QA, Section 508 Accessibility and Technical Documentation Specialist

HRsmart; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and prescription coverage

Dental and vision

Short-term disability

Life and accidental death insurance

Competitive 401(k)

11 paid federal holidays

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Tuition and professional development

Job summary

SPN Solutions seeks a QA, Section 508 Accessibility and Technical Documentation Specialist in Fairfax, VA. You will verify bilingual parity for English/Spanish, perform accessibility tests, and author guides and compliance docs. Hybrid work with occasional travel supports a federal health software project.

Required: CS degree or related field, 5+ years QA, 508/IAAP credentials, and hands-on screen readers. Remote work not excluded, but office presence in Fairfax is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field with 5+ years of QA experience; 9 years can substitute.
• DHS Section 508 Trusted Tester certification or IAAP WAS/CPACC within hire or 90 days.
• Hands-on manual testing with JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Test automation in CI using Playwright, Cypress or Selenium.
• Experience in healthcare informatics or public health systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and run the branching test matrix for all submitter types and reports.
• Verify English/Spanish parity across UI and validation messages.
• Perform assistive-technology testing with JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver.
• Prepare Accessibility Conformance Reports and 508 documentation.
• Classify defects accurately for severity in the customer’s process.
• Write and edit technical guides and architecture documents.
• Ensure release deliverables are accurate and 508 compliant.
• Test document-suggestion feature for accuracy before release.

Skills

Software QA experience

Bilingual testing English/Spanish

Section 508 accessibility testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

JAWS

NVDA

VoiceOver

Job description

QA, Section 508 Accessibility and Technical Documentation Specialist - (139)

Job Title

QA, Section 508 Accessibility and Technical Documentation Specialist

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Information Technology

Location

FAIRFAX - , VA 22030 US (Primary)

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Travel

0 - 10%

Job Description

You are the independent check. You write no production code, so you test what others built with fresh eyes. The customer inspects branching correctness and bilingual parity at 100 percent, and your test suites are the evidence it accepts. Full time, W-2, hybrid from Fairfax, Virginia, starting November 2026.

Why this job exists

SPN Solutions has won a new contract to build a public-facing health reporting application for a federal public health agency. Members of the public and clinicians will use it to submit safety reports in English and Spanish. It is built on cloud services the agency already runs, by a small team in which every person owns their part.

What you will do

• Build and run the branching test matrix: every submitter type against every report scenario against every conditional field, on every build.
• Build and run the English/Spanish parity suite: the same tasks in both languages, comparing completion, validation, error text, confirmation and reading order.
• Run manual assistive-technology testing on every changed screen with JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver, plus keyboard-only traversal.
• Prepare Accessibility Conformance Reports and remediation plans, and the Section 508 portion of compliance documentation.
• Run negative and role-based testing with at least one negative case per input and per branch.
• Classify defects accurately for the customer's severity determination. Never reclassify or hold back a defect to pass a threshold.
• Write the technical/administrator user guide, the operations and maintenance guide, architecture designs and process workflows.
• Edit every deliverable for accuracy, plain language and Section 508 conformance before release.
• Test the application's document-suggestion feature against a fixed test set and record its accuracy as a release gate.

What you need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, technical communication or a related field and 5 years of software QA experience; 9 years of experience may substitute for the degree.
• DHS Section 508 Trusted Tester certification, or IAAP WAS or CPACC, held at hire or earned within 90 days.
• Hands-on manual testing with JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Test automation with Playwright, Cypress or Selenium in a CI pipeline.
• Technical writing samples: user guides, operations manuals or architecture documents.
• Experience in at least one of: healthcare informatics, public health surveillance systems, healthcare data management, or healthcare-related IT.
• Ability to obtain and keep a federal Public Trust determination.

What sets a candidate apart

• Accessibility Conformance Reports on the ITI VPAT template or an agency 508 checklist.
• Testing bilingual or multilingual applications.
• ISTQB certification.
• Federal acceptance testing against contract performance standards.

Pay is discussed with you directly when we speak. These are the benefits every full-time SPN employee receives.

• Medical and prescription coverage, dental and vision
• Short-term disability
• Life and accidental death insurance
• Competitive 401(k)
• 11 paid federal holidays
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick leave
• Parental leave
• Tuition and professional development assistance

Terms

• Full time, W-2, salaried (exempt), employed by SPN Solutions
• Target start: November 2026
• Hybrid: SPN's office in Fairfax, Virginia, and remote
• Core hours Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern
• Occasional travel to Atlanta, Georgia, for onboarding and program meetings, reimbursed
• You must obtain and keep a federal Public Trust determination. No security clearance is required
• Work is done on customer-furnished equipment

SPN Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.