Quality Assurance Tester

Position Description

Responsibilities

• The Quality Assurance Tester evaluates digital products to ensure compliance with quality standards and requirements.
• The Quality Assurance Tester ensures compliance with digital accessibility regulations and requirements by performing the following duties and responsibilities:
  • Perform accessibility tests using evaluation tools, manual testing, and assistive technologies
  • Record results of accessibility tests

Qualifications

Required

Applicants for the Quality Assurance Tester role are required to have these qualifications:

• Knowledge of digital accessibility and disability inclusion
• Knowledge of regulations related to digital accessibility (e.g., Section 508, ADA)
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA requirements
• Knowledge of web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience using accessibility evaluation tools and frameworks (e.g., WAVE, Developer Tools, Accessibility Inspector)
• Experience using assistive technologies (e.g., VoiceOver, JAWS, Dragon Naturally Speaking, ZoomText)

Preferred

Applicants with the following qualifications will be preferred:

• Professional training in using assistive technologies
• Experience conducting usability tests that include participants with disabilities

Interview Questions

Screening

• Knowledge of digital accessibility and disability inclusion
  • Who benefits from accessibility?
  • How would you define inclusive and/or universal design? Can you provide an example? (Does not need to be web related)
  • What resources would you recommend to someone who wants to keep informed of the latest updates on accessibility and inclusive design?
• Experience using accessibility evaluation tools and frameworks (e.g., WAVE, Developer Tools, Accessibility Inspector)
  • How do you see accessibility fitting into your role in the organization?
  • How do you incorporate accessibility into your day to day activities? (Email, document creation, when presenting content, etc.). Give an overview of the process you go through for (insert example).
  • What processes and tools have you used to measure the accessibility of a product?
  • What manual testing techniques do you use to confirm a product is accessible and usable?

Interview Committee

Required

• Knowledge of regulations related to digital accessibility (e.g., Section 508, ADA)
  • Describe the difference between Section 504 and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
  • Describe the difference between Section 508 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA requirements
  • What is WCAG? What are the differences between A, AA, and AAA compliance?
  • What are the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines and what are some of the benefits of using these guidelines when creating an authoring tool?
• Knowledge of web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • Describe appropriate instances to use a link, versus a generic button, versus a submit button.
• Experience using accessibility evaluation tools and frameworks (e.g., WAVE, Developer Tools, Accessibility Inspector)
  • How do you see accessibility fitting into your role in the organization?
  • How do you incorporate accessibility into your day to day activities? (Email, document creation, when presenting content, etc.). Give an overview of the process you go through for (insert example).
  • What processes and tools have you used to measure the accessibility of a product?
  • What do you define as manual testing and how have you incorporated manual testing into the development process?
  • Describe an instance where an automated test would not flag a blatant accessibility error.
• Experience using assistive technologies (e.g., VoiceOver, JAWS, Dragon Naturally Speaking, ZoomText)
  • Explain your experience with assistive technology.
  • How do you test with a screen reader? Give a brief overview of some of the keyboard commands you use.
  • What’s your experience with mobile testing (e.g., Screen Reader, Bluetooth keyboard, etc.)?

Preferred

• Professional training in using assistive technologies
  • Provide an overview of the assistive technologies you’ve used and how you’ve used them for testing?
• Experience conducting usability tests that include participants with disabilities
  • How have you engaged users with disabilities in providing feedback throughout the development process?

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