Nurmanalieva Ultay Tlegenovna graduated from the faculty of foreign languages at the Kyrgyz State University named after the 50th anniversary of the USSRwith a degree French Language and Literature in 1984.
During 1999-2004 she defended her Ph.D. thesis at the Kazakh State University of International Relations and World Languages named after Abylai Khan on 13.00.02 “Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages” and receiveda degree Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences in Almaty.
During 1985-1993 worked as an English teacher of secondary schools, deputy director of school affairs and director of school.
During 1994-2000 worked at TarSU. named after M.H. Dulati, senior teacher, head of the department of "Foreign languages".
During 2000-2010 The Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at the Taraz Institute of the International Kazakh-Turkish Universitynamed after A. Yassavi, deputy head of the teaching and methodical department, dean of the faculties "Pedagogics", "Natural Science", "Information and Management".
During 2010-2013 The Head of the department of "Foreign Languages" at Taraz Innovative and HumanitiesUniversity.
During 2013-2015 The Head of the Center for the Development of Technical and Vocational Education of the Education Department of Zhambyl Oblast.
Since September 2016-2017 she has been working at Taraz State Pedagogical Institute as the head of the department "Practical foreign languages".
Nurmanalieva Ultay Tlegenovna is the author of 1 textbook, 3 manuals, 1 electronic textbook and more than 30 scientific articles.