SCRUM MASTER L2(CONTRACT)

Wipro Technologies; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 2,200,000 - 3,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Wipro Limited in Hyderabad is seeking a trained Scrum Master to facilitate a Scrum team, remove impediments, and ensure the Scrum process is followed to achieve sprint goals.

You will protect the development team, foster collaboration across teams, and support the Product Owner in backlog and user story refinement, planning ceremonies, and defining acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• Mandatory: Agile-Scrum with 8–10 years experience.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.
• Experience with Scrum ceremonies and Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Scrum Ceremonies (Planning, Daily Standup, Grooming, Demo, Retrospection) and ensure correct adoption.
• Remove impediments and protect the team from external interference.
• Maintain and refine the Product Backlog with the Product Owner; define user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Assist the PO in backlog refinement, planning, and ensuring PO availability.
• Assist in estimating, backlog refinement, and sprint planning ceremonies.
• Promote engineering practices like ATDD, TDD, CI, CD, and refactoring.

Skills

Agile-Scrum

Job description

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ 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. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description

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 to ensure 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.

Do

• Is accountable for meeting Sprint objectives along with 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 enables clear communication amongst the team members
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum across teams and highlights 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, restrospection) and ensure correct adoption

• Ensure updating of all Scrum artifacts
• Ensure ALM tool (either client or Wipro) is updated on a daily basis
• Update key Scrum metrics into Wipro 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 multiskilling 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 restrospection 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: 8-10 Years.Reinvent your world. 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. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.

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