Engineering Specialist - Digital Accessibility Quality Assurance

When you join Verizon

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What you'll be doing...

Verizon is looking for an Engineering Specialist - Digital Accessibility Quality Assurance to execute work in the newly established Digital Accessibility Team in Verizon Business Group’s (VBG’s) Digital Marketing organization. The successful candidate will have a strong orientation to detail and a passion for continuously improving digital accessibility. In this role, you will work closely with all levels of our organization, and amongst digital product owners (POs), functional subject matter experts (SMEs), designers and IT, in order to ensure we’re delivering accessible experiences for our stakeholders.

Responsibilities will include:

Running automated scans and completing manual assessments on web pages to identify and log accessibility issues, and suggest and prioritize fixes.

Staying up to date on modern web development practices and new versions of WCAG and other accessibility requirements and/or best practices.

Actively contributing in team ceremonies (stand ups, refinement meetings, sprint planning meetings, etc.).

Continuously identifying opportunities for accessibility improvements.

Acting as an accessibility evangelist, answering questions and advocating for accessibility best practices.

Helping design and development teams understand accessibility requirements, available tools, solutions and prioritization.

Reviewing accessibility requirements with product owners and business systems analysts that provide accessibility acceptance criteria that developers can use to develop components that meet WCAG 2.1 AA conformance and providing scope for quality assurance testing.

Building and maintaining relationships, credibility and trust with business, product and technical partners. Evaluating, defining, and when required, prototyping appropriate approaches for any proposed accessibility solution.

What we're looking for...

You’ll need to have:

Associate’s degree or two or more years of work experience.

Three or more years of relevant work experience.

Experience executing automated and manual software testing.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

A degree.

Experience executing automated and manual accessibility testing.

Experience using JAWS, NVDA, Keyboard Only.

Experience with Web Accessibility (WCAG) and Physical Accessibility (ADA) guidelines.

Experience logging technical issues in ticketing systems, such as Jira.

Experience with accessibility test planning.

Accessibility certification.

Experience in Software Development/Engineering practices, including Agile, DevOps and Cloud tools and methodologies.

Intermediate to advanced skill level using project management tools, office productivity, and data analytics tools. Advanced Proficiency in Google Suite and/or MS PowerPoint and Excel.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours
40

Equal Employment Opportunity

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Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefits, short term incentives, 401 (k) Savings Plan, stock incentive programs, paid time off, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

If you are hired into a Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, or New York work location, the compensation range for this position is between $70,000.00 and $130,000.00 based on a full-time schedule. The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.