Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Served as UX team representative on the steering committee for 2021 core product rebuild
• Met with clients to understand their accessibility policies and requirements
• Lead initiative to build an original component library that meets WCAG 2.1 success criteria
• Collaborated with designers to refine component concepts and design system mockups in Figma
• Coded CodePen prototypes to validate usability and accessibility of new component designs
• Created and maintained documentation in Confluence and Storybook
• Wrote Jira tickets with Gherkin acceptance criteria, as well as accessibility requirements and guidance
• Groomed and estimated level of effort for tickets during bi-weekly Agile sprints
• Trained full-stack development team in semantic HTML, WAI-ARIA, and CSS, via pair programming
• Reviewed and provided feedback on teammates’ code, in GitHub pull requests
• Coded features for new core product, using Ruby on Rails, ViewComponent, and Stimulus.js
• Tested new code for screen reader accessibility, using VoiceOver
• Tested new code for cross-browser compatibility, using BrowserStack