NEC Software Solutions (India)
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Mumbai | India
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NEC Software Solutions (India) We have more than 30 years of experience in providing end to end IT services across the globe and have earned a reputation for delighting our customers by consistently surpassing expectations and helping them deliver robust, market-ready software products that meet the highest standards of engineering and user experience. Supported by more than 1300 exceptionally talented manpower, we are a hub for offshore support and technology services.
We work with diverse industry verticals which include publishing, media, financial services, retail, healthcare and technology companies around the world. Our customers range from two-person startups to $bn listed companies.
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About NEC Corporation NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is recognised as a 'Top 50 Innovative Company' globally and the NEC Group globally provides 'Solutions for Society' that promote the safety, security, fairness and equality of society. Their main goal is to help create a safer society with their innovations in technologies.
NEC Corporation has established itself as a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies while promoting the brand statement of 'Orchestrating a brighter world.' NEC enables businesses and communities to adapt to rapid changes taking place in both society and the market as it provides for the social values of safety, security, fairness and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential.
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Job Description 7+ years of IT experience, with minimum 3-4 years of scrum master experience on projects executed using Agile Scrum methodology.
Essential: - Minimum 7 years industry experience with at least 3-4 years of experience working as Scrum Master on projects executed using Agile Scrum / Kanban / Scrumban methodologies.
- Should have handled a scrum team of at least 10 team members or more.
- A strong team player with the ability to understand team issues and to encourage and enforce strong working ethics within the team.
- The ability to lead and motivate the team to fully adopt Scrum processes
- The ability to build strong and effective working relationships with all key contributors to the project – the development team (including QA), the PO and/or BA and the management stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills (verbal, written) – working with team to ensure that everyone is aware of progress and key issues.
- Ability to build 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.
- Be supportive and pro-active – ensure that all impediments to progress are dealt with quickly and effectively.
- Assess 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.
- Is a self-starter with great attention to detail and follow through and who is resourceful and adept at managing through chaos to reach a goal
- Strongly process driven with a desire to continuously improve development processes to increase team effectiveness and contribution.
- Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
- Must have experience of handling a geographically distributed team and onshore offshore model
Role Summary The ScrumMaster will be facilitative team member responsible for ensuring the Scrum team adheres to the defined processes and removes blocking issues. He should act as a coach for the team, helping them to achieve the best results possible. As the team's process owner, ensure that the development processes are optimized and deliver consistent and robust results.
The ScrumMaster is expected do anything possible to help the team perform at their highest level, by removing any impediments, and facilitating meetings. Where impediments cannot be removed quickly, then they should escalate the matter appropriately to ensure rapid resolution.
The ScrumMaster will have the primary responsibility for ensuring that the Scrum team achieves the agreed sprint objectives with delivery of high quality, potentially shippable software. They should facilitate the sprint planning process and drive the team to maximize their output without over-committing. They should ensure that requirements (user stories) are fully defined and understood and that work estimates are accurate and achievable. They should monitor sprint progress at all times and take the necessary corrective action for successful delivery of the software, constantly looking for opportunities to increase the velocity of the team.
Qualifications BE or any graduate Additional Information
Desirable - Hands on using Jira or similar Agile tools.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
- Work flexibility and imaginatively in a changing and evolving project environment.
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing – Understanding of Gherkin and Cucumber an advantage
- Knowledge of Estimation (Planning Poker, Effort based)
- Prior role in any lead capacity – Tech Lead / Team Lead
- Preferred to have Development / automated testing background
- Knowledge and experience with server side technologies like Uniface and client side technologies JavaScript, EXT-JS.
- Experience of working with European customers, if not British.
- Good hands on knowledge of spreadsheets – Google sheets / MS Excel.
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