Improved team productivity by providing technical guidance and mentoring junior ADA engineers.
Achieved successful project outcomes by maintaining accurate documentation and meeting strict deadlines.
Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
Wrote, reviewed and edited technical document in accordance with template requirements.
Developed work plans for various personnel roles based on strengths and talents.
Conducted rigorous quality assurance tests, identifying areas of improvement for product optimization.
Trained and mentored competent and flexible workforce to meet project needs and promote positive work environment.
Lead/Sr. Digital Accessibility Engineer
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
11.2018 - 03.2022
WWL Accessibility Program Technical Support – Engineering (COGSs) Microsoft Accessibility Overview: “There is no limit to what people can achieve when technology reflects diversity of all who use it
Microsoft is committed to revolutionizing access to technology for people living with disabilities”
AI can empower people with disabilities with tools that support independence and productivity, as technology rapidly changes the way we live, learn, and work
Participate in meetings with both Microsoft Internal and Third-party digital property teams as a member of WWL Accessibility Core Program Team in understanding the requirements, performing audits and providing technical insights
Handling all the third-party Digital properties which are powered by Microsoft
Attending meetings with Design teams, story discussions and help in breaking down story tasks and slotting them into sprints
Providing Accessibility requirements for Design Prototype submitted
Delivering MBR (Monthly Business Review) reports on program status to stakeholders and leaders
Facilitate vendor engagements related to accessibility evaluations, remediation, and training
Analyzing and gathering the requirements for the framework and creating a design recommendation for the web pages, iOS, and Android apps
Building out stories based on the requirements using ADO from Microsoft Visual Basic and tracking board for BAU (Business as usual Intakes)
Working on both Design, Development and validation assessments
Generating Production Monitoring reports every month to track all the accessibility issues
Following MAS (Microsoft Accessibility Standards) for performing all the development Assessments and all the Assessments are submitted to the CSEO Accessibility Assessment Service request
The MAS traces to Section 508, WCAG 2.1 and EN 301 549 conformance reports
Conformance reports are generated from the Accessibility Assessment Tool (AAT) and Accessibility Insights Automated Tool
Evaluating and generating ERT (Expert Report Template) reports, Assure for reporting and word doc based on aXe from Deque, Keros, Accessibility Assessment Tool (AAT) and Accessibility Insights for web from Microsoft and AMP from SSB Bart Group violations which support WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 A and AA level standards
Testing in HCM (High Contrast Mode) for websites benefit low-vision users and users with Visual disabilities
Testing manually using AT (assistive technologies) like NVDA, JAWS, Talkback, Narrator, and Voiceover
Using Color-contrast finder.org to evaluate color contrast issues and checking High color contrast mode in windows 10 using high contrast on or off from the keyboard, press left Alt+left Shift+Print Screen
Using MSAA object inspector to track the focus on the webpage when the focus indicator is not available to the users
Following ARIA 1.1 Authoring Practices, W3C, CSS3 tricks and WebAIM
Developed manufacturing processes that were robust yet simple to perform.
Spearheaded continuous improvement initiatives resulting in increased operational efficiency across multiple departments.
Sr. Digital Accessibility Engineer
Capital One
Richmond, VA
12.2015 - 10.2018
Accessibility for All: Capital One is committed in making the products and services accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities
Capital One follows WCAG 2.1 Guidelines (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and uses the Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) specification
Accessibility is all about inclusive designs, code quality and doing the right thing”
Created series of process optimizations to reduce production errors and increase quality
Modified production processes to reduce non-conforming material occurrences
Established project schedules and monitored tasks to meet milestones during each phase
Generated results using Automated tools like ATTEST, aXe, Assure by Deque Systems, AMP (Accessibility management platform) tool by Level Access
Also, Color Contrast issues are verified using Tanaguru.com
Used NoCoffee and CVS Simulator plugins used to test the web pages for visually impaired people
Mobile testing and iPad testing using Voice-Over screen reader and Talkbacks for Android devices
Solved accessibility issues related to browser in-consistency like keyboard traps, visible focus on the UI Components, majorly on Firefox browser
Following WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 for Design Patterns and Widgets, Landmark Regions, Developing Keyboard Interface, Grid and Table Properties and Roles that automatically hide semantics by making their descendants presentational
Using WAI-ARIA Roles, States and Properties when complex web applications become inaccessible when assistive technologies cannot determine the semantics behind portions of a document or when the user is unable to effectively navigate to all parts of it in a usable way
WAI-ARIA divides the semantics into roles (the type defining a user interface element) and states and properties supported by the roles
Assisted accessibility issues for custom components involving EASE UI Components like date-picker, radio buttons, complex tables, select menu, etc
Participated and Initiated Team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion to improve the testing quality by better strategies and testing approach.
User Interface Developer/ Digital Accessibility Engineer
JCPenney
08.2015 - 12.2015
The Project is delivered in phases with initial release targeting mobile users
Improved and expanded project platforms using JavaScript to develop rich User Interfaces
Experience in cross browser compatibility and mobile application development
Worked on AngularJS MVC framework for developing the Single Page Application
Worked on CSS pre-processor SASS
Extensively used Bootstrap and CSS3 media queries for Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Experience on implementing the AJAX features using JavaScript and jQuery
Used custom directives for pagination, date-picker etc
Migrated native java script code to Angular MVC framework
Efficient hands on experience on iOS and Android devices using Charles-proxy simulator
Used jQuery, a cross browser JavaScript library to dynamically add the items to a request on the client side
Experience on task runners GIT, source tree
Used Charles-Proxy to solve the mobile application bugs