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?

What Makes this a Unique Opportunity

Thomson Reuters participates in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), which creates the standards for the web, including accessibility standards. The Accessibility team participates in the WCAG working group (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), which is part of the W3C.

**About the Role**:
As a Accessibility Tester, you will:

- 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.
- Ensure that the 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 Senior Accessibility Tester if you have:

- BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 4+ years of testing experience in software development, web development or related field.
- 4+ 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.
- 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?**

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

- ** 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
- ** Wellbeing**: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- ** Culture**:Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- ** Learning & Development**:LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
- ** Social Impact**:Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
- ** Purpose Driven Work**:We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutio