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SOFIIA YATSENKO
Project Manager

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Chisinau, Moldova, remote

SUMMARY
Project Manager with a Business Analyst background and a degree in International Relations, where research,
communication and structured written work were part of daily routine. Hands-on experience planning and delivering a
product feature from idea to a ready backlog: scope and MVP definition, backlog prioritization in Jira, documentation in
Confluence, and traceability from stakeholder needs to test cases. Fluent in English and Ukrainian.

SKILLS
Project management: SDLC · Agile/Scrum · Waterfall
Planning & control: Scope, timeline and resource management · Project plans & roadmaps · Task breakdown · Gantt charts ·
Backlog prioritization
Risks & changes: Risk & dependency tracking · Change request handling · Change management
Reporting: Project status reports · Sprint planning · Communication planning · Stakeholder analysis
Requirements & documentation: Requirements clarification · Use Cases · Business Rules · FR/NFR
Tools: Jira · Confluence · Trello · Miro · Google Sheets · Notion · Figma · Draw.io
Modeling & technical: BPMN · SQL · Postman · Swagger (OpenAPI) · Git
Languages: English (B2)

EXPERIENCE Mar 2026 – Sep 2026

Business Analyst / Project Coordinator
Self-employed

Project: TravelMate — Wishlist

A trip-planning platform where users can save hotels they like, organize them into lists, compare options, and get notified about
price drops and low availability.
Planned the scope of the feature end to end: business objectives, stakeholder requirements, constraints and release
priorities, documented in a complete BRD.
Prioritized the backlog by business value and effort and defined the MVP (3 core stories); managed the backlog in Jira and
kept all project documentation up to date in Confluence.
Wrote and structured 12 User Stories with Acceptance Criteria so that developers, designers and QA could clearly
understand, estimate and verify the work.
Maintained a Traceability Matrix mapping 8 stakeholder requirements to stories and test cases (100% coverage), which
allowed tracking progress and spotting uncovered scope early.
Modeled workflows and system interactions (BPMN, UML Activity/Sequence, ERD) to align business and technical
stakeholders on a shared picture.
Documented API endpoints in OpenAPI (Swagger) and validated them in Postman; designed low-fi wireframes in Figma
and refined UX with usability heuristics.

EDUCATION ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
I. I. Mechnykov National University Business Analyst course at Mate academy Certification
Odesa, Ukraine, 2020-2025
Bachelor/Master’s Degree
in International Relations (with honors)

ACHIEVEMENTS
Published research (analytical & academic writing) in 2024–2025
author of two articles on international relations, diplomacy, and humanitarian cooperation.