Senior Scrum Master

What You'll do :-

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives) to ensure efficient team workflow.
  
• Support the team in managing product features and backlogs, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
  
• Write and maintain user stories, applying Gherkin syntax to define clear acceptance criteria.
  
• Utilize prior QA or development experience to actively engage and support the teams product quality and solution delivery.
  
• Ensure seamless collaboration between product, QA, and development teams to meet Sprint, Program Increment (PI), and release objectives.
  
• Empower the team by removing impediments, encouraging communication, and fostering a solution-oriented mindset.
  
• Guide the team in Agile best practices and principles, ensuring consistent and timely delivery.
  
• Handle conflict resolution within the team, ensuring constructive resolution of disagreements and maintaining a positive team environment.
  
• Build strong relationships with the development team and stakeholders, managing expectations, and providing regular progress updates.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Product Owner.
  
• Hands-on experience in QA or development, with a solid understanding of testing or coding practices.
  
• Experience in writing user stories and creating Gherkin-based acceptance criteria.
  
• Familiarity with behaviour-driven development (BDD) and test-driven development (TDD) practices.
  
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) and the ability to coach teams on Agile principles.
  
• Experience in conflict management to effectively resolve team issues and maintain productivity.
  
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to lead teams and manage stakeholder relationships.
  
• Experience in managing product backlogs and prioritizing features with business objectives in mind.
  
• Certification in Scrum (CSM, PSM, SAFe) or Product Management is a plus.
  
• Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, and QA tools such as ALM or similar.
  
• Understanding of RESTful web services and Postman is a plus.