Junior Accessibility Tester

**Junior **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 Junior Accessibility Tester, you will:

- Conduct Accessibility testing on assigned products and report all defects pertaining to WCAG violations.
- Demonstrate testing proficiency and meet productivity and quality benchmarks.
- 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 clear understanding of testing priorities.
- Gain thorough knowledge on bug drafting and bug reporting tool.
- Understand and implement the feedback received.
- Ensure timely completion of assigned tasks including training and time tracking.
- 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 Junior Accessibility Tester if you have:

- BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 2+ years of experience in an accessibility related field.
- Understanding of WCAG 2.1 (AA) guidelines.
- Good 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.
- 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 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.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combi