SENIOR ACCESSIBILITY COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST

HASpaces IT & Hospitality (P) Ltd
2nd Floor, Pamba, Technopark Phase 1 Campus , 695581
https://www.haspaces.com
Senior Accessibility Compliance Specialist
Closing Date:22,Nov 2025
Job Published:12,Nov 2025
Contact Email:[email protected]
Job Summary:
The Senior Accessibility Compliance Specialist will be responsible for evaluating accessibility compliance as necessary based on the applicable provincial and federal compliance laws for all Teranet applications. The role involves close collaboration with development, design, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver high quality and accurate compliance evaluations as well as reporting in a fast-paced environment. This role will support multiple
Teranet lines of business by process guidance, design / construction / implementation consultations / recommendations and ongoing operations and maintenance of accessible data, information technology solutions in accordance with regulatory and WCAG compliance. This role requires working with established processes,
effective test planning, execution, automation, and ongoing process improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Works under broad guidance based on the interpretation of established accessibility compliance practices. Consults with peer SMEs, Developers and Analysts to identify, analyze, and document violations and inconsistencies in software applications. Reviews all aspects of software changes ensuring conformance to Teranet standards and regulatory compliance. Designs, executes and maintains test cases for functional and non-functional testing. Validates accuracy and integrity of test results and reports on testing progress. Develop test plans and provide testing estimates. Contribute to evolution and growth of the accessibility compliance practices
Perform accessibility tests using evaluation tools, and assistive technologies as needed
Perform manual testing as needed
Records results of all testing activities
Provides detailed reporting as needed
Accountable for estimations shared, quality of the test conducted and reporting.
Contribute and evolve testing strategy to measure the impact on new systems, enhancements to existing systems or the impact system releases have on the production environment. The criteria must be established in conjunction with provincial and federal regulations as applicable.
Facilitate requirements reviews as needed with SMEs and project’s stakeholders
Identify test conditions that require data and develop clear data requirements
Design, develop and maintain a set of test cases for each application evaluated.
These test cases will be used to complete any regression testing which may be required. The test cases will be continually adjusted to reflect product or regulatory compliance changes.
Develop thorough domain knowledge of the products to be able to develop and/or review of test cases and test strategies
Anticipate problems and take corrective action, escalation as needed to resolve and achieve commitments
Work closely with SMEs, developers and analysts to reproduce and isolate problems as well as provide viable solution recommendations to the accessibility challenge at hand
Architect, design, develop and maintain automation test suite.
Work Closely with specialized services team automation developers to extend or review automation.
Conduct effectiveness evaluation periodically and share results.
Review of any problem tickets, which may be reported by users to determine nature of problem and possible cause
Design, create, and implement manual and automated test cases
Execute manual and automated test cases, recording all results and logging all defects
Create and maintain automation scripts (Playwright/PowerShell/SOAPUI)
Qualifications:
Expert knowledge of WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 AA guidelines and requirements
Expert Knowledge of WAI-ARIA authoring guidelines and best practices
Expert knowledge of AARM checkpoints
Expert Knowledge of PDF and web accessibility compliance evaluation techniques
Proven experience working with accessible design best practices
Proven experience working with web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Proven expertise using accessibility evaluation tools and frameworks (e.g., Axe, MS Accessibility Insights, WAVE, Developer Tools, Figma, Adobe Acrobat Pro etc)
Proven expertise using assistive technologies (e.g., JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver etc)
Proven Experience with Single Page Application testing (e.g., Angular, React etc)
Proven expertise in testing Web Applications and Web Services
Proven experience in creating and maintaining Automation scripts using PLAYWRIGHT / POWERSHELL / SOAPUI
Proven experience in programming or scripting language (JavaScript, Java, Groovy Script, C#)
Proven experience in functional and non-functional testing
Proven experience in working in a deadline driven environment
Sound Experience in the Test Life Cycle and how it fits the SDLC
Sound Experience in testing methodologies and techniques (Waterfall, Agile)
Sound Experience with standard QA processes and tools (e.g., Jira, ALM QC etc)
Sound Experience in risk-based testing
Working knowledge of database design, SQL and relational database systems
Experience in writing PL-SQL queries
Knowledge of Client / Server and Object-Oriented architecture
Strong business focus
Organized and methodical approach with good attention to detail
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Analytical ability together with strong problem-solving skills
Ability to work under own initiative and with minimal supervision
Ability to produce quality reports on test results, defects and testing progress
Must be a team player and work well under tight deadlines
Experience
:
Degree/ Diploma in Computer Science or Equivalent,
relating to accessibility or specific IT technologies (web, graphic design, applications, information, tools) or a related discipline
Professional accessibility training or certification(CPACC, WAS, CPWA, ADS, CPABE, ISTQB)
8+ years of sound experience as an accessibility compliance specialist.
5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance with primary focus on accessibility compliance.
3+ years of experience working with WCAG / AODA / AMA evaluations
2+ years of experience working in an Agile environment.