Position: Digital Accessibility Engineer II Location: Chicago, Illinois
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 176618 Job Overview: The Automation Engineer II is responsible for advancing accessibility across digital products through scalable engineering-led automation solutions. This role focuses on embedding accessibility validation into automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous monitoring, early defect detection, and regression prevention across client-facing digital channels, including websites, mobile apps, and other digital platforms that serve as key customer touchpoints.
Responsibilities: - Partner with design, product, and engineering teams to ensure accessibility is built into digital experiences from ideation through delivery.
- Provide technical expertise on accessible implementation patterns using semantic HTML and WAI-ARIA.
- Conduct accessibility testing using automated and targeted manual approaches aligned to WCAG 2.2.
- Design, implement, and maintain accessibility automation at scale using Deque Axe Monitor.
- Script and execute transactional accessibility test scripts for flows such as authentication, search, booking, and checkout.
- Integrate automated accessibility checks into Selenium-based automation frameworks.
- Embed accessibility validation into CI/CD pipelines to support shift-left and continuous testing strategies.
- Monitor accessibility trends, regressions, and risks across applications and environments using automated reporting and dashboards.
- Analyze automated scan results to distinguish true accessibility defects from false positives.
- Partner with engineering and test teams to troubleshoot automation failures and guide remediation.
- Maintain reusable, reliable automation scripts and frameworks that scale across products and teams.
- Clearly communicate technical findings and recommendations to engineering, test, and product stakeholders.
Qualifications: - 5+ years of experience in digital accessibility with a strong automation and engineering focus.
- Expert knowledge of WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 and WAI-ARIA, including deep understanding of automatable success criteria.
- Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including modern SPA behavior.
- Hands-on experience with Deque Axe Monitor, including configuration, execution, and maintenance of transactional scripts.
- Strong experience with Deque Axe DevTools for rule validation, debugging, and pre-Monitor testing.
- Proven experience integrating accessibility automation into Selenium-based test frameworks.
- Ability to write, maintain, and troubleshoot transactional automation scripts executed at scale.
- Experience integrating accessibility automation into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
- Strong debugging skills related to flaky automation selectors, timing issues, and dynamic content.
- Experience working with version control systems like Git and enterprise automation practices.
- Excellent technical communication skills with engineering and test teams.
- Must be local to Houston or Chicago and willing to work in a hybrid environment.
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