Job Description :
Sr. UX Designer @ Round Rock, TX for 12+ Months contract
Job Description:
Senior User Experience Designer candidates live to create intuitive digital experiences that are delightful and easy for people to use and candidates understand how to accomplish this for even the most complex products and applications.
Candidates make the complex simple.
Candidates turn business requirements into user benefit across multiple devices types, platforms, and user states.
Candidates never sit still and are always pro-actively seeking new ways to improve the user experience.
Client’s Services IT is seek a Senior User Experience Designer to join Client’s multi-disciplinary UX team to design world-class user experiences for external and internal Client’s users.
Client’s mission is to deliver simple and elegant digital experiences to a wide spectrum of Client’s customers, from the customer seeking help on the website to the tech agent on the phone, and everyone in-between.
These experiences range from the Client and Client’s EMC Support websites to mobile experiences and internal software.
The Senior UX Designer is a crucial part of the UX team and works closely with Designers, Researchers, and business partners to deliver these solutions.
Primary Responsibilities:
Apply design thinking to the end-to-end customer experience Intake and understand complex business requirements and translate them into effective digital experiences that help customers.
Create UX documentation (transaction flows, scenarios, wireframes, navigation models, prototypes, user interaction specifications) to communicate concepts and designs to internal partners.
Propose, lead, and participate in user research, usability validation, and A/B testing.
Work closely with other team members including UI Designers, Business Owners, Product Managers, Content Strategists, and Development Teams to bring your designs to life.
Take ownership of your projects as a whole, following them through to launch and relentlessly looking for the best way to solve business problems and improve the customer experience.
Requirements:
Client's ideal candidate will have 5 plus years as a User Experience Designer, User Experience Architect, Information Architect, Interaction Designer, or similar role working with dynamic, high-traffic websites or software products.
Digital agency experience or experience with a Fortune 500 company preferred.
An eye for design in general and an understanding of key principles of information design.
Experience creating wireframes, sitemaps, prototypes, personas and use cases Strong proficiency with MS Visio, Adobe Creative Suite, and other UX tools.
Ability to succinctly and effectively present an idea to a group of stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to gather feedback from peers and stakeholders and incorporate to improve the final product.
Experience following brand standards and UX patterns Experience with front end coding skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (jQuery) preferred, but not required.
A track-record of delivering the highest quality of work, even under tight time constraints.
An outstanding online portfolio with relevant examples of finished work, wireframes, prototypes, specification documents and/or process flows.
The portfolio must contain recent work examples from your professional experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Information Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Library Science, Information Systems, Visual Design, or equivalent work experience.
Accountabilities:
Designs, codes, tests, debugs and documents software according to Client’s systems quality standards, policies and procedures.
Analyzes business needs and creates software solutions.
Responsible for preparing design documentation.
Prepares test data for unit, string and parallel testing.
Evaluates and recommends software and hardware solutions to meet user needs.
Resolves customer issues with software solutions and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
Works with business and development teams to clarify requirements to ensure testability.
Drafts, revises, and maintains test plans, test cases, and automated test scripts.
Executes test procedures according to software requirements specifications Logs defects and makes recommendations to address defects.
Retests software corrections to ensure problems are resolved.
Documents evolution of testing procedures for future replication.
May conduct performance and scalability testing.
Responsibilities:
Plans, conducts and leads assignments generally involving moderate, high budgets projects or more than one project.
Manages user expectations regarding appropriate milestones and deadlines.
Assists in training, work assignment and checking of less experienced developers.
Serves as technical consultant to leaders in the IT organization and functional user groups.
Subject matter expert in one or more technical programming specialties; employs expertise as a generalist of a specialist.
Performs estimation efforts on complex projects and tracks progress.
Works on the highest level of problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
Documents, evaluates and researches test results; documents evolution of testing scripts for future replication.
Identifies, recommends and implements changes to enhance the effectiveness of quality assurance strategies.