General Information

City
Kochi
State/Province
Kerala
Country
India
Department
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Date
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Working time
Full-time
Ref#
20035497
Job Level
Individual Contributor
Job Type
Experienced
Job Field
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Seniority Level
Associate

Description & Requirements

About Xerox Holdings Corporation
At Xerox, we make work, work! For more than 100 years, Xerox has continually redefined the workplace experience. From the office to industrial environments, our differentiated business and technology offerings and financial services are essential workplace technology solutions that drive success for our clients and within our culture. Learn more at www.xerox.com and explore our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging.


The Scrum Master is the keeper of the Scrum Process. They work with the teams to help increase their productivity. They are responsible for teaching and upholding the process throughout the lifecycle and helping to remove barriers from the teams and organization. The Scrum Master works with the development team(s), with the emphasis on helping the teams and organization meet its delivery objectives in the most productive manner possible. The Scrum Master works to improve the team(s), the organization, and the process. 

 Education and Experience 

  • Have a minimum of 5 years working in software development. 
  • Have a minimum of 1 year experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment 
  • Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.  
  • BE/BTech/MCA 

 Skills/Knowledge and experience 

  • Demonstrate a solid understanding of the agile methodology and processes 
  • Demonstrate a solid understanding of Agile Estimation and be able to guide a team through a relative story pointing exercise 
  • Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks  
  • 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 
  • Building a trusting and safe environment where issues 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.  
  • Have knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing. 
  • Possess the ability to intelligently explain agreed to processes, methodologies and techniques being utilized by the organization to a variety of audiences (team members, PO, management, stakeholders) at the appropriate level 
  • 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.) 
  • Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus)  
  • Nice to have Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification 
  • Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP (Extreme Programming), Kanban, FDD (Feature-Driven Development) etc.  
  • Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team  
  • Experience applying a wide variety of 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.)  
 

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