Lead 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?Come and join the Thomson Reuters Accessibility team as we grow and transform Thomson Reuters into a user focused, customer-obsessed organization.   We aren’t just changing the way customers engage with us, we are transforming and re-imagining our business. As a Lead Tester of Accessibility, you will be a trusted, respected, partner that works closely with Design professionals, Design leaders, Product Management and Engineering to support the accessibility testing of our products. You will contribute to a large, global portfolio of productivity applications for Legal, Tax and Corporate professionals. We promote an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged. 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 Lead Tester of Accessibility, you will: Own the end-to-end quality assurance of a large product portfolio, including overseeing the backlog of testing requests received and complete testing requests.
• Collaborate and communicate closely with key stakeholders in Design, Product Management, and Product Engineering to facilitate testing efforts throughout the product development lifecycle and ensure that accessibility is considered in the design, development, and maintenance of applications.
• Act as a thought leader in accessibility testing by making recommendations and influencing testing decisions based on data.
• Mentor accessibility testers.
• Create test plans and scripts and other accessibility testing documentation.
• Create training plans and execute accessibility training for the testing team.
• Perform quality audits and advise on opportunities to minimize quality errors.
• Lead by example in creating a positive, supportive team environment that encourages collaboration, innovation and respectful discussion.
• 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 Lead Tester of Accessibility if you have:

BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.

• pment or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in an accessibility related field.
• Understanding of WCAG 2.1 (AA) guidelines.
• Expert level understanding of assistive technologies and accessibility-related software including JAWS® and NVDA and automated testing tools.
• Demonstrated success facilitating testing efforts across multi-disciplinary teams
• Demonstrated success creating test plans and scripts
• Ability to influence and define process
• 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.
• Assistive Technology users strongly encouraged to apply.
   

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.

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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 combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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