Accessibility Tester

Accessibility Tester

Are you a curious, smart, self-driven experienced tester who has a passion for accessibility and loves working in collaboration to deliver moments of delight for customers? Are you driven to create inclusive product experiences for customers and users where everyone can be at their best and thrive?  Are you excited by the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into simple elegant solutions that exceed customer’s needs and expectations?  

About the Role: 

As an Accessibility Tester, you will: 

• Collaborate and communicate closely with key stakeholders in Design, Product Management, and Product Engineering to support 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.  
•  Demonstrate proficiency in products of high complexity with an ability to operate independently without extensive direction. 
• Maintain high quality and productivity against the team average consistently. 
• Act as backup to Lead Tester in the designated PODs. 
• Participate in creating and maintaining process documentation in partnership with subject matter experts. 
• Suggest process improvement ideas, provide feedback on testing tools, applications, and process. 
• Contribute to the success of organizational initiatives by driving them at team level. 
• Seek and share candid feedback. 
• Lead by example in creating a positive, supportive team environment that encourages collaboration, innovation and respectful discussion. 
• Ensure that Thomson Reuter’s accessibility policy and guidelines are followed. 
• Stay abreast of evolving accessibility standards and trends in the industry.  
• Continuously develop skills and knowledge in the field of accessibility testing. 

About You: 

You're a fit for the role of Accessibility Tester if you have: 

• 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 processes. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience interfacing with high level stakeholders. 
• Strong ability to influence and be able to effectively deal with ambiguous situations and make decisions. 

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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Experience Level

Mid Level