Julia Payul

Experience

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  TEAM International

  Sept 2005 - Sept 2009

  Holding onsite and online meetings with English- and Russian-speaking clients.Writing/compiling/editing/updating/reviewing/translating technical and non-technical documentation that accompany different projects.Describing product features, preparing documentation for release.Monitoring/controlling/auditing software development and maintenance projects. - Searching for applicants in the US area according to the technical description of positions for the US IT companies.- Screening, testing, interviewing applicants, gathering references for applicants who can be hired in the US. - Assignments distribution for all team members (10+) and quality assurance of their work, training new team members. - Reporting on team assignments fulfillment to the management.

  • Technical Writer, Business Analyst Intern

    Sept 2006 - Sept 2009

  • [Lead] Technical Recruiter

    Sept 2005 - Sept 2006
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  Aldec

  Sept 2009 - Feb 2010

  Technical Writer, Business Analyst

  - Writing/compiling/editing/updating/reviewing/translating technical documentation: User Guide, Tutorials, documentary part of the software product.- Analyzing the product, preparing documentation for releases.- Discussing new features with clients, documenting them and tracing, tracking implementation and bugfixes, reporting to the client.- Creating content for the company website.

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  Ubitexx GmbH

  Mar 2010 - May 2011

  Business Analyst, Technical Writer

  - Communicating with English-speaking clients, discussing their business needs, providing them with solutions; bringing it to the tech team in the shape of SRS.- Exploring, discussing, documenting product structure, its components, boundaries, physical and logical connections, and dependencies of the software product aimed to manage corporate mobile devices.- Creating content for the company site.

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  BlackBerry

  May 2011 - Jan 2012

  Business Analyst, Technical Writer

  - Leading onsite and online meetings with English- and Russian-speaking clients, gathering requirements.- Communicating requirements to the technical team.- Eliciting, documenting, and tracking requirements.- Creating original user manuals.- Describing the architecture of processes and devices.

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  Yuliya Payul

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Professional Freelancer

  Creating, translating (Russian/English/Spanish), editing, correcting articles, web sites’ content (including SEO writing) for different areas.

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  WebCreek

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2021

  Business Analyst, Project Manager

  - Playing the Product Owner role for the client and the Business Owner role for the tech team: creating, prioritizing, and grooming product and sprint backlogs based on client’s business needs; facilitating work of the technical team; reporting the increments produced by the team to the client. - Managing development and support projects under Scrum and Kanban, as well as the mixed methodology (Scrum + Waterfall). - Analyzing client’s business needs and offering the best technical solutions within the provided time/budget frames.- Planning projects and tracking their progress (time/budget), reporting the progress to the client and company management.- Collaborating with the design team: develop branding, create functional prototypes based on clients’ needs and requirements.- Functional testing, usability testing, regression testing, UAT.- Experience in working with distributed/remote teams in different time zones and languages.- Interviewing and selecting candidates for PM and BA roles, training interns as well as new project team members. Analyzing and improving processes for different areas as well as creating a process documentation. Mostrar menos

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  Ballast Lane Applications, LLC

  Jan 2021 - now

  QA Manager

  - Manage a team of 20+ Quality Assurance Engineers - Set up QA processes on the company and project levels, create guidelines.- Set up team assessment processes and perform assessments.- QA resources allocation.- Onboarding new team members to the team and to the projects.- Designing and executing the selection process for new QA resources, onboard and training new team members.- Testing: design test cases, execute test runs, functional, regression, smoke, sanity testing, etc. in web and mobile (Android, IOS, emulators - BrowserStack). Frontend and backend testing (Postman, Playground)- QA lead: distribute tasks to the project QA team, design project test documentation.- Tools: Jira, TestRail, Slack, GSuite, Float, Cypress, Postman, Playground, Bitrise Mostrar menos