OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking a position as UI/UX Designer in the competitive Information Technology industry, to utilize my skills and abilities that offer professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible.

SUMMARY

• A competent UI/UX Designer with 6+ years’ experience in UI Designing & Testing Web Applications in IT industry.
• Excellent understanding of UI/ UX Designing, UX Processes, Quality Assurance methodology and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in adopting Waterfall and Agile/SCRUM methodologies along with Test Driven Development
• Good experience in translating customer requirements into design specifications and ensured that the requirements translate into software solutions.
• Strong experience and understanding between UX, UI, HCI, IXD.
• Experience with Design Conceptualizing methods like ideas mapping & affinity diagrams, card sorting, Customer journey map and user decision path.
• Experience with alternate User Research Methods such as card sorting, role - playing workshop, shadowing and heuristics.
• Experience with creating Personas and conducting Focus Group Discussions.
• Test Execution as per the test Cases, Reporting of the Results, Identifying the Defects, Retesting the fixes.
• Experienced performing System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, UAT testing.
• Experienced is writing daily status reports / Weekly status report.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: SOAP UI, MS Test Manager, Team Foundation Server, irArthor InRule, Quality Center and Selenium IDE, Jira

Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 7, iOS

Designing Tools: Balsamiq, InVision, UXPin, Axure, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe After Effects

UX Techniques: User Research, Design Conceptualizing, Project Strategy, Persona, Focus Group Discussion, UX Analytical Research, lean UX Design

Application: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Access, Power BI, SAS

Methodologies: Agile(SCRUM), Waterfall, V&V

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to interface with business and end users for understanding requirements and user experience.
• Responsible for working with various teams in a strict Agile/SCRUM based environment.
• Responsible in conducting usability tests, heuristic evaluations and benchmarking analyses on apps.
• Responsible for building prototypes and wireframes for the team with better design visualization using various wireframing tools such as Sketch.
• Involved in designing the user experience interface UI/UX strategy, UI requirements, converting findings into UI designs.
• Work with senior UX researchers to create final visual designs based on research.
• Responsible to write clean, well-designed code and collaborate work with the team using HTML CSS, Bootstrap and responsive web designs.
• Experience with Design Conceptualizing methods like ideas mapping & affinity diagrams, card sorting, Customer journey map and user decision path.
• Experience with creating Personas and conducting Focus Group Discussions.
• Experience with UX Processes like Double Diamond and Sprint which helped to deliver a rapid prototype to the customers.
• Responsible for creating a web application where calculations happen dynamically based on user input using JavaScript.
• Developed multiple POC’s for finalizing the requirements before implementation using mock-up screens.

Environment: s: Balsamiq, UXPin, Photoshop, UX Research, UX Process, JIRA.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with various teams in a strict Agile/SCRUM based environment.
• Responsible is creating sketches, wireframes, and mocks to communicate user flows and interactions to engineer, designers and art directors.
• Responsible is creating and conducting user studies and UX flows.
• Researched context aware in smartphone, generated Persona and Scenario.
• Designed logo, all graphics for online activity and official website mockup.
• Responsible to produce detailed specifications in conjunction with Business Analysts.
• Responsible in driving UX vision, create UX workflows, run quick prototypes, and conduct usability testing.

Environment: s: Balsamiq, InVision, Agile/SCRUM, UX Research, UX Process, GIT.

Confidential

UI/UX Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible working in Agile based development cycle with a bi-weekly release schedule.
• Responsible in creating wireframes, prototypes using various tools like Balsamiq and InVision.
• Responsible is creating and conducting user studies and UX flows.
• Researched context aware in smartphone, generated Persona and Scenario.
• Designed logo, all graphics for online activity and official website mockup.
• Responsible for making Responsive Web Pages using Bootstrap and media queries.
• Developed the web app using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Bootstrap.
• Responsible in using GIT as the version control tool with JIRA as the project management.

Environment: Agile/SCRUM, Wireframing, Prototyping, UX Process, UX Flow, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Responsive Web Designs, GIT, JIRA.

Confidential

UI/UX Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with various teams in a strict Agile based environment.
• Responsible is creating sketches, wireframes, and mocks to communicate user flows and interactions to engineer, designers and art directors.
• Responsible to write clean, well-designed code and collaborate work with the team using HTML CSS and Bootstrap.
• Worked with QA Team on daily basis in fixing the reported defects.
• Responsible in working with the UAT team to help understand the new process and design.
• Worked closely with the end user for testing and training.

Environment: s: Agile, Wireframing, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Testing.

Confidential

Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in working in a traditional Waterfall based environment which involved releases once in 3 months.
• Involved in Test Case Review meetings with business analysts and developers.
• Wrote, managed & tested codes using HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL.
• Worked with the QA team to fix the reported defects.
• Created requirements Traceability matrix, Test cases for system Testing, Integration Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Involved in UAT by providing test data for users and by testing UAT defects in test environment before, the new code gets moved to UAT environment.

Environment: Waterfall, HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, Testing.