[Jobs] Interesting employment opportunity at Microsoft

[David Andrews]

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>The following was taken from
>http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=73665C6F-C19E-4F4A-A216-5A1A4740E1AF
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>Are you passionate about web browsing, accessibility, innovation in 
>testing practices and driving test efforts across multiple feature 
>teams? If so come
>join the Internet Explorer User Experience test team. We have an 
>opportunity for a dedicated software design engineer in Test to head 
>up accessibility
>testing for the IE team.
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>In this position you will be responsible for helping to define and 
>execute an accessibility test suite for IE. This will include 
>testing for compliance
>to accessibility standards as well as testing Internet Explorer's 
>compatibility with various assistive technology such as screen 
>readers, screen magnifiers,
>voice recognition software and more. Testing will also include 
>ensuring that IE works with Microsoft accessibility technologies 
>such as Microsoft Active
>Accessibility, windows high contrast and large fonts modes and 
>future Microsoft accessibility technologies. Finally you will work 
>with various feature
>teams across the IE test team to improve the overall level of 
>accessibility testing by individual feature owners.
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>We are looking for a strong candidate who wants to both help us 
>adopt current best practices for accessibility testing and innovate 
>in this space. The successful
>candidate should have a B.S. in computer science or related 
>experience, familiarity with Microsoft Active Accessibility and test 
>automation, expertise
>with C#/C++, comfort with HTML and web scripting and strong 
>knowledge of IE's document object model. Candidates with a passion 
>around technically challenging
>testing and accessibility will find this opportunity one with much 
>room to grow and have a large impact on product quality.
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David Andrews and white cane Harry.