[Hiring] QA & Accessibility Lead @Fearless

Role Description

We are seeking a QA & Accessibility Lead as part of our Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services career path to support the modernization of a large-scale public-facing government website. This role will lead quality assurance and accessibility across the Drupal implementation, ensuring the solution is functional, reliable, accessible, and ready for production. You will own testing across design, development, content and data migration, and release while working closely with UX, engineering, content, DevOps, and customer stakeholders to integrate quality and accessibility throughout delivery. This is a fully remote role.

Your Responsibilities in this Role:

• Own accessibility strategy across design, development, migration, testing, and release.
• Perform and coordinate automated, manual, and assistive-technology accessibility testing of webpages, components, templates, and migrated content.
• Provide actionable accessibility remediation guidance to designers, developers, and content teams and validate completed fixes.
• Define accessibility checklists and in-editor automated checks supporting content-provider certification and ensure supporting training materials and documentation meet accessibility standards.
• Produce the Accessibility Audit and Testing Report and required conformance certification.
• Develop and execute test plans covering functional, integration, regression, responsive, and cross-browser testing of the Drupal implementation.
• Validate migrated content, files, links, redirects, metadata, relationships, and source-to-target accuracy across content types.
• Develop automated tests and integrate testing into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Track, prioritize, retest, and close defects in collaboration with engineering and product teams.
• Support UAT, production-readiness validation, deployment, and post-production stabilization testing.
• Document testing approaches, results, defects, accessibility findings, remediation status, and validation evidence.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of total relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience is required.
• At least 3 years supporting enterprise-wide website modernization or digital transformation initiatives, with that work occurring within the past 5 years.
• Participation in at least one government, higher education, or similarly regulated organization project.
• Involvement in the implementation or support of at least one Drupal solution hosted on AWS.
• Demonstrated leadership of digital/web accessibility and quality assurance for large-scale websites or digital applications.
• Deep knowledge and practical application of WCAG 2.1/2.2 Level A and AA accessibility standards.
• Proficiency with automated and manual accessibility testing methods and tools.
• Strong background conducting assistive-technology testing, including screen-reader and keyboard testing.
• Proven ability to identify accessibility barriers, provide actionable remediation guidance, and validate completed fixes.
• Strong background in web application QA and testing, including functional, integration, regression, responsive, and cross-browser testing.
• Demonstrated experience testing Drupal or comparable enterprise CMS implementations.
• Proficiency validating content and data migrations, including content, files, links, redirects, metadata, relationships, and source-to-target accuracy.
• Strong understanding of defect tracking and management, including documentation, prioritization, retesting, and closure.
• Proven ability to develop and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, validation procedures, and testing documentation.

Requirements

• IAAP CPACC, WAS, or CPWA certification (preferred).
• Proficiency testing with multiple screen-reader technologies and assistive-technology combinations (preferred).
• Background supporting accessibility within public-sector digital services (preferred).
• Accessibility experience within large-scale Drupal implementations (preferred).
• Experience developing and maintaining automated web tests (preferred).
• Strong background with Drupal-specific QA and testing (preferred).
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (preferred).
• Familiarity with API testing tools and techniques (preferred).
• Experience with visual regression testing (preferred).
• Background validating links, redirects, and SEO-related migration requirements (preferred).
• Experience performing QA for large-scale content and data migrations (preferred).
• Familiarity with Jira or comparable defect and work-management tools (preferred).

Benefits

• Flexible, life-friendly schedules.
• 100% coverage for our medical HSA plan + HSA contributions.
• Dental & vision covered 100% for you and your dependents.
• Competitive premiums for HMO/PPO and dependent coverage.
• 401(k) with 4% match & immediate vesting.
• Paid Parental Leave and 12 weeks paid FMLA.
• Generous PTO, 11 Federal Holidays, a Birthday Holiday, and Sick Leave.
• Up to 15 days for Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave.
• Education, wellness, and tech allowances.
• Referral bonus: $6K–$12K for each successful referral.
• Pet insurance & discount plans.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Legal support, life insurance, disability coverage.
• Performance-Based Bonuses.