Do you have a keen eye for user centred design and experience developing excellent client apps? Looking for a great team working on a fantastic app?

The Open Microscopy Environment Consortium (OME) is seeking to create a team of Technical Support professionals with a focus on user experience, innovation, QA and training for an exciting phase of development and integration. We have lots of great functionality, but we, and our community of thousands of users need more. The OME Support Team will collect and integrate feedback from our local and worldwide users; develop and maintain great documentation; improve the regular testing of our developed software; visit remote sites and help them use and integrate OME’s tools.  Are you ready for this challenge?

We work hard, have a great time, and deliver unique, world-leading applications that are changing the way bioscience works. We are also now taking on the challenge of large clinical datasets. With expansion comes an increased focus on the user experience and we need your help!

Our applications are complex and improving usability is a priority. OME builds open source tools for managing large biological datasets using plug-in libraries and client-server architectures. Think you have the usability expertise and technical skills to help us generate new ideas and perfect our applications?

We value collaboration, and thrive on creativity and well-designed code. We passionately follow open source development and licensing-- we make major contributions to Bio-Formats and OMERO software applications that are installed in thousands of labs around the world. We are proud of our commitment to an open source philosophy.

Successful applicants will interact closely with researchers and software developers based in Scotland, Germany, Italy, and the USA. For more information, see http://openmicroscopy.org.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a creative, highly interactive and agile innovation process;
• Collaborate with external project teams with involvement of other software developers, project manager, usability specialists and other domain experts;
• Visit and help support research labs in the UK and on the Continent;
• Participate in the entire life cycle of our applications:
                        - Generation of new feature ideas for prototyping;
                        - Determine requirements and specification for new features;
                        - Rapid prototyping of new functionality;
                        - Development, testing and deployment;
• Develop and implement training programme for a global user-base;
• Document test artifacts (plan, cases) and execute test cases;
• Participate in agile meetings helping to drive quality for a user driven content application platform;
• Help form and follow quality procedures and test standards, execute manual tests for multiple software builds within scheduled releases;
• Proactively monitor the health and visibility of the QA effort for each release to assist the development process and goals of the release;
• Act as an advocate for the end users.

Requirements:

• Experience working on a multi-disciplinary team;
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills;
• Strong collaborative skills with an eye towards efficiency and creativity;
• Facility to manage several different scale projects simultaneously, delivering high quality on time;
• A strong design sense and understanding of usability concerns.

Pluses:

• UI engineering or front-end web development experience
• Experience building software collaboratively using a distributed revision control system such as Git, SVN, or Mercurial;
• Documentation writing and implementation of training;
• Web or rich client design and/or coding
• Knowledge of agile and software development process.

Additional Information:

These are full-time positions, in the UK (Dundee, Scotland). Appointment is to commence during or after December 2011, for a period of three years. Salary range is dependent upon experience.  An appointment may be considered at Grade 8 (£36,862 - £44,016) if the selected candidate’s skill set exceeds that required for the post at Grade 7.  

How to Apply:

To apply on-line please visit: www.dundee.ac.uk/jobs.  If you are unable to apply on-line please contact Human Resources on (01382) 386209 (answering machine) for an application pack.  Please quote reference number LS0119.  Closing date: 6 January 2012.

The University of Dundee is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096.