Ascension LLC is seeking a Frontend Accessibility & UAT Validation Lead to support a high-visibility website redesign effort for Columbia Association, a nonprofit community services organization serving residents, members, visitors, and program participants across Columbia, Maryland.

This role is designed for a detail-oriented frontend quality assurance, accessibility, and user acceptance testing professional who can validate that the new website experience is accessible, mobile-first, intuitive, and ready for public launch. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience testing responsive websites, validating WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, coordinating UAT with business stakeholders, documenting defects, tracking remediation, and helping cross-functional teams move from design and development into formal acceptance and release readiness.

The selected candidate will serve as Ascension’s quality and validation lead for frontend user experience, accessibility compliance, and stakeholder acceptance activities. This person will not be expected to lead the prime contractor’s enterprise QA strategy or backend technical remediation; instead, this role will provide focused leadership over Ascension’s assigned frontend validation, accessibility review, UAT coordination, stakeholder sign-off, and compliance reporting responsibilities.

Position Summary

The Frontend Accessibility & UAT Validation Lead will support the website redesign by validating that user-facing components, templates, workflows, content experiences, and transactional journeys meet functional, accessibility, usability, and mobile-readiness expectations. The role will support multiple implementation phases, including UX/UI design review, frontend development validation, content build support, UAT, deployment readiness, and post-launch QA review.

The candidate must be comfortable working in a collaborative delivery environment with a prime contractor, technical developers, UX/UI designers, content leads, business stakeholders, and client testing participants. The work will require strong judgment, disciplined documentation, and the ability to translate defects, accessibility findings, and stakeholder feedback into clear, actionable items for remediation.

The ideal candidate should be self-driven, organized, and able to work effectively in an ambiguous project environment with minimal supervision. This person should be skilled at anticipating quality risks, building practical validation checklists, managing multiple testing cycles, and ensuring that frontend issues are clearly tracked through resolution.

Day-to-Day Activities and Responsibilities

The Frontend Accessibility & UAT Validation Lead will:

• Review mobile-first wireframes, high-fidelity designs, design system components, and frontend templates for accessibility, usability, and consistency.
• Validate frontend implementation against approved designs, functional requirements, and responsive behavior expectations.
• Conduct WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility reviews using manual checks, assistive technology, browser tools, and automated testing tools.
• Assess website pages, forms, navigation, filters, search experiences, registration flows, member-facing journeys, and content templates for accessibility and usability barriers.
• Develop frontend QA checklists, accessibility validation checklists, UAT scripts, regression test scripts, and release readiness criteria.
• Coordinate UAT sessions with business stakeholders, content owners, and client testing participants.
• Document defects, accessibility findings, usability issues, and stakeholder feedback in a clear, prioritized, and actionable format.
• Track defects from identification through remediation, retesting, closure, and final sign-off.
• Support testing of mobile-first experiences across browsers, devices, and screen sizes.
• Validate frontend behavior tied to search, filtering, personalization, registration, scheduling, member/non-member journeys, and content discovery.
• Coordinate with developers and the prime contractor’s technical team to confirm frontend defects are understood and appropriately assigned.
• Perform regression testing after defect remediation, configuration changes, content migration updates, or release candidate updates.
• Prepare accessibility testing summaries, UAT status updates, defect reports, and release readiness recommendations.
• Support stakeholder sign-off workflows by confirming open issues, resolved issues, deferred items, and launch-impacting risks.
• Contribute to go-live readiness reviews, launch checklists, rollback readiness discussions, and post-launch QA validation.
• Maintain clear testing evidence, screenshots, issue logs, validation notes, and compliance support documentation.