ICT usability tester

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ICT usability testers ensure compliance with requirements and strive for optimal usability within the software engineering cycle phases (analysis, design, implementation, and deployment). They also work closely with users (analysts) to research for and document user profiles, analyse tasks, workflows, and user scenarios.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • behavioural science
  • application usability
  • human-computer interaction
  • levels of software testing

Skills and competences

  • create website wireframe
  • execute ICT user research activities
  • execute software tests
  • assess users' interaction with ICT applications
  • test for behavioural patterns
  • test for emotional patterns
  • measure software usability
  • provide software testing documentation
  • conduct research interview
  • replicate customer software issues
  • use experience map

Transversal competences

  • Prácticas éticas en la codificación y manejo de datos
  • address problems critically
  • report test findings

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences