Software Engineer in Test, VPAT
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with diverse people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. Making our products accessible to our diverse customers is critically important. At Splunk, we're committed to our work, customers, having fun and most meaningfully to each other's success.

As a VPAT/Section 508 Compliance Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that our products and new features are accessible and easy to use. This includes reviewing UX designs and testing new functions features to ensure that accessibility options are in place to ensure the availability of the features to all of our audiences.

About the Role

You work closely with the Engineering and Product Management teams to develop, script and execute tests to verify conformance of Splunk features and their functionality under the compliance of section 508. We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic and focused individuals who have a real passion for quality engineering and have a strong knowledge of product quality standards, automation, processes, and accessibility compliance.

* Opportunities to develop and grow as an engineer. We are at the forefront of our industry, always expanding into new areas, and working with open source and new technologies.
* Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe mentors help both sides of the equation.
* A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment. We work in an open environment, have a shared kitchen and sit down for a quick sync every morning.
* Balance. We don't expect people to work 12 hour days. We want you to have a successful time outside of work too. Want to work from home sometimes? No problem. We trust our colleagues to be responsible for their time and commitment and believe that balance helps cultivate a positive environment.

Responsibilities

* Collaborate with design, product management, and developers to make sure we provide a quality user experience that is accessible to everyone.
* Design, document, manual execute and automate. Developing automation to help scan for accessibility bugs. This will be in Python and Javascript, utilizing A11Y tools like aXe, AATT, Accessibility Checker, FireEyes, etc.
* Research and develop automation tools used to improve accessibility test coverage efficiency and sufficiency. Develop and evolve test frameworks with different accessibility compliance scanners.
* Breadth and depth. You want to work on incorporating accessibility to industry-leading software and services.

Qualifications

* Understanding of Web Design and Development. Is knowledgeable and has a firm understanding of HTML, Javascript, CSS.
* Knowledge of the WCAG, Section 508, and WCAG v2 is a must.
* Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) experience. Writing VPAT documents for various products. Prior experience is a requirement.
* Desire to engage with customers and participate in validating patches and maintenance releases.
* Experience with using assistive technologies, like screen readers such as JAWS
* Solid knowledge of various operating systems such as Windows, Linux, MacOS.
* Experienced working on enterprise applications
* Preferably experience in Python and Javascript programming languages.
* Experience with py.test or similar testing frameworks is preferred.
* Be mature and patient on handling conflicts
* Effective communicator
* Passion for providing accessibility to all software.

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.