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Job Title: Digital Accessibility Automation Engineer ;
Location: Houston, TX/ Chicago, IL
Duration: Long term Contract
Mode of Work: ONSITE/ HYBRID
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Job Description:
The Digital Accessibility Automation Engineer is responsible for advancing accessibility across digital products through engineering-led, scalable 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 our client-facing digital channels-including websites, mobile apps, and other digital platforms that serve as key customer touchpoints.
This role emphasizes accessibility automation at scale, including Axe Monitor transactional scripting, Selenium integration, and CI/CD enablement across enterprise digital platforms.
Key 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 (e.g., authentication, search, booking, checkout flows) executed by Axe Monitor.
- 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 risk 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.
Program Leadership & Strategy
- Lead execution of the digital accessibility roadmap, with a strong emphasis on automation-first enforcement.
- Translate accessibility goals into repeatable, automated validations that reduce manual testing effort and compliance risk.
- Coordinate automation milestones across Product, Engineering, and QA, aligning accessibility automation with release schedules.
- Monitor accessibility maturity using automation-driven KPIs (coverage, regressions prevented, time-to-fix).
Hands-On Accessibility Expertise
- Conduct targeted manual accessibility testing to:
- Validate automated findings
- Cover gaps automation cannot detect (cognitive, usability, AT behavior)
- Evaluate experiences against WCAG 2.2 AA, ADA, Section 508, EAA, using assistive technologies as needed.
- Provide engineering-ready remediation guidance, including code-level recommendations.
- Validate fixes via automated reruns and regression testing prior to release.
Collaboration & Enablement
- Partner with Engineering, test, and DevOps to:
- Embed accessibility automation into existing pipelines
- Align functional and accessibility test strategies
- Writing accessibility-friendly UI code
- Fixing issues efficiently
- Act as a technical liaison with Deque and other tooling partners.
Governance & Compliance
- Ensure compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA and EAA through continuous automated monitoring.
- Accessibility test patterns
- CI/CD accessibility gates
- Support vendor and third-party evaluations by assessing automation readiness and accessibility risk.
Reporting & Insight
- Produce automation-driven reporting:
- Accessibility coverage by product
- Regressions caught pre-release
- Trends over time from Axe Monitor
- Communicate results clearly to engineering leaders and executives, focusing on risk reduction and velocity gains.
Must-Have Skills
- 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 (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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