Job Description:

Do you want to improve the inclusiveness and accessibility of web sites and mobile applications for all Fidelity customers?

The team

As a member of our Digital Quality Engineering team, you’ll partner with product and platform owners, developers, design system teams, designers, content strategists to integrate Accessibility and Inclusion into digital experiences. You’ll also help to develop tools, training, checklists, process and resources that empower teams to address Accessibility themselves.

Our Digital Quality Engineering team is part of Fidelity’s Workplace Investing business unit supporting over 30 million Fidelity customers.

The Value You Deliver:

• Partner with software development teams to test digital experiences for accessibility compliance.
• Help software engineers and non-technical business leads to understand accessibility success criteria
• Teach others on how to best fix issues and implement accessibility processes and methodologies.
• Help define and implement Accessibility Test Strategy across our digital products.
• Participate in strategic projects to forward Digital Accessibility and Inclusion including helping to evolve Fidelity’s suite of in-house testing tools, our A11y intranet site, a framework agnostic pattern library, user research with customers with disabilities, and Accessibility & Digital Inclusion hackathons.

The Expertise You Have:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years’ experience in digital accessibility testing and development
• Understanding of Section 508, WCAG 2.1, WAI-ARIA, HTML5 and Web Standards
• Expertise in testing web and mobile applications, PDF, and video content accessible
• Experience coaching and mentoring accessibility novices and working with them to resolve issues
• Expertise in Functional and Automated Testing with automation tools (Selenium OR similar tool using Java)
• Understanding of how people with disabilities use assistive technologies
• Proven experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams
• Nice to have
  • IAAP CPACC certification
  • IAAP WAS certification

The Skills You Bring:

• Strong accessibility, functional and automated testing skills
• Understanding of assistive technologies (JAWS, NVDA, Voiceover, TalkBack, ZoomText, Dragon Naturally Speaking for evaluating experiences)
• Passion for advocating for users of all abilities and crafting phenomenal user experiences
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and adapt to their changing needs
• Willingness to question how we can do things better
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with enterprise monitoring solutions for web and pdf

Benefits Developed for You

From the little things that make every day better to those big-picture, life-changing tools. That’s exactly what you’ll get at Fidelity. We have an amazing package of benefits and programs designed to help you thrive in Ireland – both in and outside of work.

Retirement Savings

• 100% company-paid pension
• Ranging 5-24% based on age/service

Healthcare

• 100% company-paid healthcare
• Includes coverage for you, your spouse/partner and eligible dependents

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Our employee-run networks are at the heart of who we are. They span a wide range of distinct and vibrant areas of interest — each one grounded in mutual respect, driven by knowledge sharing, and open to all associates – empowering everyone to bring their whole selves to work.

• Asian Employee Resource Group
• Aspire – Latinx and Black Fidelity Associates
• Fidelity Pride (LGBTQ+)
• Women’s Leadership Group
• Fidelity Enable – Building Inclusive Work Environments
• Women in Technology Special Interest Group
• Raise – Working Parents & Caregivers

Flexible Schedules

• Provides options to meet changing work-life needs.
• Part-time opportunities.
• Remote work options.
• Compressed working week.

Referral Program

• Earn a bonus for helping to bring top talent to Fidelity Ireland.