Frontend Developer

**Job Title**: UX Designer

**Location**: Remote

**Job Type**: Freelancing

**Introduction**:

We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented UX Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong portfolio of successful UX and other technical projects and will be responsible for designing the overall functionality of the product and ensuring a great user experience.

**Responsibilities**:

– Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.

– Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.

– Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

– Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.

– Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.

– Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.

– Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

– Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas.

**Qualifications**:

– Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.

– Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.

– Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.

– Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.

– A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.

– Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.

– Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.

– A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.

– Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.

**Benefits**:

– Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

– Opportunities for professional development and career growth.

– Flexible working hours, including provisions for remote work.

– A creative and inclusive work environment.

We are looking for a qualified WordPress Front-end developer to join our IT team. You will be responsible for building the ‘client-side’ of our web applications. You should be able to translate our company and customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications.

• WordPress front-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery to create user-friendly web pages

• Experience or in-depth knowledge about the theme customization

• Experience in implementing basic security for websites & plugin understanding

• Maintain and improve website

• Optimize applications for maximum speed

• Design mobile-based features

• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve the usability

• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers

• Write functional requirement documents and guides

• Create quality mockups and prototypes

• Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting

• Ensure high-quality graphic standards and brand consistency

• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
  
  

• Proven work experience as a Front-end developer

• Hands-on experience with markup languages

• Experience with WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, SASS, and jQuery

• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging

• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.

• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)

• Understanding of layout aesthetics

• Knowledge of SEO principles would be the cherry on the cake!

Parikshram is a Bangalore based tech startup company, building the world's first career success platform for QA-Testing professionals around the world. Currently running through the social media channels with the name of “Software Testing Studio" (soon to be renamed as Parikshram), it has an active user base of ~0.2 million testing professionals and focuses on recruitment, upskilling and community building. The company is growing at a rapid pace and is hiring aggressively.

• 2+ years experience in WordPress CMS Installation, theme customizations.
• Should possess strong knowledge of SEO, Secure sites, Wordpress, Web Design Good knowledge of WordPress development and life cycle (theme hierarchy, plugins, etc
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development. Experience in front-end technologies like HTML5,CSS3,Bootstrap4,JavaScript,PHP.
• Basic Knowledge of Core PHP, MySQL Database.
• Experience in designing and developing responsive design websites.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages. Payment Gateway integration for WooCommerce (eg: Paypal, Razorpay, etc).

Previous experience as a UI Engineer.

Must have hands-on knowledge of web 2.0, including HTML5, CSS3
Must have hands-on knowledge of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as SASS/LESS
Must have hands-on knowledge in JavaScript frameworks like Object Oriented JS, Typescript (ECMAScript 6)
Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
Good understanding of REST API Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Working knowledge of design specs (style guide) tools like Zeplin, Invision etc.