Accessibility Tester

Job description

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

As an Accessibility Tester at Accenture, this professional should have a strong background in a technology field, such as Computer Science or Web Development, and is responsible for certifying that all project deliverables meet quality goals. This resource will be the subject matter expert on WCAG compliance and accessibility validation.

On collaborating with the Engineering team, defining and executing on a testing strategy using assistive technologies as well as providing feedback back to the team. This resource will ensure that all discoveries reported to the team are addressed and fixed accordingly to agreed on accessibility standards.

Beyond testing, the accessibility tester will be tasked with building awareness around accessibility issues and most common problems.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Assurance:

· Ensures that development processes are followed.
· Looks for improvement opportunities.

Quality Control:

· Creation of test plans and test cases to verify and validate project requirements.
· Integrated testing across browsers and environments (development, testing and production).
· Estimation and scheduling of testing efforts.
· Creation of automated reusable testing assets that meets industry standards.

Accessibility:

· Perform complete validation testing on a Web application, focusing on WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines.
· Use Assistive Technologies, such as screen reader software (NVDA, JAWS), and Accessibility test tools.
· Document identified issues and recommended potential solutions and best practices for remediation of accessibility violations.
· Identify, prioritize, and log bugs
· Communicate status of bug activity and ensure ETAs are met on/before time
· Must be able to perform work effectively in an agile environment and handle multiple test tasks and demands simultaneously.
· Accuracy, reliability, and excellent attention to detail
· Must be flexible and adaptable, with the ability to transition between various responsibilities, both technical and non-technical.
· Perform other duties as required, including making screenshots of the testing pages and giving code snippets of issues found when applicable.
· Reporting / Documentation - deliver results of accessibility audits and tests as well as participate in follow-up communication with clients
· Remediation - utilize development and technical skills to go into code and documents in order to resolve accessibility barriers.
· Work with internal development teams to create and maintain accessible content on company websites.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Qualifications:

·  5+ years performing test case management, working with developer teams, logging bugs in JIRA, Asana or similar tools.
·  3+ years of HTML, CSS, JavaScript experience
·  Knowledge of IT process improvement and various Quality Assurance standards.
·  Good understanding of cross browser/cross platforms compatibilities.
·  Excellent English communication skills
·  Experience running manual and/or automated tests.
·  Experience analyzing business requirements and performing different types of testing: functional, non-functional, end-to-end testing, GUI testing, usability and/or accessibility testing.
·  Experience testing in different environments including web, mobile and responsive sites.
·  Experience writing bug reports and providing objective feedback to software developers.
·  Ability to communicate findings to technical and non-technical colleagues.

Preferred:

·  Has working knowledge of the WCAG and requirements to get a web page to an A or AA level of compliance with the WCAG 2.1
·  Experience with accessibility audit and quality assurance tools and processes
·  Proficiency with Assistive Technologies such as NVDA, JAWS, or similar screen readers.
·  Experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) methodologies to ensure digital product adheres to QA strategies and conformance levels (WCAG 2.0, 2.1 level AA) within technical projects.
·  Create, document and manage test plans, test cases and scripts across multiple projects.
·  Creates and maintains testing scripts, standards, guidelines and playbooks for accessibility testing and development best-practices.