Ekaterina Surgutanova

Project Manager with strong Business Analysis background, leading product delivery from requirements definition to release. • Translated complex business needs into structured, actionable requirements (User Stories, Use Cases, Acceptance Criteria, BRD) • Owned backlog and delivery lifecycle end-to-end: prioritization, scoping, and release coordination • Designed and visualized business processes, supporting decision-making with clear documentation and presentations • Acted as a bridge between stakeholders and engineering, ensuring alignment and minimizing delivery risks • Contributed to solution design by participating in architecture and logic discussions • Validated functionality, integrations, and data consistency to ensure high-quality product delivery • Improved requirement clarity and team efficiency through structured documentation and communication

Project Manager delivering web and mobile digital products across a multi-industry IT portfolio, leading multi-project execution while taking cross-functional ownership across planning, QA, documentation, and release coordination. •Led delivery of digital products across a portfolio of 7+ concurrent web and mobile projects, balancing priorities, timelines, and shared team capacity • Aligned business goals with technical execution through direct client communication, scope clarification, and expectation management across international stakeholders • Drove stakeholder alignment across international clients, managing expectations, clarifying scope, and ensuring transparency around risks, timelines, and delivery milestones • Structured project workflows and introduced standardized task and commit naming conventions, significantly improving reporting transparency and reducing reconciliation effort by ~50% • Designed and implemented a unified task briefing framework, strengthening requirement clarity and minimizing development rework • Took ownership of the final delivery phase of a government digital project, overseeing release readiness and preparing 100+ pages of official technical and user documentation for state acceptance • Performed full-cycle manual QA (functional and regression testing) and led final validation before release to ensure production stability • Conducted independent UX flow reviews, identifying friction points and proposing usability improvements across multiple products

Worked in an outsourcing environment managing small-scale digital projects and supporting a Senior PM in delivery coordination and stakeholder communication. • Managed 1–3 parallel projects while supporting a Senior PM in delivery coordination and stakeholder communication • Structured backlog and task workflows, including task decomposition and workload planning to ensure predictable execution • Established reporting processes to improve project visibility and track progress • Prepared comprehensive Software Requirements Documentation (SRD), integrating user flows and wireframes to clarify requirements • Conducted research and proposed improvements to enhance project performance and delivery efficiency

Completed a project management training program and contributed to a CRM development project, supporting planning, documentation, backlog management, and Agile execution. • Led end-to-end delivery of a CRM system for Siroca Technology, overseeing planning, requirements clarification, and execution tracking. • Prepared Software Requirements Documentation (SRD) under tight deadlines and delivered it ahead of schedule. • Maintained the project roadmap, prioritized backlog items, decomposed features into actionable tasks, and monitored sprint progress. • Coordinated a cross-functional team of 5+ members, achieving 90% on-time task completion across sprints. • Facilitated Agile ceremonies including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective.