Lead Tester, Accessibility

Are you a curious, smart, self-driven experienced tester who has a passion for accessibility and loves working in collaboration to deliver moments of delight for customers? Are you driven to create inclusive product experiences for customers and users where everyone can be at their best and thrive? Are you excited by the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into simple elegant solutions that exceed customer’s needs and expectations?

Come and join the Thomson Reuters Accessibility team as we grow and transform Thomson Reuters into a user focused, customer-obsessed organization. We aren’t just changing the way customers engage with us, we are transforming and re-imagining our business. As a Lead Tester of Accessibility, you will be a trusted, respected, partner that works closely with Design professionals, Design leaders, Product Management and Engineering to support the accessibility testing of our products. You will contribute to a large, global portfolio of productivity applications for Legal, Tax and Corporate professionals. We promote an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged.

About the Role:

As a Lead Tester of Accessibility, you will:

Own the end-to-end quality assurance of a large product portfolio, including overseeing the backlog of testing requests received and complete testing requests.

Collaborate and communicate closely with key stakeholders in Design, Product Management, and Product Engineering to facilitate testing efforts throughout the product development lifecycle and ensure that accessibility is considered in the design, development, and maintenance of applications.

Act as a thought leader in accessibility testing by making recommendations and influencing testing decisions based on data.

Mentor accessibility testers.

Create test plans and scripts and other accessibility testing documentation.

Create training plans and execute accessibility training for the testing team.

Perform quality audits and advise on opportunities to minimize quality errors.

Assess the effectiveness of testing methods, tools and applications and suggest enhancements.

Partner with Accessibility Managers for resource estimation, talent retention and performance management.

Lead by example in creating a positive, supportive team environment that encourages collaboration, innovation and respectful discussion.
Ensure that the Thomson Reuter's accessibility policy and guidelines are followed.
Stay abreast of evolving accessibility standards and trends in the industry.
Continuously develop skills and knowledge in the field of accessibility testing.

About You:

You're a fit for the role of Lead Tester of Accessibility if you have:

BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.

10+ years of testing experience in software development, web development or related field.

7+ years of experience in an accessibility related field.

Understanding of WCAG 2.1 (AA) guidelines.

Expert level understanding of assistive technologies and accessibility-related software including JAWS® and NVDA and automated testing tools.

Demonstrated success facilitating testing efforts across multi-disciplinary teams

Demonstrated success creating test plans and scripts

Ability to influence and define process

Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience interfacing with high level stakeholders.

Strong ability to influence and be able to effectively deal with ambiguous situations and make decisions.

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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Lead Accessibility Tester

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