QA Accessibility Tester

Company Description

About Arcadis:
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and
consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70
countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the
power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and
deliver more impact together.

Our Products Want to Say ‘Hi’!
TravelIQ is an internationally proven, white-label Advanced Traveller Information System (ATIS)
that provides real-time, multimodal trip planning to the public and keeps users informed with
advanced traveller information system on a secure cloud-based platform with multi-channel
flexibility.

Smart City Platform is an open technology framework allowing cities to connect their own existing
systems with our onboard tools and insight-driven data analytics, focused on outcomes for city
residents. Combining big data and predictive analytics to support improved decision-making, the
Smart City Platform is designed to connect stakeholders with the services, information, and insight
they need.

CurbIQ helps cities across the world address a similar challenge: understanding how their curb
space has been designated, what the exact regulations are, and when or where these regulations
apply. By digitizing curb side regulations, CurbIQ helps cities better understand how their curbs
are working today and provides a platform to improvise operations.

HotSpot integrated mobility platform simplifies commuting and makes it more efficient for
organisations to provide their customers, residents, or employees with intuitive travel solutions. By
digitising parking, transit, taxi, and merchant resources, users can easily track their travel
expenses, pay for parking tickets, schedule taxis, and pay for public transit all in one easy app.

Job Description

Do you want to make a real impact by ensuring digital content is accessible to everyone? At
Arcadis, we're looking for a QA Accessibility Tester to join our team and help us ensure that our
web and mobile content is inclusive and accessible for all users. This is a unique opportunity to
enhance the digital experience for millions of people.

As a QA Accessibility Tester, you will:
• Lead accessibility audits for both web and mobile platforms to ensure our digital content
meets and exceeds accessibility standards.
• Identify accessibility issues and collaborate closely with developers and UI/UX designers to
recommend effective fixes that enhance usability.
• Establish and refine testing processes, including the use of checklists, keyboard-only
testing, and assistive technology testing.
• Utilize tools like JAWS, Voiceover, Axe Pro Tool, WAVE, NVDA and Lighthouse to identify
and address accessibility issues.
• Verify the correct implementation of ARIA labels and attributes to improve usability for
screen readers.
• Document and develop detailed test plans and methodologies.
• Provide accessibility conformance report including VPAT and any other international
standard formats.
• Stay ahead of the latest accessibility standards, tools, and technologies.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of manual and automated quality assurance testing.
• Have 2-3 years of experience in accessibility testing, using both manual and automated
tools.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Possess a thorough understanding of WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 Level AA Standards, as well as
federal and state accessibility laws which includes ADA, AODA, Section 508, European
disability act Etc.
• Advanced knowledge in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and ARIA is expected.
• Can develop VPAT and provide comprehensive confirmation reports.
• Have knowledge of universal design principles and techniques.
• Nice to have any degree/certification in a related discipline.
• At least 4 years of test automation experience (WebDriver IO, Playwright, Selenium)
• The ability to work independently to plan, document and execute test scenarios
• SQL test script preparation & execution experience
• A passion and enthusiasm for software testing
• An interest and desire for continued learning
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
• An understanding of the various types of testing performed in Agile projects – e.g.
Exploratory, Risk-Based, Session-Based and Automation
• The ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Additional Information

Our values:
Integrity – We do what is right.
Partnerships – We work together.
Excellence – We pursue design excellence.
Innovation – We embrace ingenuity.
Community – We build community.

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