaking and support organizational project or product teams.
Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Upskills team members and facilitates end-of-sprint retros contributes to the team's understanding of their in-sprint performance.
Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments.
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 on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.

Required Skills:
Overall, 8+ years of experience
Hands-on experience as Scrum Master for at least 5+ years
Experience in Project Management Tools
CSM/equivalent certification
Excellent Coaching skills
Bachelors in engineering (preferably Computer Science) or equivalent
Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques. Planning and problem-solving with product management and delivery teams
Experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques to enhance the Scrum approach (e.g., progress visualization techniques, retrospective formats, approaches for handling bugs, etc.). Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus):
Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Excellent coaching and mentoring skills

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