UX Design Analyst

Overview:

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking an experienced User Experience (UX) Design Analyst to support the Bureau of Reclamation in the development of a web-based publication platform for scientific and engineering data and information. The UX Design Analyst will work with the product owner, product manager, project team, and users to implement an ongoing UX improvement cycle including analyzing opportunities to improve UX, creating UX requirements and designs, and ensuring that UX improvements are implemented effectively.

This position is 100% remote. 

• Analyze the existing user experience and identify areas for enhancement.
• Create high-level requirements, UX designs and rapid prototypes to support evaluation and selection of project development approach.
• Convert proposed enhancements into detailed UX requirements (e.g., written user workflows, technical requirements, and design specifications) and designs (e.g., wireframes and prototypes) to be used by the development team.
• Provide guidance on UX best practices to the product manager, project team members, and stakeholders.
• Maintain awareness of developments and trends in website design/UX, ensuring developed solutions are current.
• Analyze and utilize web metrics (e.g., Google Analytics) to drive UX decisions.
• Design and conduct various types of formal and informal usability testing and requirements gathering (surveys, user interviews, focus groups, A/B testing etc.).
• Collect, organize, and analyze user feedback and incorporate into site design.
• Prepare user testing scripts and perform pre- and post-release testing during each development phase to ensure user changes have been implemented successfully according to requirements.
• Reviews websites and applications for compliance with government regulations (e.g., 21^st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 255 of the Communications Act).

• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s Degree in UX Design, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5 years of related professional experience preferred.
• Experience in user experience analysis, user-centered design, information architecture and user interface design concepts.
• Experience in quality assurance (QA) testing.
• Experience in requirements solicitation/gathering.
• Experience with user interface graphical design using Photoshop, Illustrator or similar.
• Ability to use wireframe software, such as Adobe XD, Balsamiq, or other most used wireframe software.
• Experience with Google Analytics (G4)
• Understanding of 508 Compliance Standards
• Knowledge of US Web Design Standards

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.