Accessibility Tester
2 days ago
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
iCST
Full time
Role Title:Accessibility Tester
Required Skills:
Manual Testing, Accessibility Testing, Web Accessibility, ARIA tags, Screen Readers
Responsibilities:
- Validate front-end features for 508 compliance against Web Accessibility standards.
- Plan, prepare, and execute tests to verify system 508 compliance and document and report test results.
- Develop test plans, scripts, and scenarios and implement them with software test procedures.
- Participate in test planning meetings and test readiness reviews providing technical input.
- Test 508 accessibility on mobile devices (iOS + Android).
- Work with ARIA tags/labels and understand how they affect screen readers on web applications.
- Review project scope and identify impact for in-scope applications and business areas.
- Understand and follow project test strategy, including scope of testing, execution schedule, and dependencies.
- Identify and escalate risks and issues related to testing scope.
- Participate in project-specific testing activities as needed.
- Collaborate with test leads to define test scenarios applicable to project scope.
- Create test scenarios (detailed steps and expected behavior) and upload to test management tools.
- Ensure correct bi-directional traceability is established for linking test cases with business requirements.
- Identify and set up test data needed to support test case execution.
- Execute test cases and create defects for failed scenarios following project standards and testing best practices.
- Ensure correct traceability is established for linking defects with test cases.
- Escalate issues and risks to test leads and managers and provide remediation ideas.
- Communicate and interact with different stakeholders (development team, business/functional team, leadership) independently with minimal oversight.
Test Completion Report, Defect Report