Senior Technical Writer

Qualifications:

• Producing high-quality, clear, accurate, and complete documentation within established deadlines.
• Organizing and prioritizing tasks and have exceptional analytical skills. Your ability to organize your time and see projects through to completion with minimal supervision is extremely important.
• Managing multiple projects and deliverables.
• Working in an agile development environment and gathering information for a writing assignment from a variety of sources, including development, QA, UX, and product management.
• Researching and learning new technologies in Technical Communications.
• Minimum Bachelor degree in scientific/engineering or related discipline
• 5-7 years of technical writing experience
• Working experience in scientific or engineering discipline
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Experience in creating various formats of documentation software, or other products, for a variety of audiences (end users, system administrators, IT managers)
• Knowledge of content management authoring/publishing tools, in particular MadCap Flare
• Sound knowledge of XML and HTML and various help formats
• Ability to create high quality graphics using tools, such as Microsoft Visio.
• Knowledge of video production techniques and experience with tools such as Camtasia or MadCap Mimic.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum
• Excellent work ethic and desire to learn and take on new challenges
• Experience with usability and user experience practices
• Ability to communicate clearly with all project stakeholders in distributed locations
• Awareness of technical communication trends
• Provides recommendations to continuously improve technical writing in the organization