From ICT accessibility tester to ICT usability tester
16 of the 17 essential skills of a ICT usability tester are already essential for a ICT accessibility tester — about 94% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from ICT accessibility tester in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 16
- skills carry over
- 1
- would be new
- 94%
- of the target job covered
- 17
- essential skills of a ICT usability tester
What a ICT usability tester does
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.
What carries over
16 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- address problems critically
- application usability
- assess users' interaction with ICT applications
- behavioural science
- conduct research interview
- 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
What would be new
1 skillsEssential for a ICT usability tester and not for a ICT accessibility tester. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
← ICT accessibility testerICT usability tester →The other way round
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How far are you from being a ICT usability tester?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.