Senior Tester

Package Description

Job Reference: 23519

Band: D

Salary: £49,000 - £54,000, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Salford (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [email protected].  For any general queries, please contact: [email protected].

Freelancers

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

Job Introduction

BBC iPlayer is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands and we’re looking for a talented Senior Tester who is passionate about testing, as well as motivating people and delivering innovative technology. As a Senior Tester, you will be embedded within one of the TV & Devices engineering teams to deliver world class TV platform experiences to millions of audience members every day! An intuitive and engaging product experience is integral the audience’s enjoyment of the rich content that we offer and the sense of value that they get from the BBC.

The ideal candidate would be enthusiastic, driven and value collaborative working. You have a keen eye for detail, ensuring software quality throughout. You enjoy thinking outside the box, and have a proactive desire to learn, grow, develop, and support in evolving and elevating the test discipline as well as wanting to work in a high-performing team, leading testing for complex and critical projects. Alongside this, we would look for you to be an active participant in fostering a collaborative culture throughout the organisation through active dissemination of knowledge, coaching, mentoring and inspiring other members of the test team.

You will be engaged in all aspects of SDLC, including architectural changes, designs, development, testing and delivery, working closely with discipline leads. Whilst demonstrating audience advocacy throughout the delivery lifecycle, you will be reviewing new features to be implemented and be held accountable for leading and contributing in all related testing activities, ensuring delivery of high quality experiences to our audiences!

As an engineer in our team, you can spend 10% time of your time learning new skills, playing with new technology and developing yourself, because we understand the need to stay up to date and fresh in a constantly changing technical landscape.

We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We value our people, offering a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed.  We offer regular training and development opportunities, as well as “10%” time – allowing dedicated time for self-improvement and innovation. We promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours, in a friendly and inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief.

Interview Process

Two stage interview process

•    Competency based – Technical & values-based questions
•    Presentation followed by questions

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the definition and execution of Test approaches that meets complex product needs#
• Active participation in helping improve your team’s software development methodologies
• Mentor and coach other testers to help build knowledge, skills and expertise within the department
• Contributing towards test process improvements and effectiveness through experimentation
• Working closely with test leadership to deliver and execute Test Strategy to evolve and elevate the test discipline
• Active engagement with wider test community forums to learn and share knowledge
• Collaborating in shaping and implementation of test automation frameworks and delivery pipelines
• Working with your team to define and ensure appropriate level of test coverage both automation & manual
• Work with AWS systems and monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch, Piano analytics or equivalent
• Taking ownership of Defect management for small/medium projects, including triaging, debugging, analysing or hypothesising towards root cause
• Ensuring ownership of test environment and test data requirements for testing tasks and projects
• Learn new technologies and apply your learning to projects where appropriate
• Perform ad-hoc exploratory testing to support new features

Are you the right candidate

• Self motivated, proactive and inquisitive attitude to work
• Outstanding communication skills
• Strong leadership of tasks, small projects spanning across multiple teams
• Experience in testing Web/Mobile &/Or TV platforms/devices
• Experience in testing non-functional aspects - Performance, Load, Accessibility & Automation including Playwright
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud based technologies including AWS infrastructure as well as other CI/CD tooling e.g. JIRA, Git
• Experience working in multi-discipline teams, ideally using Agile methodologies (sprints, scrum)
• Experience with JavaScript/ TypeScript

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.