What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Specialist Senior position at Spruce Technology, Inc.?
NYS Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking a IT Specialist Senior to assist with System Modernization projects.
Daily Tasks include:
Spruce Technology, Inc. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is the policy of Spruce Technology, Inc. to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process.
Daily Tasks include:
- Will perform extensive accessibility analysis and create documentation for new or existing transactions.
- Work independently or with accessibility testers to assess web pages and documents (i.e., PDF) for conformance to established web accessibility standards (in particular WCAG 2.0 AA).
- Develop detailed reports explaining accessibility defects identified through an audit and suggest remediation methods/techniques.
- Review results of assessment with developers, project team members, and management.
- Answer questions regarding testing methods and interpretation of the results.
- Create comprehensive accessibility documentation for use by developers.
- Provide guidance and participate in developing an accessibility audit methodology.
- Participate in accessibility feedback to transaction and form designs.
- 72 months experience performing Web Accessibility Audits using assistive or automated technologies, such as JAWS, WAVE from WebAIM, NVDA, ZoomText, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Accessibility Checker
- 60 months experience coding with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- 60 months experience in UI Accessibility testing
- 72 months experience in developing technical documentation
- 60 months experience performing Accessibility Audits against Digital Documents (e.g., PDF, Word, Web Pages)
- 72 months experience using and following Section 508 and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines and specifications-W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0 A and AA), Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA), User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG), and Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG
- Full time role with engagement length of 16 months
- Daily work hours: 8:30AM to 5:00PM
- Physical office location: 1220 Washington Ave, State Campus, Building 5 , Albany, NY , 12226
- Telecommuting options: up to 50% of scheduled hours per week
Spruce Technology, Inc. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is the policy of Spruce Technology, Inc. to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process.
Salary : $28 - $33
