Remote QA & Accessibility Lead — Drupal Excellence

Fearless; Baltimore (MD); Remote; USD 96,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules

Medical coverage

Dental & Vision coverage

401(k) match

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Fearless is seeking a QA & Accessibility Lead to drive accessibility across a Drupal-based modernization project for a large public-facing government website. The role emphasizes building testing strategies, coordinating automated and manual accessibility checks, and guiding remediation with cross-functional teams.

This fully remote position requires leadership in WCAG compliance and testing across the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 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 assistive-technology testing, including screen-reader and keyboard testing.
• Proven ability to identify accessibility barriers, provide actionable remediation guidance, and validate completed fixes.
• Strong background in web application QA and testing, including functional, integration, regression, responsive, and cross-browser testing.
• Demonstrated experience testing Drupal or comparable enterprise CMS implementations.
• Proficiency validating content and data migrations, including content, files, links, redirects, metadata, relationships, and source-to-target accuracy.
• Strong understanding of defect tracking and management, including documentation, prioritization, retesting, and closure.
• Proven ability to develop and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, validation procedures, and testing documentation.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Accessibility testing

Quality assurance

WCAG knowledge

Screen-reader testing

Automation testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Drupal

AWS

Jira

Job description

Fearless is seeking a QA & Accessibility Lead to drive accessibility across a Drupal-based modernization project for a large public-facing government website. The role emphasizes building testing strategies, coordinating automated and manual accessibility checks, and guiding remediation with cross-functional teams.

This fully remote position requires leadership in WCAG compliance and testing across the software lifecycle.