Scrum Master

A & B Business Solutions is seeking a Scrum Master with **3 - 8 years**’ experience who understands how the Scrum framework can enable agility within an organization and teams, a Scrum Master who is passionate about Agile, possesses an Agile mindset and is interested in helping to transform an organization and its IT Service areas to a new workstyle in partnership with the Product with the intent to deliver true value quicker.

**Scrum Master, as a Servant-leader will**:

- Effectively facilitate and lead Agile events/ceremonies with the goal of delivering business value and fostering continuous improvement amongst the team and the organization.
- Identify, track and help to remove impediments that interfere with team's ability to deliver on the sprint goal.
- Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to predictably deliver working software and the desired capabilities.
- Empower teams and facilitate creativity while guarding WIP, quality and monitoring progress.
- Build a safe and trusting team environment where failure and problems can happen without fear of blame, retribution, or judgement but, with an emphasis on problem solving and learning from failure

**Responsibilities**:
Enforce the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops.
Direct and assist the team in updating the tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
Develop, gather and publish Agile/DevOps metrics on areas that affect value-driven delivery, indicate potential problems and measure a Team’s success.
Provide performance feedback to management and team members.

**Assist and support the Product Owner and Team**:

- Ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints

.Continually coach and work with the team with a focus of improving the business value delivered
- Aid in managing the Backlogs and Release Planning
- Utilize metrics for initiating continuous improvement and the development of high performant teams
- Understanding and able to articulate strategic and product plan goals and progress towards them
- Disseminate relevant information to the team, stakeholders, leadership and the Programs as needed

Support the organization's Agile journey with a focus on promoting, educating, and evangelizing the Agile mindset:

- Guide the organization on Agile, its values and benefits and how best to use Agile/Scrum practices
- Work with one or more scrum teams to continually coach/educate and promote Agile practices
- Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration amongst scrum team(s), Product Owner(s), practice areas and potentially Project Managers on the efficient delivery of product increments through self-organized teams

**Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications**

Demonstrated advanced experience with Scrum practices: backlog grooming, daily standups, sprint review, retrospectives, sprint planning.
Knowledge of other Agile methodologies (XP, Kanban, Lean) and familiarity with Scaled Agile (SAFe).
Extensive knowledge and experience with agile team tools such as JIRA, Trello, or Azure DevOps
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, or related fields
- Industry Certification: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- Ability to mentor, collaborate and exercise influence without authority
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching skills
- Good skills in servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, continual improvement practices
- Participation, even leadership in Agile Communities of Practice (CoP) is desired
- Senior level equivalent expertise in any technical discipline is desired
- Experience within a multi-team organization is desired

**Job Types**: Full-time, Regular / Permanent

Pay: ₹859,064.00 - ₹1,588,713.00 per year

Schedule:

- Morning shift

**Experience**:

- Scrum: 5 years (preferred)