We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Scrum Master to join our team. You will work in our Noida or Bangalore office with our Rails, mobile, and design teams to rapidly add new functionality, solve complex problems, and facilitate our development teams to ship quality code. We're looking for someone that thrives when faced with complex problems, and likes to think outside the box.
What you will do:
- Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self-organisation.Guiding the team on self-organising to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organisation and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organisation.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience with software/web development or related field.
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
- Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- Awareness and 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.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
Individual Skills
- Great communication, collaboration, teaming, self-management, and organisation skills
- Broad capabilities with encapsulation and extensibility using object-oriented concepts, design, patterns, and languages
- Analytical skills in problem solving and troubleshooting
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to quickly develop working relationships
- Personally motivated to excel in assignments, continuously self-educate, and mentor other team members
- Brings a high-energy, positive, and passionate outlook to the role with a sense of ownership