Scrum Master - Pune - First Insight Software @ FirstInsight

About the Company :
First Insight is a software product development company based in Portland, Oregon (USA) with itsIndia development center in Pune. Our expertise and domain lies in healthcare and insurance.
We are a forward thinking, visionary company that provides high quality software solutions,services, support and training to nearly a thousand optometric and ophthalmic practices in the United States. We have carved a niche in the healthcare industry with our practice management and electronic health records software, support, e-commerce solutions and revenue cycle management services. To know more about us please visit us at @ www.first-insight.com.

Function Summary :

The scrum master will be assessing the scrum maturity of the team and organisation and guiding the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organisation. He/She will be coaching and mentoring team members on agile standards and best practices. He/She will be supporting the agile transformation together with an agile working group.
Essential Job Functions :
Ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles and practices for the delivery of projects and products. Coaching the team on agile scrum values, standards and practices.
Ensuring that the team is adhering to the scrum methodology and fostering best practices within the team.
Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove       impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediments. Conducting scrum meetings to handle impediments on time. Guiding the team on self organising to fill in the intentional gaps left in the agile/scrum frameworks.
Facilitating and driving the communication between business and team and connecting for planning scrum ceremonies : daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review & sprint retrospective, product backlog refinement, internal and external communication.
Deliverables preparation and execution, & management..
Creation of relevant metrics to help the stakeholders and team monitor performance using matrices like Burn down, Burn up charts, Velocity etc.
Participating in functional and user acceptance testing.
Supporting and educating the product owner on refining and maintaining the product backlog & story estimation. Helping the product owner in achieving business goals & aligning the team. Working with product owner in sprint planning, retrospective
meetings, assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and information, identification of timelines, dashboards, metrics, and risk management.
Contributing towards forecasting the opportunities and developing strategy for seamless project delivery. Ensuring quality, roadmaps, release plans, project plans are on track that
meet business needs.
Configuring and maintaining an agile project management tool (ScrumDesk, JIRA, etc.).
Shielding the team from external interferences.
Supporting the team to improve their technical work by reviewing results and establish lessons learnt as well as track improvements.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :
Knowledge of various well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the scrum approach (example: numerous burn down/up techniques, various retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP, DevOps, SAFe, LeSS, etc.
Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
Experience of risk management and mitigation to ensure successful project execution.
Agile Project & Configuration Management Tool: VSTS, Team foundation Server (TFS), SharePoint, JIRA.
Strong presentation skills (Powerpoint/Google docs).
Project management, planning, estimation, reporting and consulting.
Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
Exposure to lead groups of people, mentoring juniors, query resolution, mentoring and supporting team members.
Experience of resource pooling, allocation and interviewing, and on-boarding etc.
Excellent Interpersonal skills and the ability to create collaborative working relationships, manage conflicts. Experience in facilitating work groups & strong co-ordination skills.

Experience and Education :

BE/MCA/MSc. (Comp. Science) with at least 8 years' of experience out of which at least 4 years should be in a Scrum Master role.
Experience in a software development team that was diligently applying scrum principles, practices, and theory.