QA, Section 508 Accessibility and Technical Documentation Specialist
Key Skills for This Role
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Why this job exists
SPN Solutions has won a new contract to build a public-facing health reporting application for a federal public health agency. Members of the public and clinicians will use it to submit safety reports in English and Spanish. It is built on cloud services the agency already runs, by a small team in which every person owns their part.
What you will do
- Build and run the branching test matrix: every submitter type against every report scenario against every conditional field, on every build.
- Build and run the English/Spanish parity suite: the same tasks in both languages, comparing completion, validation, error text, confirmation and reading order.
- Run manual assistive-technology testing on every changed screen with JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver, plus keyboard-only traversal.
- Run automated accessibility scanning (axe DevTools Pro) in the pipeline and cross-device testing on BrowserStack.
- Prepare Accessibility Conformance Reports and remediation plans, and the Section 508 portion of compliance documentation.
- Run negative and role-based testing with at least one negative case per input and per branch.
- Classify defects accurately for the customer's severity determination. Never reclassify or hold back a defect to pass a threshold.
- Write the technical/administrator user guide, the operations and maintenance guide, architecture designs and process workflows.
- Edit every deliverable for accuracy, plain language and Section 508 conformance before release.
- Test the application's document-suggestion feature against a fixed test set and record its accuracy as a release gate.
What you need
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, technical communication or a related field and 5 years of software QA experience; 9 years of experience may substitute for the degree.
DHS Section 508 Trusted Tester certification, or IAAP WAS or CPACC, held at hire or earned within 90 days.
Hands-on manual testing with JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver against WCAG 2.1 AA.
Test automation with Playwright, Cypress or Selenium in a CI pipeline.
Technical writing samples: user guides, operations manuals or architecture documents.
Experience in at least one of: healthcare informatics, public health surveillance systems, healthcare data management, or healthcare-related IT.
Ability to obtain and keep a federal Public Trust determination.
What sets a candidate apart
Accessibility Conformance Reports on the ITI VPAT template or an agency 508 checklist.
Testing bilingual or multilingual applications.
ISTQB certification.
Federal acceptance testing against contract performance standards.
Benefits
- Pay is discussed with you directly when we speak. These are the benefits every full-time SPN employee receives.
- Medical and prescription coverage, dental and vision
- Short-term disability
- Life and accidental death insurance
- Competitive 401(k)
- 11 paid federal holidays
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick leave
- Parental leave
- Tuition and professional development assistance
Terms, and how to apply
- Full time, W-2, salaried (exempt), employed by SPN Solutions
- Target start: November 2026
- Hybrid: SPN's office in Fairfax, Virginia, and remote
- Core hours Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern
- Occasional travel to Atlanta, Georgia, for onboarding and program meetings, reimbursed
- You must obtain and keep a federal Public Trust determination. No security clearance is required
- Work is done on customer-furnished equipment
- Apply through the link with your resume. A recruiter reads every application and answers within two business days.
- SPN Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
- Keywords: QA Engineer, Quality Assurance, Section 508, Accessibility Tester, DHS Trusted Tester, IAAP WAS, CPACC, WCAG 2.1 AA, JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, axe DevTools, BrowserStack, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, test automation, Accessibility Conformance Report, VPAT, technical writer, user guide, operations manual, ISTQB, bilingual testing, healthcare IT, public health, Public Trust
About SPN Solutions
Christian-owned IT systems integrator and cybersecurity contractor serving federal, defense, state, local, education, and commercial clients.
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