Occupation AtlasICT usability tester
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5f50290d-f520-4a69-85c7-1390d2a4a8b6
ICT usability tester
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.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
ICRInvestigative · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.76
- C Conventional5.67
- R Realistic3.80
- A Artistic1.69
- E Enterprising1.57
- S Social1.53
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (17)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- address problems critically
- application usability
- assess users' interaction with ICT applications
- behavioural science
- conduct research interview
- create website wireframe
- execute ICT user research activities
- execute software tests
- human-computer interaction
- levels of software testing
- measure software usability
- provide software testing documentation
- replicate customer software issues
- report test findings
- test for behavioural patterns
- test for emotional patterns
- use experience map
Optional (30)
- AJAX
- Agile project management
- ICT debugging tools
- ICT project management methodologies
- JavaScript
- LDAP
- LINQ
- MDX
- N1QL
- PHP
- Process-based management
- SPARQL
- XQuery
- cognitive psychology
- conduct ICT code review
- debug software
- design user interface
- develop ICT test suite
- develop automated software tests
- lean project management
- manage schedule of tasks
- query languages
- resource description framework query language
- tools for ICT test automation
- unstructured data
- use markup languages
- use scripting programming
- visual presentation techniques
- web based collaborative platforms
- web programming
O*NET equivalents
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