Scrum Master

**About Us**

“Quess IT Staffing is India’s largest IT staffing company with over 20 years of experience in staffing IT professionals in 300+ companies across levels and skillsets. Our 10,000+ associates deployed in 80+ cities and towns are proficient in over 500 technological skills. Our associates help enable cutting edge solutions some of the biggest names across industried. Quess IT Staffing is a division of Quess Corp Limited, India’s leading business services provider and largest domestic private sector employer. Quess Corp Limited is - ‘A Great Place to Work’ certified - a testament to our excellent culture, people, and processes.”

**About Company**

**Roles and Responsibility**

Job title: Scrum Master

Experience: 3-8 Years

Notice period: Immediate to 15 days

Location: Hyderabad

JD:

- Guiding your teams on how to use Agile/Scrum & SAFe practices and values to meet deliverables.
- Aligning your teams with the Solution Train and established common processes used by your local team and the off-shore teams, coordinating dependencies and other work items with other teams within the wider organization.
- Communicating program or project goals, status, requirements and deliverables to all team members, stakeholders, and sponsors.
- Coaching and developing team members as necessary to assure common understanding of the Scaled Agile, Software Development process and project goals.
- Providing feedback and suggestions for the continuous improvement of the common and local team processes.
- Establishing milestones and monitoring adherence to the Product Increment / Cadence commitments.
- Fostering communication and productive relationships with Product Managers, Product Owners, team members and other stakeholders.
- Maintaining and sharing an up-to-date awareness of industry trends, best practices and exploring those that would benefit our business.
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Supporting and educating the Product Manager, Product Owner and other stakeholders, especially with respect to reviewing and maintaining the product backlog.
- Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example

Basic Qualifications
- Knowledge and/or experience with Scaled Agile development.
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing.
- 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 (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills

Preferred Qualifications
- First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I).
- Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, etc
- Experience of facilitating a Scrum of Scrums.
- Experience of working with teams located at multiple geographic locations.
- Working experience of Product based organization projects.
- Qualified SA (SAFe Agilest) or good knowledge of Scaled Agile approaches such as SAFe, LeSS etc.
- Experience using Jira to manage development/bug tasks.