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Technical Writer (Junior) – Job Description
JOB POSTING
- Responsible for authoring tasks, creation, and integration of software documentation for end user and support teams.
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively and work closely with developers and SMEs to gather technical information about products to write customer facing documentation.
- Coordinate documentation plans and document outlines; define the audience, determine task list, and identify technical information requirements.
- Takes complete ownership of assigned manual to deliver, gathers the required support/inputs.
- Ability to research, analyze, and understand technical information about the product and new functionality and write technical information for inclusion into documentation on-time and as per the defined quality standards.
- Gather information through product specification docs, interviews, demos, and product exploration. Must be assertive in asking questions and generally be resourceful in finding answers.
- Ability to understand, analyze, and implement customer and support team’s feedback on documentation for hardware and software products.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with teams located globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Write easy-to-understand user documentation on topics such as Installation, Configuration, Administration, Troubleshooting, Software Change Notices.
- Be fluent in developer terminology and developer-friendly language
- You need to provide estimates about documentation tasks to the Scrum Master.
- Produce high-quality documentation in a standard and consistent manner.
- Analyze existing and potential content and identify necessary amendments.
- Monitor the delivery of documents to ensure they are on time and are of good quality.
- Build product knowledge and understand the Honeywell BMS products and their applications.
JOB ACTIVITIES
YOU MUST HAVE
- Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal)
- 4+ years of experience developing software and hardware technical documentation.
- Strong proofreading, editing, and writing skills
- High level of ownership and a ‘Get it Done’ attitude
- Proven working experience in developing procedural software documentation.
- Careful attention to detail, strong organization, and editing/proofreading skills.
- Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text, pictures and flow diagrams.
WE VALUE
- Good to have experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience working with Adobe Frame Maker, Madcap Flare, Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator and more
- Familiarity with topic-based authoring, structured content, DITA publishing
- Excellent team and communication skills
- Ability to take the initiative and work with limited direction
- Ability to influence at the operational level
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in technical stream.
- Knowledge of databases, HTML, XML, Network controllers, building controls, security systems, industrial controls, data centers, or energy management.
Additional Information
- JOB ID: HRD219018
- Category: Customer Experience
- Location: 56 & 57 Hadapsar Industrial Estate,Pune,MAHARASHTRA,411013,India
- Nonexempt