Usability Expert with Interwoven Teamsite, Websphere & Agile/Scrum

   

Functional Title:  Quality Assurance Analyst



Overall Experience:  10+ Yrs. 



Position Description:  Usability Expert

 

*Must be local San Francisco Bay area residents.

*Must be US Citizen or green card holder. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

 

Project:

Our client in the healthcare sector is seeking staffing augmentation to design, develop, test, implement and deploy the functionality required from Enterprise Portal Framework (EPF) Release 2.

 

EPF Release 1.0 was implemented and went live on Dec 26, 2006 with myHR self service functionality, rolled out to NCAL, NW and Texas employees, approx 70,000 users.

 

Staff augmentation for Release 2.1 that will address only the framework capabilities and capacity enhancements to meet the needs of upcoming tenants - NAI followed by Communications and KPIT. Release 2.2 that will address the NAI specific business requirements and intake activities, has been excluded from the scope of this release.

 

The scope of this release primarily includes architectural framework and capability enhancements.


The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with designers, engineers, product management, marketing and customer support.



Responsibilities will include the following.

· Conducting usability tests and performing heuristic analyses.

· Analyzing and translating usability evaluation outcomes into design improvements.

· Providing prioritized feedback from usability evaluations.

· Meeting directly with users to understand their goals and needs.

· Working with product management to translate user goals into product requirements.

· Defining corporate test protocols.

· Working with outside firms, when necessary, to conduct usability evaluations.

· Working with designers and product management to establish methods for measuring the quality of designs.

· The successful candidate will have experience with many of the following.

· Confidence in his/her skills and the demonstrated ability to work independently and as member of a team.

· History of working on multiple projects at once.

· Comfort in working with project managers to create project plans.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
---Experience conducting user research, understanding user goals, and creating personas.

· Ability to perform statistical analyses.

· Demonstrated history of planning and executing usability evaluations.

· Experience evaluating and designing web-based software.

· Ability to present results from usability evaluations to diverse audiences, consisting of executives and managers.

· Must have experience with Interwoven Teamsite

· Must have experience in various Software Development Methodologies, specifically AGILE / SCRUM

 


Work Location:   4460 Hacienda Drive, Bldg D, Pleasanton, CA 94588

Target Start Date:  05/19/2008 

Max Rate to Consultant: $65/hr