US-CT-HARTFORD – USABILITY ENGINEER ~ETBS
WHY JOIN THE HARTFORD?
As a global leader in insurance, asset
management and financial service products, we offer professionals every possibility for growth. And whether we're helping customers or building careers, we're experts at creating the kind of advantages that
help people reach their goals.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are looking for an experienced Usability
& Human Factors Engineer to join the User Interaction Design team in The Hartford's eBusiness Technology Solutions organization. Requirements for this position include:
- Master's Degree in Human Factors Engineering, Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Psychology, or Educational Psychology.
- Minimum of three years experience as a usability/human factors engineer in the web development arena.
- Minimum three years experience with online design, information design, and interactive design, including a solid understanding of and experience
with the web and web technologies
- Experience with hypothesis testing.
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
- Working knowledge of experimental design and descriptive and inferential statistics.
- Working knowledge of user profiling, task analysis, scenario development, user interface design, and usability evaluation methods.
- Proven user interaction design skills and usability testing and evaluation experience.
- A strong understanding of GUI design concepts, elements, theories and emerging technologies is necessary.
- Experience with task analysis, and usability assessment methods.
- Must be organized, independent, and self-directed.
- Ability to travel to the user (agency) site as needed.
WHAT IS THE COMPENSATION OPPORTUNITY?
At The Hartford, our
compensation philosophy is simple: we pay competitive base salaries and we reward performance. The base salary for this position ranges from $65,000 to $83,000. In addition, you will be eligible to
participate in our comprehensive benefits program including medical insurance, a 401K plan, and Employee Stock Purchase and more.
WHAT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POSITION?
The Usability Engineer responsibilities:
- Become an integral part of a web development/e-commerce group whose focus is on user-centered design.
- Contribute to the success of web based insurance tools/applications in the marketplace by conducting user studies in task analysis, user
profiling, task scenario development, prototype development, and usability evaluation. You will be involved in iterative design and test processes, so a thorough understanding of constructing usability goals
from business cost-benefit analyses and user data is critical.
- Develop, administer, and analyze user preference, profile, and user interaction surveys.
- Conduct competitive product analysis from a usability perspective.
- Conduct primary usability research as warranted.
- Work closely with customers, business and the development teams to play a lead role in user interface design.
- Interview customers, conduct heuristic evaluations, run usability tests, analyze usability data and present findings.
- Assist in educating business and IT partners on the value of usability and its practices.
- Provide input to the User Interface Design Standard.
WHAT ELSE CAN YOU TELL ME?
This position resides in our Home Office
Campus in Hartford, CT. We offer free parking, an on site medical facility, and fitness center. Home Office Campus also has a gift shop, two full service cafeterias, three ATM machines and many other
conveniences.
***NO AGENCIES PLEASE***
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building inclusion and leveraging diversity.
If your interested in applying for this opportunity, please visit our website at www.thehartford.com/careers and type in the Job ID # 001166 in the keyword search area to apply.
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