Junior Scrum Master - T4

Essential Duties: 

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers. 

• Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self-organization. 

• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks. 

• 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. 

• Making sure team is focused on the sprint goals and PI objectives and support the team in achieving it 

• 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. 

• Proficient in Agile Metrices and able to coach team in gauging the deliveries. 

Required Skills/Experience: 

• Total 6-8 years of IT industry experience 

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least two year 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 various techniques of doing Scrum events. 

• Able to perform as an individual contributor. 

• Excellent communication and mentoring skills. 

• Experienced in collaboration and coordination with multiple agile teams  

• Any Agile Toolset expertise 

Preferred Skills/Experience: 

• Experience is playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory. (Adjust based on your necessity) 

• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc. 

• Certified Scrum Master Certification 

• 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. 

• Experience working in Jira