QA & Accessibility Lead, (Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)

Category: Engineering, IT \& Systems Administration reqId: P\-100287 Posted Date: 10/05/2026 Work Environment: Remote Exempt widget: Full Time Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States None No Travel **Job Requirements** **QA \& Accessibility Lead** **(Consultant, Engineering \& Technical Services)** 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, DevOps, 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 stab