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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 Junior Accessibility Tester, 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.
What Makes this a Unique Opportunity
Thomson Reuters participates in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), which creates the standards for the web, including accessibility standards. The Accessibility team participates in the WCAG working group (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), which is part of the W3C.
About the Role:
As a Junior Accessibility Tester, you will:
Conduct Accessibility testing on assigned products and report all defects pertaining to WCAG violations.
Demonstrate testing proficiency and meet productivity and quality benchmarks.
Demonstrates clear understanding of accessibility testing methods, tools and applications
Collaborate and communicate closely with key stakeholders in Design, Product Management, and Product Engineering to support testing efforts throughout the product development lifecycle.
Collaborate with the Testing Lead to guarantee on-time completion, precision, and alignment with expectations for all testing requests.
Demonstrate clear understanding of testing priorities.
Gain thorough knowledge on bug drafting and bug reporting tool.
Understand and implement the feedback received.
Ensure timely completion of assigned tasks including training and time tracking.
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.
Shift Timing: 12pm IST to 9pm IST
Work Mode: Hybrid
About You:
You're a fit for the role of Junior Accessibility Tester if you have:
BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
2+ years of experience in an accessibility related field.
Understanding of WCAG 2.1 (AA) guidelines.
Good level understanding of assistive technologies and accessibility-related software including JAWS® and NVDA and automated testing tools.
Knowledge of Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar for logging and tracking bugs.
Demonstrated success facilitating testing efforts across multi-disciplinary teams.
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.
Assistive Technology users strongly encouraged to apply.
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What’s in it For You?
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.
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, 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 Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive 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.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
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.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
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. 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.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.
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