Accessibility Test Delivery Lead

Description:

You’re an Accessibility Champion: You’ll continually foster an environment of excellence among the accessibility testing specialists and will be dedicated to ensuring good stakeholder management and quality of work.

You Communicate with Confidence: You have excellent written and oral communication skills. You use your powers of communication and consultation to speak about accessibility with authority. Your solid interpersonal skills are a must for collaborating with diverse stakeholders.

You’re a Team Player: When you think of teamwork, you think partnership. As a team leader, you’re focused and goal oriented, ready to pick up and pitch in where you can help, always advocating for accessibility best practices!

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Reporting to the VP of Web Accessibility under the day to day management of the Director of Web Accessibility, you will manage the day-to-day operations of the ATS team of testers and help drive continuous improvement of accessibility by collaborating with DAO leadership to strengthen business operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
 

• Manage intake requests for accessibility testing.
• Estimate completion turnaround times and manage workload with adequate forecasting.
• Assign work and track tester utilization.
• Set-up test plans for handoff to the testers, obtain access info, and work with site stakeholders to clear any access blockages.
• Prepare test plan from inventories for annual audit testing activity.
• Maintain accurate testing logs and ensure defect statuses are regularly updated.
• Schedule results review sessions to provide accessibility analysis and feedback with developers and the Director of Web Accessibility to help solution defects.
• Track testing statuses and originate comprehensive data reports and dashboards.
• Possess the ability to visually identify accessibility issues in designs, layouts, and wireframes.
• Possess the ability to execute automated and manual testing and provide meaningful feedback.
• When necessary, execute accessibility validation testing on remediated defects.
• Ensure compliance with accessibility policies and regulations (WCAG 2.2 AA, ADA, and Prudential specific requirements) and communicate these in common language.
   

EXPERIENCE/REQUIREMENTS:
 

• Several years of experience serving as an accessibility lead (project management a plus)
• Extensive understanding of WCAG 2.2 AA, WAI-ARIA, and ADA
• Experience with assistive technologies (JAWS, NVDA, keyboard, etc.)
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JAVA, and JavaScript
• CPACC, WAS, ADS, CPWA, Trusted Tester Certification a plus.
• Great communicator with the ability to build relationships between team members.
• Highly motivated, detail oriented, self-starter with problem-solving skills