Scrum Master

Overview

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 team’s 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© 2021 Cotiviti, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY 2ATTRIBUTES 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 Valueso Customer-driveno Collaborativeo Openo AccountableRELEVANT EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS• Masters or bachelor’s 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 themSKILLS & 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.