Senior Accessibility & QA Automation Test Engineer - Aretum - McLean, Virginia

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About Aretum

Aretum is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth are at the forefront.

Job Summary

The Senior Accessibility & QA Automation Test Engineer, is a hands-on test engineer responsible for ensuring enterprise-scale digital systems are functionally correct, usable, secure, performant, and fully accessible to all users, including individuals with disabilities. The Senior Accessibility & QA Automation Test Engineer operates independently, influences technical decisions, and raises the overall accessibility and quality maturity of Agile teams.

Due to the nature of our work as a federal consulting organization, employees may be expected to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and must adhere to applicable safeguarding and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities
• Perform manual and automated functional testing of application code, APIs, and integrated services
• Execute non-functional testing, including performance and load testing, to validate system stability and capacity
• Conduct manual and automated accessibility testing throughout the software development lifecycle
• Validate conformance with WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA requirements and applicable federal accessibility standards
• Perform screen reader and keyboard-only testing using JAWS and NVDA
• Execute automated accessibility scans using tools such as axe, pa11y, and ANDI, and validate results through manual testing
• Develop, execute, and maintain test plans, test cases, and test scripts aligned with user stories and acceptance criteria
• Integrate functional and accessibility t