Scrum Master L1

Company: Wipro
Location: Hyderabad, India
Experience: 5 – 8 Years
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Department: Engineering – Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
Compensation: Not Disclosed

Role Purpose

As a trained Scrum Master, you will be responsible for facilitating a Scrum team and ensuring that the Scrum process is implemented effectively. You will help remove impediments, promote self-management within the team, and ensure collaboration and focus towards achieving sprint goals and deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Be accountable for meeting sprint objectives in collaboration with the Scrum team.

• Ensure that sprint commitments are met and impediments are resolved promptly.

• Support the Product Owner (PO) in adopting Scrum processes effectively and ensuring their availability to the team.

• Assist the PO in maintaining the Product Backlog, defining user stories, and setting acceptance criteria.

• Facilitate estimation sessions, backlog refinement, and all planning ceremonies.

• Ensure Definition of Ready (DoR), Definition of Done (DoD), and acceptance criteria are established and followed.

• Maintain adherence to MoSCoW prioritization within sprint backlogs.

• Safeguard the team from external disruptions and ensure a productive environment.

• Enable clear communication within the team and across cross-functional teams.

• Participate in Scrum of Scrums to escalate and resolve impediments.

• Provide feedback on team performance to Agile Line Managers and Program Leaders.

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Daily Stand-up, Grooming, Demo, Retrospective).

• Maintain and update Scrum artifacts and ensure ALM tools (client or Wipro) are updated daily.

• Track, analyze, and report key Scrum metrics, taking corrective action where necessary.

• Drive competency improvement and cross-skilling plans, ensuring at least 50% of the team is multi-skilled.

• Support the team in achieving a stable velocity within 6–8 sprints (with 10% variation).

• Train and mentor team members on Agile processes (Scrum, XP, Kanban).

• Promote adoption of engineering practices such as ATDD, TDD, CI/CD, and refactoring.

• Record, own, and track retrospective actions to completion.

• Participate in internal communities of practice and contribute to quality improvement forums (QIC, APR, QBR, MBR).

Mandatory Skills

• Agile Scrum Methodology

Preferred Skills

• User Stories

• Kanban

• Agile Process Management

• ATDD / TDD

• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

• Project Management

• ALM Tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)

• Velocity and Estimation Techniques

• Product Management

• Business Analysis

• Backlog Refinement

• Digital Transformation Initiatives

Education

• Undergraduate: B.Tech / B.E. in any specialization

• Postgraduate: Any Postgraduate Degree

How to Apply

Interested candidates can apply through the official Wipro Careers Portal:
https://careers.wipro.com/