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Short company description
Qualitance is a consulting company established in 2007, focused on providing a wide range of services for corporate customers, running operations in Bucharest and Brasov. Qualitance provides technology consulting services structured on four competency lines / service lines:STQA, WTAS, SASM, PMPA.
Responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities:
- Be responsible for the analysis and specification of use cases based on project orders, user personas and scenarios;
- Develop user-centered interfaces and processes using rapid prototyping tools;
- Take part in creating User Centered Design Guidelines (processes and interaction behavior) together with our peers in Germany;
- Take responsibility for the conceptual design, prototyping, clear communication and verification of the correct implementation of your concept;
- Prepare, implement and evaluate usability tests.
Requirements
Description:
The successful candidate will be enrolled in Qualitance as UX Consultant and shall work integrated with customer's team to help scope, lead, and deliver high quality UX design solutions. An UX Consultant is skilled at understanding a client’s problem and coming up with the “big picture” concept direction and is able to both direct, critique, and coach a small team and roll up his/her sleeves to flesh out a design. He/she works collaboratively with the rest of the team to conduct the appropriate research, design the solution, and create user profiles, scenarios, wireframes, site maps, and other important design deliverables. He/she also contributes to business development efforts by providing input for SOW’s and Proposals, and participating in RFP development.
UX/Design requirements:
- Several years experience as an interface architect, concept or UX / Interaction Designer, or as an information architect
- Able to draw insights from user research, create an inspiring vision that reflects the client’s brand, help stakeholders visualize the experience via low- and high-fidelity prototypes, and evaluate designs through usability testing
- Hands-on skills with and/or understanding of the application of visual design and brand identity to Rich Internet Applications and web sites; excellent grasp of User-Centered Design and usability best practices
- Ability to tailor the User-Centered Design Process to the needs of specific clients
- A solid point of view on and knowledge of current user-interface design patterns and best practices, especially using next-generation technologies in enterprise applications and B2C websites, including emerging design patterns for social computing, blogs, etc.
- Hands-on experience with:
• gathering business requirements
• performing usability surveys and competitive analyses
• creating user profiles and personas
• defining usability requirements
• creating information architectures and taxonomies
• conducting focus groups/workshops and usability testing (including cognitive walkthroughs, paper prototyping and recorded tests)
• creating wireframes and high fidelity prototypes
• creating surveys and freesorting exercises
• writing functional specs and style guides
- Ability to translate user requirements artifacts such as wireframes and prototypes into functional specifications for development teams
- Able to recognize and communicate UX patterns, code solutions and innovations to clients and development teams
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills demonstrated by the ability to facilitate group discussions and lead client requirement activities such as business analyses, task analyses, and creative workshops
- Comfortable to lead or conduct user requirements activities such as ethnographic studies, interviews, focus groups, design workshops, and usability tests
- Ability to translate user requirements artifacts such as wireframes and prototypes into functional specifications for development teams
- Very good experience in analyzing business goals and metrics, understanding users and usability best practices while maintaining client’s brand direction
- Well developed project management skills: estimating work, project planning and tracking, risk analysis, and scope control
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in English
Technical requirements
- Very good hands-on skills with DHTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Working knowledge of technologies such as AJAX, XML, DHTML, Flash, Flex, AIR, PHP, Java
- Experience with creating Web-ready graphics in Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Gimp or Inkscape
- Good knowledge of:
• MS Office or Open Office, including Powerpoint or Impress
• Visio, Omnigraffle or other flow-charting applications
Ideal attributes of a Qualitance consultant:
- Commitment to quality and a thorough approach to work
- Responsible and proactive - be aware and meet deadlines and
Benefits:
- Professional individual development package; mentoring and coaching programs
- Enterprise tools and methods trainings and certifications
- Work with top professionals in the field; team dedicated to delivering professional excellence
- Corporate professional environment; enterprise tools, technologies, process and procedures
- Core knowledge sharing process
- Attractive financial package
- Private medical plan
Qualitance is a company focused on providing software/technology consulting services, committed to facilitating quality in customers’ projects, whether they reside within the engineering/development or within the IT department.
Qualitance provides services structured on five competency lines:
- Software testing and software quality assurance
- Software development services
- Database and business intelligence
- Systems administration, application support and maintenance
- Technical project management and project administration
Qualitance has a very clear career path program. We take your career as seriously as you do and we actively look for projects where our team members can develop new skills to further their careers. Our sophisticated performance management process takes your personal goals into account, naturally aligning them with company goals, giving you a balanced, satisfying professional life.
We invest time and training for junior employees to help them come up to speed an we all work together - Qualitance uses an innovative collaborative model, SharedCoreKnowledge™. You will never be alone in front of a client, the entire team will always stand behind you for support.
Our environment is stimulating, challenging, fun and collegial.
