Accessibility Specialist (With Manual Testing Exp)

About Us:
Solirius Consulting delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into  their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients' needs.

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 250 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; and we are actively working to expand on this.

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants' expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

About You:
You are enthusiastic, motivated, and have a genuine interest in accessibility and technology. You have a good background in auditing/QA processes, enjoy solving problems, analysing data, and tackling challenges in a structured way. As a self-starter, you bring excellent interpersonal and communication skills, along with a strong desire to deliver the best possible solutions for our clients.
About the Role:

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join us as an Accessibility Specialist. In this role, you will conduct accessibility testing, produce and present audit reports across key projects, ensuring that our digital services are inclusive and compliant with accessibility standards. You will work closely with stakeholders, developers, and testers, driving the integration of accessibility into Agile workflows and delivering high-quality, user-friendly solutions for our public and private sector clients. As part of your role, you will manually execute test cases, while also identifying, documenting, and tracking defects related to accessibility and usability to ensure they are resolved before release.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate as part of Agile teams, ensuring accessibility considerations are integrated into development and testing.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion are prioritised from the outset, creating services that are usable and accessible for everyone.
• Engage, plan and carry out accessibility audits, producing comprehensive reports for digital services to ensure compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA standards, including manual, automated, and assistive technology testing.
• Work with Leads to contribute to accessibility testing strategies, plans, and automation frameworks.
• Support best practices to standardise accessibility testing across organisations
• Act as the primary point of contact for accessibility-related queries on remediation and accessibility testing support
• Work closely with and learn from senior members of our team to develop your skills and knowledge.
• Manage and train team more junior members on accessibility
• Conduct training to increase awareness of accessibility, assistive technologies and testing including delivering in-person and online workshops, fostering a learning community
• Stay up to date with the latest accessibility standards, tools, and technologies to continuously improve testing processes, including AI accessibility tooling.
• Analysing test requirements, designing, and producing reusable test scripts.
• Executing test scripts from plans and accurately reporting where requirements are not being met.
• Identifying, documenting, and tracking defects to resolution while ensuring root cause analysis is conducted and preventive measures are implemented.
• Overcoming obstacles, such as working with the team on clarification of requirements or seeing bugs through to resolution to deliver quality testing on time.
• Awareness of the CI/CD pipeline and integration tools such as jenkins and github.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile methodologies

Skills and Experience Required:

• Degree or 3 years+ experience as an Accessibility Specialist and a genuine interest in accessibility and technology
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with team members and clients.
• Proven experience in accessibility testing, with a strong understanding of WCAG standards and best practices.
• Good knowledge of Equality Act 2010 and government legal requirements (PSBAR)
• Strong experience conducting accessibility testing, including manual testing and assistive technology tools such as screen readers (e.g., NVDA, JAWS), speech recognition tools (Dragon, Voice Control) Zoom tools (ZoomText, Apple Zoom) and other tools. 
• An ability to apply analytical skills to accessibility testing results and provide actionable remediation solutions
• Experience with writing and presenting accessibility audit findings to teams
• Proficiency in semi-automated accessibility tools such as Axe, WAVE, Lighthouse, or similar.
• Strong problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity, with a willingness to learn and adapt.
• Experience with training and upskilling teams on the basics of accessibility, testing and assistive technologies 
• A passion for creating accessible and inclusive digital experiences for all use
• Experience writing and publishing Accessibility Statements.
• Proven experience of Functional Testing: running and managing appropriate tests to ensure requirements are met.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary
• Private healthcare insurance
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Flexibility to work from home
• Up to 10 days allocated development training per year
• Generous discretionary bonus
• Statutory & Contributory pension
• Free gym membership
• Annual Away days
• Monthly company socials

Equality & Diversity:

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.