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Mar 11 04
Source: CHI-Jobs
Usability Engineer Trainee, XRT Enterprise User Experience, Paris – La Défense, France.
We are looking for a talented Usability Engineer Trainee with demonstrated ability to gather user feedback at all stages of the development lifecycle for our world-class enterprise Web-based applications.
User experience (UE) professionals at XRT are empowered and appreciated! We are responsible for the design and evaluation of XRT's Business products. You could become part of our experienced multidisciplinary UE team, working with development, support, documentation, sales, marketing and strategy to create user-centered Web-based business applications that are a pleasure to use.
Responsibilities:
Work with product development and others in the User Experience team to develop plans for gathering user feedback.
Conduct usability tests, heuristic evaluations, cognitive walkthroughs and other types of user research. Analyze and synthesize information and communicate the analysis and synthesized information back to product teams. Provide concrete, actionable recommendations that teams can use to fix problems found.
Work with a multidisciplinary team including developers, graphic designers, interaction designers, documentation and others to create products that are easy to use, efficient and meet the needs of users.
Skills and Qualifications
Familiarity with current usability research, theories and methodologies, especially with regards to web development. Thorough understanding of User-Centered Design practices and principles. Skilled in designing reliable and repeatable experiments.
Knowledge in the usability engineering of enterprise business applications preferred (financials, enterprise services automation, human resources management, supply chain management, and/or customer relations management).
Willingness to learn new technologies. Experience with Web technology such as XML, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS preferred.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in French and English.
About XRT
XRT (Euronext Paris, Euroclear 5458), collaborative software for the Financial Value Chain.
For the extended enterprise looking into optimizing their Financial Value Chain, XRT's collaborative solutions enable thousands of organizations worldwide to successfully impact their bottom-line by streamlining collection, liquidity, risks and payments management processes thus effectively reducing their working capital requirements.
Unlike accounting-based systems XRT solutions provide real-time, cash-based information on enterprise-wide financial activities to financial executives and CEO's. In comparison to new comers focusing on a single domain of the financial value chain, XRT solutions span across the financial spectrum while catering to both traditional business flows and those originating from c-commerce channels.
XRT has formed strategic alliances with world-renowned software editors such as JD Edwards, Lawson Software, Peoplesoft, SAP... with key players such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle... and with banking partners such as BNP-Paribas, Chase, Commerzbank, Crédit Agricole-Indosuez, Caixa Geral de depositos, Fortis, HSBC-CCF, Natexis-Banques Populaires... XRT is a member of TWIST - Treasury Workstation Integration Standards Team - and is a partner of Currenex. These partnerships, combined with XRT's international presence in 55 countries and its high level of expertise, has enabled the company to help over 10 000 clients. XRT was founded in 1983 as CERG Finance. The Company generated EUR 40.3 million in revenue in 2002 with a staff of 380.
From April to September
For more information, visit us at www.xrt.com
To apply for the position, please submit your resume to nmetivier at fr.xrt.com