Quality Assurance and Section 508 Tester

Job overview

The Quality Assurance and Section 508 Tester role is remote. Compensation is not specified. The position supports NuAxis Innovations’ federal IT modernization work and its focus on customer experience in government solutions. The tester leads quality assurance and accessibility conformance, with responsibility for demonstrating functional equivalence between a legacy system and its replacement. The role combines test strategy, automation, AI-assisted test generation and triage, and human-validated accessibility evidence to support reliable, accessible releases.

What you'll do

• Define equivalence testing strategy for legacy behavior, edge cases, and calculations
• architect test automation and use AI-assisted generation to expand coverage
• apply AI-assisted defect triage to cluster, deduplicate, and prioritize defects
• lead Section 508 testing using the DHS Trusted Tester process, with manual and assistive technology validation by certified human testers
• validate generated test artifacts before inclusion in regression suites
• establish entry and exit gates, defect taxonomy, and parallel-run acceptance criteria
• report quality and equivalence metrics
• mentor mid-level testers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

quality assurance tester

section 508

accessibility testing

dhs trusted tester

wcag 2.1 aa

test automation

equivalence testing

ai-assisted testing

selenium

cypress

playwright

remote

nuaxis innovations

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Leads Section 508 conformance and equivalence testing; DHS Trusted Tester certification must be obtained within 90 days of assignment.

About the employer

NuAxis Innovations is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.