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Usability/Human Factors Specialist


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Company Global CI
URL www.globalci.com
Location Baltimore, MD USA
Contact Tracy Jackson: tjackson@globalci.com

Position details:

  • Provide user-centered design support and leadership to project teams supporting a federal agency.
  • This includes the ability to derive business processes, analyze user needs, assist in requirements definition, design browser-based interfaces, and design and conduct usability testing.

Required:

  • Bachelors degree in Cognitive Psychology, Human Factors Engineering, Visual Design, Instructional Systems Design, or similar.
  • Direct interaction/interface design experience of 10 years to include user centered methods and user analysis
  • Direct experience with consulting to federal agencies
  • Experience with contextual inquiry methods
  • Experience in eliciting business goals and user needs
  • Experience creating personas and scenarios of use
  • Experience in creating and refining screen prototypes
  • Experience designing and conducting formative and summative usability tests in both formal and informal settings
  • Ability to document user requirements, screen designs, and design recommendations
  • Ability to prepare and present findings and recommendations in large and small group settings
  • Thorough understanding of iterative software development methods
  • Understanding of requirements definition process
  • Ability to lead project design teams
  • Ability to mentor team members
  • Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams
  • Excellent written and verbal skills

Additional desired skills include:

  • Graduate degree in Cognitive Psychology, Human Factors Engineering, Visual Design, Instructional Systems Design, or similar.
  • Experience with Section 508 compliance

To apply

Contact Tracy Jackson: tjackson@globalci.com

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