Scrum Master L1 @ Wipro

Rate :- 160K/M

exp:- 6+ years

Location :- Hyderabad Client Office

Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.

• Coach, mentor, and support Scrum teams to ensure effective adoption of Agile values, principles, and practices.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure the backlog is well-groomed, prioritised, and ready for upcoming sprints.
• Identify and remove impediments to team progress, escalating issues where necessary.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging teams to reflect and adapt processes for greater efficiency and quality.
• Monitor and report on key Agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown charts) to track team progress and inform stakeholders.
• Support the scaling of Agile practices across multiple teams and the broader organisation.
• Facilitate collaboration and communication between cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Champion Agile best practices and contribute to the organisation's Agile Centre of Excellence (CoE) if applicable.
• Provide guidance and support to less experienced Scrum Masters and Agile practitioners.

• Minimum of 6-8 years of experience as a Scrum Master, with at least 2 years in a Senior or Lead role.
• Proven experience managing multiple Scrum teams and delivering complex projects.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.).
• Excellent facilitation, conflict resolution, and coaching skills.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities, with a collaborative approach.
• Experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally).
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Leadership and people management
• Change management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Strategic thinking
• Adaptability and resilience

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.)