SCRUM MASTER L1

Wipro; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wipro Limited in Bengaluru, Karnataka, is seeking a trained Scrum Master to facilitate a Scrum team, remove impediments, and protect the team to achieve sprint goals. You will ensure Scrum is followed, help the team be self-managed, and foster cross-team collaboration.

Key responsibilities include ensuring sprint commitments, backlog refinement with the PO, facilitating ceremonies, and maintaining Scrum artifacts.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Agile-Scrum framework and ceremonies.
• 5–8 years of experience in Scrum Master role.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and ensure adherence to process.
• Protect the team from impediments and manage risk.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to maintain a healthy backlog.
• Coach the team on agile practices, TDD/CI where applicable.
• Track and report sprint metrics and progress to stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement through retrospectives.

Skills

Agile-Scrum

Experience 5-8 Years

Job description

SCRUM MASTER L1

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address our customers’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever‑changing world.

Role Purpose

As a trained Scrum Master, you are responsible for facilitating a Scrum team and are accountable for removing impediments of the team to achieve the sprint goals/deliverables. You are responsible for ensuring that the Scrum process is used as intended. A key part of your role is to protect the development team, allow the teams to be self managed, foster collaboration across teams and keep them focused on the tasks at hand.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for meeting Sprint objectives along with the scrum team.
• Ensure meeting of sprint commitment.
• Own and help resolve impediments of the team.
• Help PO adopt Scrum Process properly and ensure PO availability.
• Support the PO in maintaining the Product Backlog, defining User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Facilitate estimation, backlog refinement and all planning ceremonies.
• Ensure that DOR, DOD, Acceptance criteria is available and adhered to.
• Ensure MoSCoW adherence of Sprint Backlog at the Sprint level.
• Accountable for the correct implementation of the Agile Process.
• Protect the team from external interference.
• Facilitate technical assistance to the team and enable clear communication amongst the team members.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum across teams and highlight impediments.
• Provide feedback on the team members performance to the Agile Line manager and Agile Program Leader.
• Facilitate all the Scrum Ceremonies (Planning, Daily Standup, Grooming, Demo, retrospection)
• Ensure updating of all Scrum artifacts.
• Update all key Scrum metrics in the internal tool on a Sprint-by-Sprint basis.
• Analyse key Scrum metrics and take corrective actions.
• Create competency improvement and cross-skilling plan for the team (by the start of the project). Review monthly and ensure improvement in competency score.
• Ensure multi-skilling for at least 50% of the team.
• Help team attain stable velocity within 6-8 sprints (allowing for 10% variation either way).
• Train team on the proper adoption of Agile processes (Scrum / XP / Kanban).
• Help in adoption of engineering practices like ATDD, TDD, CI, CD, Refactoring.
• Record and own the retrospection actions.
• Participate in community of practice initiatives.
• Provide inputs to the Line manager for internal quality forums (QIC / APR / QBR / MBR etc.).

Mandatory Skills

• Agile-Scrum
• Experience: 5-8 Years

We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention.

We are committed to creating an accessible, supportive, and inclusive workplace. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to all applicants including persons with disabilities, throughout the recruitment and selection process. Accommodations must be communicated in advance of the application, where possible, and will be reviewed on an individual basis. Wipro provides equal opportunities to all and values diversity.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, caste, creed, religion, gender, marital status, age, ethnic and national origin, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, political orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.