Usability Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

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Usability Engineer/ Human Factors Engineer

 

Job Description:

·   Usability engineer will have to solve challenging human-computer interaction problems for complex, time-sensitive software applications.

·   Should have familiarity with task analyses, user interface design, and usability testing.

• Familiar with each of the usability and software engineering cycle phases (analysis, design, implementation, and deployment).

• Working under direction with users (analysts) to research for and document user profiles, analysis tasks, workflows, and user scenarios.

·   Required to design and conduct usability studies, including expectancy tests, focus groups, cognitive walkthroughs, etc.   

·   Will also design and analyze objective user experiments that measure human performance on software tasks.

·   Working under direction with product designers and process engineers developing applications.

• Should be familiar with a statistical software package such as SPSS or miniTab.

·   Good business communication skills.