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Pragadeesh N

Chennai

Summary

Experienced Accessibility Consultant with 8+ years of expertise in accessibility testing for web, mobile, and document platforms. Proven ability to identify and resolve accessibility issues to ensure compliance with WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 standards. Skilled in conducting audits, developing remediation strategies, and providing actionable recommendations to enhance digital inclusivity. Adept at working with cross-functional teams to integrate accessibility best practices into development processes and deliver user-centric solutions.

Work History

Work

Experience:


  • Accessibility Consultant - Movate Technologies (formerly CSS Corp) 2023 - Present
  • Senior Solutions Engineer - Tech Mahindra 2022 - 2023
  • Senior Associate - Wipro Technologies 2017 - 2022
  • Associate Test Engineer - Hewlett Packard Inc 2015- 2017


Responsibilities:

  • Expertise in Accessibility Testing of Web,Mobile applications and PDF across multiple industry domains based on industry standards like WCAG and Sec 508.
  • Experience on testing the web and mobile applications across platforms using manual approach,Assessment Tools & Assistive technologies like Screen readers,Speech Recognition and Magnification software and various automation tools like Axe,WAVE.
  • Professional in documenting VPAT and gathering non-functional requirements,identifying scope,preparing effort estimations,resource planning for Accessibility Testing proposals to meet stakeholder expectations and remediating accessibility issues to ensure compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards.
  • Liasing with front end designers to help understand and resolve critical accessibility challenges at early stage.Collaborating with development teams to analyze and discover the bottlenecks during early phases of project and thus eventually promoting to smooth delivery
  • Well versed in Testing and Remediating PDF using Adobe Acrobat DC.
  • Ability to lead a project and capable of managing the resources and client interaction, onsite coordination, conducting defect triaging involving multiple channel leads.
  • Participating proactively in daily stand-up meetings, story grooming sessions, team retrospectives, suggesting and implementing improvements.
  • Involved in all phases of a project such as Effort estimation, Test Plan, Test case, Test Data Preparation, Test Summary report, Test sign-off, Test artifacts review, UAT support.


Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

SRM Easwari Engineering College
Chennai
04.2014

Skills

  • WCAG 20/21/22
  • PDF Testing and Remediation
  • WAI-ARIA
  • Basics of HTML & CSS
  • VPAT
  • Functional Testing

Assistive Technologies

  • ALM
  • JIRA
  • AXE
  • WAVE
  • Talkback & Voiceover

Timeline

Work

Experience:

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

SRM Easwari Engineering College
Pragadeesh N