Usability Engineer 2

Avid Technology Professionals; Maryland; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Avid Technology Professionals in Maryland seeks a usability-focused professional to lead task analyses, UI design, and usability testing, collaborating with analysts, designers, and engineers.

Requirements include 10 years in the field, 5 years in user-centered design and testing, and a bachelor’s degree in cognitive/experiential psychology or related engineering. Telework is not available for this position.

Qualifications

• Ten years of experience in the field.
• Five years of user-centered design and testing experience.
• Experience researching and documenting user profiles, analyses, workflows and scenarios.
• Ability to translate user needs into UI specifications and surveys.

Skills

Task analyses

User interface design

Usability testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in cognitive/experiential psychology or related field

Job description

Testing 508C Compliance

Telework is not available for this position

Ten (10) years in this or related field and familiarity with task analyses, user interface design, and usability testing is required. Five (5) years user-centered design and testing experience is required. Shall have experience working closely with users (analysts) to research and document user profiles, analysis tasks, workflows, and user scenarios. Shall have experience working with users to collect and document user requirements, creating user interface design specifications, working closely with product designers and process engineers developing applications, conducting usability testing, and designing/developing user surveys to obtain user feedback. Bachelor's degree in cognitive and/or experimental psychology, human factors engineering, or an engineering related field (e.g. systems engineering, software engineering, business process engineering) is required. Four (4) years of additional experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.