Who is a technical writer and what are their roles and responsibilities?

Technical writing as the name says, it is something to do with technical writing. You are responsible for writing technical documentation, writing technical reviews about the product. Work hand in hand with the Software developers and help them with User Interface writing and User Experience writing and should know at least the basics of coding.

Every software developer in the Development stage is entitled to write codes and program the application. They need help from a technical writer with the documentation about the usage of the application. Some need help writing the overview and primary usage of the application and some follow the instructions and guides on how to use the application and how to run it.

The technical writer comes to the rescue, their job is to find the texts and scripts which are helpful for the coding team and also write the UI and UX which is helpful for the end user.

Every technical writer is expected to understand the coding part, the audience’s level of understanding, usage of vivid applications, how to write in HTML, how to read JSON and JAVASCRIPT.

Technical writers belong to a  core team and they operate independently, Every individual is assigned a project which consists of a Coding team, Quality team, Testing team, and production team.

Every individual team communicates with technical writers and seek their help in documenting the application and also seeks their help in writing tooltip, tool texts, and headings and seeks their help in checking the grammar and spelling mistakes.

They maintain the repository of technical documentation, articles, blogs, Knowledge base, website and more.