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As a Senior Accessibility Tester, your role involves ensuring the quality assurance of assigned products for internal supervision of quality assurance. You will oversee the backlog of testing requests received and complete testing requests by performing accessibility testing on assigned products and report defects. Additionally, you will be responsible for mentoring testers, helping develop test plans and scripts, create documentation, and make recommendations based on themes and insights gathered via products tested and reporting insights. To be effective in this role, you must have an understanding of accessibility and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), strong working knowledge of assistive technology, automated testing tools, and demonstrated experience in accessibility testing.
- Contribute to the end-to-end quality assurance of a large product portfolio, including overseeing the backlog of testing requests received and complete testing requests
- Collaborate and communicate closely with key stakeholders in Design, Product Management, and Product Engineering to facilitate testing efforts throughout the product development lifecycle
- Collaborate with the Testing Lead to guarantee on-time completion, precision, and alignment with expectations for all testing requests
- Act as a thought leader in accessibility testing by making recommendations and influencing testing decisions based on data
- Mentor accessibility testers
- Contribute to creating test plans and scripts and other accessibility testing documentation
- Partner with the Accessibility Test Lead to create training plans and execute accessibility training for the testing team
- Perform quality audits and advise on opportunities to minimize quality errors
- Demonstrate proficiency in products of high complexity with an ability to operate independently without extensive direction
- Lead by example in creating a positive, supportive team environment that encourages collaboration, innovation and respectful discussion
- Stay abreast of evolving accessibility standards and trends in the industry
- BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience
- 5+ years of testing experience in software development, web development or related field
- 3+ years of experience in an accessibility related field
- Understanding of WCAG 2.1 (AA) guidelines
- Expert level understanding of assistive technologies and accessibility-related software including JAWS and NVDA and automated testing tools
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar for logging and tracking bugs
- Demonstrated success facilitating testing efforts across multi-disciplinary teams
- Demonstrated success creating test plans and scripts
- Ability to influence and define process
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience interfacing with high level stakeholders
- International projects with top brands
- Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
- Healthcare benefits
- Employee financial programs
- Paid time off and sick leave
- Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
- Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
- Global career opportunities
- Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
- EPAM Employee Groups
- Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn