Usability Test Specialist - Cambridge, UK

Location: Cambridge, UK
Salary: £30k–£35k, bonuses, and stock options
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, flexible hours
Start: ASAP

Red Gate is a highly successful software company, and usability is a high priority in our development process. In The Sunday Times Top 100 ’Best Small Companies to Work For’, we are the 16th fastest growing technology company in the UK, providing award-winning tools for developers, testers, and DBAs working with Microsoft technologies. World-wide, we have over 500,000 technology professionals using our software.

We are looking for a talented user experience professional to ensure our products are highly intuitive, usable and meet the needs of our customers. Your role will be to ensure the continual evaluation of our existing products so that we can better understand how to improve the user’s experience.

You will be an expert at moderating usability tests, and with your excellent communication skills, you’ll elicit the most value out of the participants. The ability to succinctly and clearly feed back the results into the development process will be a key skill in our fast paced environment.

Your skills and experience should include:
- A good undergraduate or postgraduate degree in HCI or other relevant discipline
- A passion for usability
- Relevant commercial experience
- A broad experience of usability issues

You will benefit from:
- Bonuses
- 25 days’ holiday
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- BUPA Healthcare
- BUPA Travel Insurance
- Stock Options
- Life Assurance
- Critical Illness Cover
- Income Protection
- A relaxed and professional environment
- Charitable Activity Day
- Free Parking
- Subsidised Gym Membership
- Childcare Vouchers

At this point, we will only consider people with a valid UK work permit

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