Sr Accessibility Analyst

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa Accessibility seeks a Senior Accessibility Analyst with experience in website/app and mobile web testing, plus familiarity with document, and native mobile testing & analysis. This role will consult with teams working to make accessible internal and consumer-facing payment tools and applications. The position provides accessibility support for product development teams and will test, solve, and consult on accessibility issues at all stages of the lifecycle using the company-wide internal standard for compliance, the Visa Global Accessibility Requirements (VGAR).

The ideal candidate thrives in a work environment that requires independent problem-solving skills, self-direction, and innovative thinking coupled with an aptitude and affinity for team collaboration and open communication. This individual is both highly analytical as well as highly creative, and consistently demonstrates strong design, writing and presentation skills. This individual actively fosters collaboration both inside and outside the team, promotes inclusive experiences, and can juggle supporting multiple projects while delivering thorough and skilled work on all of them. And ideal candidate also exercises independent judgment balanced with input from colleagues and direction from supervisor to deliver accessible solutions.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Relocation assistance is not available for this role.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced
Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)


Preferred Qualifications

• 4 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Demonstrated experience in digital accessibility analysis, design reviews, coaching teams in office hours, and testing as well as working with teams to implement accessible resolutions to existing issues.

• Experience in WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2, Section 508, ADA, other accessibility compliance laws and standards.
• Experience collaborating to help teams evolve from no accessibility knowledge to strong, sustained accessibility built into their structure, process, culture, and products.
• Proficiency using common accessibility testing tools, as well as assistive technology such as JAWS, NVDA, Talkback & Voiceover screen readers. Ability to debug issues with AT, browsers, operating systems and code a plus.
• Experience with web and native mobile accessibility: ARIA, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, iOS, and Android development.
• Passion for making websites and applications accessible to all users, with connection to a disability community a desirable.
• Thorough, methodical, and creative with strong attention to detail.
• Skilled in time management as well as working independently to find answers to questions with minimal direction from supervisor.
• Strong verbal and written communication, problem solving, customer service and interpersonal skills. Must be able to communicate clearly and build rapport with others.
• Fluent in English with ability to understand and easily be understood when communicating.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle, as well as the technical and business challenges that come with launching a product and releasing features.
• Understanding of user experience (UX) design techniques and principals involved in the production of prototypes and wireframes.
• A team player who is happy sharing credit and looks to succeed by raising up one’s colleagues, putting the success of the team ahead of personal gain.
• Proven ability to thrive in a virtual team environment
• Experience working with complex business and functional requirements.
• Experience in Dev, QA, or technical/management consulting a plus

Additional Information

Work Authorization: Permanent Auth