What is the opportunity?
We are excited to announce an opening for a Accessibility Test Manager within Group NFT Factory shared services. This role is pivotal in governing, managing, and leading Accessibility Testing along with contributing other non-functional testing aspects such as performance and security, with a primary focus on Accessibility test practices for a range of web and mobile applications hosted across the group.
This is a great opportunity to be at the forefront of enabling sophisticated Non-functional test practices, passionate about leading the Accessibility test services across IT engineering and enterprise functions!
You will take full responsibility for driving and innovating non-functional testing across IT engineering. This includes ensuring that our systems meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and security, while also being accessible and user-friendly.
In this Role, you will
* Play a role as Accessibility Test SME Go-To person for Business, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, Development Architects, and Development Leads.
* Utilise and improve the technical Accessibility test framework, process, criteria, and tools standards.
* Identify and implement Accessibility Automation in early development cycles in assigned programs, ensuring full end-to-end accessibility coverage later stages against WCAG standards.
* Provide a re-usable approach for Accessibility testing services across all technologies for all business units.
* Collaborate with service partners and suppliers to deliver projects to high quality, on time.
* Work in an Agile and Waterfall development, Automation, and Service delivery environment.
* Capture and interpret Business, Technical & Service Acceptance Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and Solution Design to form the Test Design to perform End-to-End accessibility testing.
Essential Skills & Experience
* Experience in leading End-to-End Accessibility testing, setting up accessibility test framework and contributing significantly to automating accessibility experiments for diverse user bases and use cases.
* Collaborate with senior partners to enable and grow IT Accessibility Testing across the organization as part of NFT release cycles.
* Use automated testing tools (prefer BrowserStack, Evinced, JAWS, TalkOver) and manual techniques to identify accessibility issues.
* Understand and implement Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and other relevant accessibility standards.
* Document and report accessibility issues, providing detailed information about the nature and location of the problem.
* Collaborate closely with development teams to rectify accessibility issues.
* Conduct usability testing with individuals with disabilities to gather qualitative data.
* Stay up-to-date with technology advancements and accessibility legislation.
* Provide recommendations and solutions to improve the accessibility of digital content.
* Prefer working in the banking domain and lead the accessibility testing project for online or mobile banking.
* Familiarity with WCAG standards and conducting accessibility audits.
* Strong knowledge of assistive technologies (e.g., JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver).
* Ability to work in a highly collaborative manner with the current team, management structure, and IT Partners.
What will make you stand out?
* Accessibility tooling certification recognised by WCAG or Accessibility Groups.
* Understanding of Non-functional requirements associated with accessibility security requirements for disabled users.
* NFT process - ITIL V4, ITSCM.
Essential Qualifications
* Relevant 3rd level qualification.
More about the team
Our NFT Factory within the IT Engineering Shared services functions provide quality, efficient, and effective end-to-end managed service covering Performance, Resilience, Security, Accessibility & various other Operational Acceptance Testing on production scale environments to assure Operational Readiness and Business control requirements against the IT risk framework.
Why work with us?
The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. We offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy, and working parent supports.
Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor, and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!
Key Competencies
* Customer Focused - Self
* Agile - Self
* Manage Risk - Self
* Accountable - Self
Where Agency assistance is required, Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.
We are on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities, and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence, or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.
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