User Experience Designer
Downey, CA

Job Description

Location: Downey, CA Job Code: 186453 Posted: Jun 27, 2019 Description:

Mastech Digital provides digital and mainstream technology staff as well as Digital Transformation Services for leading American Corporations. We are currently seeking a User Experience Designer for our client in the Healthcare domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits, exciting challenges, and the opportunity for growth. This is a Contract position and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 6+ Months Contract (with possible conversion and Hire)

Location: Downey, CA

Compensation: Market Rates

Role: User Experience Designer

Primary Skills: Business Analysis

Role Description: The UX Designer would need to have at least 6+ years of experience. For this role, you must have experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JavaScript, front-end frameworks (Bootstrap), AJAX, JSON, jQuery, AngularJS, CSS pre-processors (SASS, LESS).

Essential Responsibilities:

* Leverage Agile practices to prototype, design, develop, deliver and support effective interactive solutions that meet business, project, and design goals, based on industry best practices, standards and guidelines
* Apply deep understanding of UX design principles and methodologies as they relate to responsive development
* Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that deliver intuitive user experiences
* Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new functions and features
* Collaborate cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solve complex problems; escalate high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognize and capitalize on improvement opportunities
* Participate in backlog grooming, defining requirements, programming, unit testing and debugging of applications in a collaborative environment
* Develop and execute unit testing to identify application errors and ensure software solutions meet functional specifications
* Participate in design and code reviews, automated testing, continuous integration and delivery
* Create, review and revise technical specifications and documentation
* Work with a dynamic, large cross-functional team to solve multi domain complex design solutions with minimum supervision

Preferred Requirements:

* 6+ years hands-on UI/UX development experience and in-depth experience with rich template-based designs and web design, usability and development best practices with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JavaScript, front-end frameworks (Bootstrap), AJAX, JSON, jQuery, AngularJS, CSS pre-processors (SASS, LESS)
* Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.), color theory, graphic design, mockups and prototyping
* Experience with CSS3 (responsive/adaptive markup and bootstrap framework)
* Experience with SPA framework, Angular JS, React, Vue, Node.js
* Solid grasp of user-centric design, rapid prototyping, heuristic evaluation, usability and accessibility concerns
* Experience working with brand and/or design guidelines
* Experience with Typescript and static type checking methodologies
* Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban) with multiple teams
* Experience using TFS, Git, Bitbucket, Jira
* Experience with Data Visualization tools and libraries (Cognos, Tableau, Power BI)
* Experience building applications for ADA compliance
* Experience in web and mobile (iOS and Android) applications
* Experience with RESTful web services
* Experience working with brand and/or design guidelines
* Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions
* Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete designs
* Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Jenkins and other build tools
* Exposure to DevOps practices
* Exposure to Cloud architecture
* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Independent self-starter as well as a team player

Minimum Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field or six (6) years of experience in a directly related field required
* 6+ years hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge as a strong UI/UX Designer
* Expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JavaScript, front-end frameworks (Bootstrap), AJAX, JSON, jQuery, AngularJS, CSS preprocessors (SASS, LESS), responsive cross-browser and cross-platform design, mobile experience, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.), color theory, graphic design, mockups and prototyping, testing/ debugging and building from concept to deployment.
* Experience working in a Scrum environment using Jira
* Experience using Git/ Bitbucket

Education: High School/Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent

Experience: Minimum 6+ years

Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expenses

Travel: N/A

Local Preferred: Yes

Recruiter Name: Tarun Garg

Recruiter Phone: 877-884-8834 (Ext: 2188)

Equal Employment Opportunity