Accessibility Specialist, UX Engineering

Meet Our Team:

Join an active user experience team in creating an accessible platform and application environment for Pega customers and users. You will contribute by providing your unique experience as a screen reader user and by your deep knowledge of W3C WCAG guidelines to help make our products more inclusive. Our team is passionate about creating inclusive experiences for all users. We view this as critical to developing first-class software solutions. You will be an essential part of this goal.

Picture Yourself at Pega:

You will be joining Pega’s Accessibility Team to ensure that Pega’s products are built for compliance with applicable accessibility standards and legislation. As a team member, you will work closely with our design and engineering teams and be the point person driving accessibility best practices and solutions.

What You'll Do at Pega:

• Collaborate with our UX design, Engineering and Support teams to ensure that our out-of-the-box solutions and authoring tools meet accessibility and compliance standards
• Drive best practices through collaboration, training and documentation to optimize configuration and testing for accessibility across our platform and applications
• Innovate and drive product enhancements and priorities based on client and audit results and feedback
• Provide accessibility testing with various assistive technologies as required by our clients
• Partner with our support team to assess and resolve client accessibility-related issues
• Partner with our design and engineering teams to optimize our client experience when it comes to their goals around accessibility

Who You Are:

You will be successful in this role at Pega if you are a self-starter, independent worker, interested in learning new software and not afraid to engage and ask questions. You are a good communicator and comfortable talking to technical or business representatives within an organization. Also,

• You operate with a sense of urgency.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-oriented, and cross-functional environment.
• You are eager to learn and always up for a challenge.
• You are a self-starter and can recognize and initiate when there is a problem to be solved

What You've Accomplished:

• Minimum 2 to 4 years of experience in testing websites to ensure conformance to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, AAA, Section 508.
• 3+ years of experience using screen readers daily, such as JAWS, NVDA or VoiceOver
• IAAP, 508 Trusted Tester or other recognized certification
• Deep understanding of accessibility standards i.e. WCAG, APG and ARIA
• Good oral and written communication skills

Pega Offers You:

• Gartner and Forrester acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products in a massive emerging market
• Continuous learning and development opportunities
• An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
• Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company
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