QA & Accessibility Lead; Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services

QA & Accessibility Lead

We are seeking a QA & Accessibility Lead as part of our Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services career path to support the modernization of a large-scale public-facing government website. This role will lead quality assurance and accessibility across the Drupal implementation, ensuring the solution is functional, reliable, accessible, and ready for production. You will own testing across design, development, content and data migration, and release while working closely with UX, engineering, content, Dev Ops, and customer stakeholders to integrate quality and accessibility throughout delivery.

This is a fully remote role.

At Fearless, this Consultant collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and maintainable systems across all stages of the software and data lifecycle. This role is instrumental in delivering secure, efficient, and scalable solutions that directly impact the success of projects, teams, and organizational goals. This role will possess and/or develop the skills to be able to span the domains of software development, data engineering, infrastructure automation, information assurance, and AI/ML integration at a practical application level of proficiency.

This Consultant role will work on projects that allow them to contribute across the entire technology stack—software, infrastructure, data, AI, and security—to ensure quality, speed, and innovation in delivery.

Your Responsibilities in this Role:

• Own accessibility strategy across design, development, migration, testing, and release.
• Perform and coordinate automated, manual, and assistive-technology accessibility testing of webpages, components, templates, and migrated content.
• Provide actionable accessibility remediation guidance to designers, developers, and content teams and validate completed fixes.
• Define accessibility checklists and in-editor automated checks supporting content-provider certification and ensure supporting training materials and documentation meet accessibility standards.
• Produce the Accessibility Audit and Testing Report and required conformance certification.
• Develop and execute test plans covering functional, integration, regression, responsive, and cross-browser testing of the Drupal implementation.
• Validate migrated content, files, links, redirects, metadata, relationships, and source-to-target accuracy across content types.
• Develop automated tests and integrate testing into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Track, prioritize, retest, and close defects in collaboration with engineering and product teams.
• Support UAT, production-readiness validation, deployment, and post-production stabilization testing.
• Document testing approaches, results, defects, accessibility findings, remediation status, and validation evidence.

The Impact You Will Create in this Role:

Fearless Impact:

• Collaborates with cross functional teams
• Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world class services.
• Be reliable completing assigned objectives on time.
• Alert your teammates and supervisor immediately when you think a deliverable is at risk.
• Gather intelligence and listen to what your client, other people within the customer's organization and other contractors say about your project, and report back to your Fearless teammates and supervisor (whether it's good, bad or just informational).

Fearless Customer Impact:

• Deliver expected outcomes relative to high quality code and maintainable systems
• Offer and implement innovative solutions that include engineering best practices through new tools, frameworks and methodologies
• Serve as a trusted advisor in your area of expertise

Work Experience

Project Skill and Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 4 years of total relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience is required.
• At least 3 years supporting enterprise-wide website modernization or digital transformation initiatives, with that work occurring within the past 5 years.
• Participation in at least one government, higher education, or similarly regulated organization project.
• Involvement in the implementation or support of at least one Drupal solution hosted on AWS.
• Demonstrated leadership of digital/web accessibility and quality assurance for large-scale websites or digital applications.
• Deep knowledge and practical application of WCAG 2.1/2.2 Level A and AA accessibility standards.
• Proficiency with automated and manual accessibility testing methods and tools.
• Strong background conducting…