We are hiring a Senior Associate to Manager Scrum Master

Experience: 10+

Mode:Bangalore

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 Days

- Scrum, AI - Experience in Microsoft Copilot, ADO (Azure DevOps), Good Communication.
- Experience with Azure DevOps tools.
- Intermediate to advanced understanding of basic software development methodologies and fundamentals (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Lean, Waterfall, etc.).
- Experience with developing, testing and deploying software utilizing a rapid, iterative delivery method.
- Agile Practices – expert understanding of Scrum practices and related agile tools and techniques. Understanding of Scaled Agile environments

Skillset:

- Leadership.
- Act as servant-leader to an agile team; removing impediments and ensuring team productivity.
- Empower teams to self-organize.
- Lead by example, demonstrating and upholding scrum principles.
- Protect the team from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensuring that the work is delivered as a team.
- Organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies, ensuring usefulness and adherence to scrum practice.
- Ensure team delivering stories such that they meet the definition of done.
- Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint.
- Coaching.
- Coach team members to uphold scrum principles.
- Cultivate an environment of trust, good faith, empowerment and creativity.
- Facilitate discussions and conflict resolution.
- Strong communication
- Collaboration.
- Planning.
- Lead Sprint Planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.
- Track team delivery on commitments through the use of burndown charts and other visual methods.
- Produce and post sprint plans and otherwise act as an information radiator.
- Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning.
- Work with the Product Owner to understand the business priorities and items to be refined in upcoming sprints.
- Ensure Product Owner is informed if changes occur that impact delivery to the business.
- Work with other Scrum Masters to ensure alignment of priorities and that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams’ delivery commitments.
- Actively participate in activities related to agile adoption across the organization.
- Drive weekly backlog refinement sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and ‘ready-for-work’ per the Product Owner priorities.
- Provide input to and participate in Release Planning.




- Coordinate release planning with other Scrum teams throughout the organization.
- Advanced interpersonal skills – able to establish solid working relationships and promote bi-directional communication within and across teams.
- Able to organize, moderate and demonstrate value-add principles and practices to the teams.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, project management, and individual and team building skills.
- Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
- Able to effectively facilitate discussions and suggest alternative approaches.
- Be transparent and provide visibility to Business and Technology.
- Develop and grow trust across the project team(s), Business and Technology.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

- Experience with developing and executing plans, meeting deadlines, coordinating timelines and efforts and operating under tight time constraints.
- Track team delivery on commitments through the use of burndown charts and other visual methods.
- Produce and post sprint plans and otherwise act as an information radiator.
- Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning.
- Work with the Product Owner to understand the business priorities and items to be refined in upcoming sprints.
- Ensure Product Owner is informed if changes occur that impact delivery to the business.
- Work with other Scrum Masters to ensure alignment of priorities and that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams’ delivery commitments.
- Actively participate in activities related to agile adoption across the organization.
- Drive weekly backlog refinement sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and ‘ready-for-work’ per the Product Owner priorities.
- Provide input to and participate in Release Planning.
- Coordinate release planning with other Scrum teams throughout the organization.

Qualifications:

- Intermediate to advanced understanding of basic software development methodologies and fundamentals (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Lean, Waterfall, etc.).




- Experience with developing, testing and deploying software utilizing a rapid, iterative delivery method.
- Understanding of all facets of the software development life cycle including and the iterative process that includes: planning, requirements management, development, quality assurance, change management and release management.
- Exposure or awareness of continuous integration and test-driven development practices, test automation and tools.
- Experience with Azure DevOps tools is a plus.
- Assertiveness – able to achieve goals of the team by actively driving to resolution of issues, holding team accountable to their actions and commitments
- Servant-Leader – exhibits the servant-as-leader behaviors of coaching, service to the team, and empowerment of the team to come up with solutions to their problems.
- Self-motivated - capable of managing multiple priorities with little instruction or oversight.
- Collaboration – exhibits ability to work with and through others to achieve shared goals.
- Social – takes an interest in and exhibits socials skills to enhance team bonding.
- Communication skills – maintains frequent and effective communication within and across teams.
- Flexibility – ability to adapt to frequent changes within the scrum framework and principles.
- Organization – ability to organize meetings, reviews, retrospectives and other scrum ceremonies.
- Facilitation – ability to facilitate meetings, drawing out key concerns and issues to ensure the principle of continuous improvement.
- Conflict Resolution and ability to remove impediments.
- Tracking – ability to track team progress and velocity using various methods including charts, graphs, etc.
- High-energy – shows enthusiasm and displays energy to take on daily issues and bring them to conclusion on behalf of the team.
- Agile Practices – expert understanding of Scrum practices and related agile tools and techniques. Understanding of Scaled Agile environments.
- Software Development – basic understanding of the fundamentals of software development and the software development lifecycle.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience supporting a team as a Scrum Master and working in a software development environment.
- Experience working in an iterative Development environment, utilizing Scrum practices.
- Experience with XP development practices preferred.
- Experience with Scrum, Lean and/or XP inspired practices required
- Experience with continuous delivery preferred.

📌 Project Manager Scrum Master (Bengaluru)
🏢 Teamware Solutions
📍 Bengaluru