Senior Software Engineer in Test
Senior Software Engineer in Test
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Job Description
Job Band
Job Reference: SF22093
Band: D
Salary:60000 - 70000 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: Office Base is London or Salford. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
Were 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.
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Job Purpose
BBC Account is at the centre of the BBCs aim to make a personalised BBC online for everyone. We create components systems and services that enable peoples experience of BBC Online to be tailored by their activities and interactions. Everything from content recommendations in iPlayer to enabling people to comment on BBC News articles. Our services enable and underpin offerings from the BBCs major brands including iPlayer Sounds BBC News Sport Bitesize and so much more giving our services unparalleled reach.
Our team uses the latest technologies inspires innovation and has autonomy. Our products span the whole of the BBC and reach millions of users. We are highly functioning multi-disciplinary teams working in an Agile way. You will be working on great projects and you will be surrounded by a team of like-minded technology professionals from whom you can learn and grow. This is an environment where we love to share ideas and challenge the traditional with our goal of taking the BBC on the journey to be a digital-first organisation.
We offer regular training and development opportunities including 10% time to allow for self-improvement learning and innovation. We have a focus on good quality management to help enable guide and empower others. We promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours
Main Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer in Test within the BBC Account team you will be responsible for testing software for the authorisation and authentication applications which span the entire BBC. Our software opens the gateway to personalisation across the web mobile applications and voice interfaces. You will be responsible for writing appropriate tests to ensure code quality and coverage and participate in code reviews.
Our applications are a set of services providing both APIs and audience-facing applications. As a Senior Software Engineer in Test you will:
- Work with Delivery Managers Product Owners Technical Leads to understand the requirements
- Designing communicating and implementing the Test approaches
- Contribute to automated test frameworks to verify functional and non-functional requirements.
- Troubleshooting finding critical bugs or verifying reported issues and identifying their underlying cause.
- Producing descriptive and concise reports that evidence the functionality of a product.
- Communicating status information and issues to tech lead / Delivery manager and Architect and Participate and lead as required in the teams delivery process.
- Ability to be the main test representative within an agile team and advocate for a whole team approach to quality
- Mentor and coach junior colleagues and provide technical leadership and direction to peers and colleagues.
- Effectively participate in and help improve the QA teams software development methodologies such as pairing clean code and best practices documentation CI/CD etc...
Are you the right candidate
- Extensive and hands on experience with Automated UI and RESTful API Testing
- Hands on experience of coding practices
- Expertise in testing frameworks and libraries such as JavaScript/typescript Playwright
- Experience with Java Rest-Assured Cucumber
- Familiarity with ny automated performance testing using Gatling and Scala
- Experience working with AWS SDK
- Familiarities with contract testing using PACT
- Experience configuring and running jobs in a Continuous Integration tool like Jenkins
Interview Process
Interviews are expected to be one stage only and held virtually week comencing 23 June 2025. There will be a technical assignment that will be presented back in the interview alongside BBC Value and technical competency questions.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
