The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) provides operations support services and business solutions to the community of 10,000 House Members, Officers, and staff. The CAO organization comprises more than 650 technical and administrative staff working in a variety of areas, including information technology, finance, budget management, human resources, payroll, childcare, food and vending, procurement, logistics and administrative counsel.
Responsibilities
- Assist with front-end and back-end development across platforms such as Drupal CMS, similar web CMSs, and/or .NET web applications.
- Assist with writing and maintaining clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
- Participate in code reviews, debugging sessions, and issue resolution with the development team.
- Create scripts for automating testing, monitoring, and data-related tasks using Playwright, Python, JavaScript etc.
- Conduct functional and regression testing of web applications.
- Record test outcomes, document defects, and assist in preparing test summary reports.
- Perform accessibility audits using tools like Axe, JAWS, NVDA and Site improve to ensure WCAG 2.2 compliance.
- Contribute to the implementation of accessibility best practices (e.g., semantic HTML, ARIA attributes, alternative text).
- Collect and analyze web usage data using tools such as Google Analytics, Splunk logs, or similar platforms.
- Support the development of reports and dashboards to highlight key performance indicators.
- Participate in team stand-ups, sprint reviews, and planning sessions.
- Document test cases, development findings, user feedback, and bugs wherever applicable.
- Collaborate with design, and content teams to ensure cohesive and compliant digital experiences.
Requirements
- Experience with Drupal or a similar content management system, such as WordPress.
- Experience in working with relational databases such as MySQL.
- Experience with Command Line tools; Powershell.
- Knowledge of various operating systems such as Linux, Windows.
Other
- Ideal candidate should be in the process or have recently obtained a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems. Data Science, or Statistics.
- Can show ability to pick up new development technologies quickly and independently; possess flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, processes, and new technologies.
- Continued employment is contingent upon satisfactorily completing a criminal history records check (or other applicable security clearance) and a pre-employment drug-test (pre-identified position only)
- Minimal on-the-job training will be provided.
- This is a full-time, 40-hour-per-week internship that will require onsite attendance in Washington, D.C.