User Experience Tester Job Posting



Job Title: User Experience Researcher/Tester - UX
Company: SESC
Position Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: competitive
Skills: Human Factors, UX, UI, Flash, Visio, Mobile
Date Posted: Aug-21-09

Systems Engineering Services (SESC) is a consulting company that hires our candidates as permanent, full-time employees and sends them out on different projects. We believe that this business model works in your favor because when a project is nearing its end, we begin looking for a new project for you. Hence, you will not be stuck without a project and more importantly, a paycheck.

SESC is searching for a User Experience (UX) Researcher/Tester to work in Atlanta, GA. Ideal candidate will have 4 or more years of work experience with state-of-the-art user-centered design and research methods, including experimental design, observational techniques, field studies, task analysis, paper prototype and usability studies, desirability studies, cognitive walkthroughs, usability studies, A/B testing, and data analysis.

The Researcher/Tester role will be involved in design and research projects that will impact the strategy and future direction of client's products as well as initiatives to continuously improve our design and research processes, tools, and the user-centered culture. This work will require close collaboration with team members and with the larger user experience community.

Responsibilities:
• Design and conduct user research (field studies, lab studies, and other techniques)
• Identify and specify
- persona, process and task models
- user scenarios and requirements
• Collaborate with the team
- to incorporate research findings, scenarios and requirements for the product
- to set user experience and usability goals for the product;
- creating user research plans;
- tracking usability defects and issues;
- reporting progress toward meeting user experience goals to management
• Collaborate with other user experience researchers to leverage and utilize findings from research conducted
• Analyze, interpret, and report research findings to the product delivery team
Job Requirements:
• Has demonstrated success in a user-centered design process to consistently produce insights, awesome experiences, and business value
• Has a relevant graduate degree within Human Factors, Psychology, Ethnography or similar field
• Has aptitude and passion for technology
• Has experience with developing or implementing consumer facing software applications
• Is knowledgeable about emerging research methods and tools, and is an innovator in research design, processes and/or methods

Additional Desired Skills:
• Has interaction design skills including experience with tools such as
Microsoft Visio
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Flash
• Is knowledgeable about interaction design patterns and guidelines for applications for Mobile and Web applications

If you have the skills listed above, are eligible for a permanent position, and are looking for your next challenging opportunity please contact me ASAP to discuss your background and the position.

Location: US-GA-Atlanta
Telecommute: No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name: Tami Squaire
Contact Phone:
Contact Email: tsquaire@sesc.com



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