Scrum Master
- Cotiviti
- 10 - 15 years
- Hyderabad
- 4 months ago
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Job Description
PRINCIPLE PURPOSE OF JOB
The purpose of this position is to Nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring. Facilitates Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Stakeholder Demos and Sprint Retrospectives. Also, participates in Release Planning with Product & Portfolio teams. Conducts team assessments & improvise teams velocity/ throughput. Overall 12+ years of IT experience, where last 5 years working as Agile Manager/ Scrum Master and certified SAFe Agilist.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Managing more than one scrum/ Kanban teams
- Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers
- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
- Guiding the team to be self-organized and cross functional.
- Guiding and facilitating teams to drive through release on demand implementing DevOps/CI/CD practices.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- 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 of 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 with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
- Expertise knowledge & experience JIRA and JIRA align tools
- Experience in measuring various Sprint/Agile metrics and work towards improvement sprint over sprint.
- Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
- Good working knowledge and experience in agile engineering practices BDD, TDD, ATDD, Continuous integration
- Certified CSM or PSM
- Recommended SAFe Agilist (SA)
KEY CONSTITUENTS
- Product Owner
- Business Analyst
- Delivery Team
- Technical working group
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ATTRIBUTES AND BEHAVIOR
- Develops and maintains positive working relationships with others
- Shares ideas and information
- Assists colleagues unprompted
- Takes pride in the achievement of team objectives
- Has credibility with peers and senior managers
- Self-motivated driven to achieve results
- Works with a sense of urgency
- High customer service ethic is passionate about meeting customer expectations and improving service levels
- Keeps pace with change acquires knowledge/skills as the business evolves
- Handles confidential information with sensitivity
- Exhibits behaviors consistent with Cotiviti Values
- Customer-driven
- Collaborative
- Open
- Accountable
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
- Masters or bachelors in engineering in IT/ Electronics / Communication / Computer Science / Information Systems.
- 10 + years in IT development with 5 years in Agile Scrum & Kanban experience as Scrum Master.
- Exposure to Agile / TDD / BDD based development
- Exposure to Continues Integration, deployment & static code analysis Jenkins, Sonar
- Organizational skills with ability to be flexible and work with minimal direction
- Ability to work well independently and in a team environment
- Troubleshoot bottlenecks and propose changes to fix them
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and adaptive capacity for rapidly changing priorities and workloads
- Ability to work well independently and maintain focus in a highly dynamic work environment.
- Comfort in working with team members that are remote and located in the US, India or other geographies
- Ability to work within a matrix organization
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and guiding and facilitating discussions to enable release on demand.
Job Classification
Industry: Software ProductFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Software Development - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: CotivitiLocation(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills: Sprint Planning Backlog Refinement Safe Sprint Review agile Dashboards Jira Retrospective
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