Software Engineer in Test

Job Package

Job Reference: 23754

Band: C

Salary: 45000 - 50000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: Office Base is Salford MediaCityUK Dock House. 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.

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.

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Job Introduction

The BBC is one of the UKs most well-known and loved brands. The iPlayer & Sounds product teams build some of the most used products in BBC: our mission is to be the first place for anybody to go to watch or listen to BBC content. Were looking for a talented Software Engineer in Test who is passionate about testing as well as delivering innovative technology to join our cross-discipline agile team where youll help shape the future of TV products for millions of viewers.

Based in MediaCityUK Salford youll join our Product TV team to deliver a world-class connected TV experience for BBC iPlayer and Sounds. Your work will involve developing innovative application features performing integrations across a range of TV devices and enhancing the TV platform that powers both iPlayer and BBC Sounds. 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.

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.

Were 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 promote a healthy work-life balancewith 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.

Main Responsibilities

Write advise on best practices for and maintain automation tests (including Performance tests)

Lead the definition and execution of Automation Test approaches that meets complex product needs

Active participation in helping improve your teams 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 and keeping up with the latest technologies

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

Working with the team make technical decisions and provide insight to peers and colleagues

Review and give constructive feedback on others code

Contribute to the teams approach to quality and testing

Ensure technical documentation is accurate and coherent

Learn new methodologies and keep up to date with software development tools and technologies

Participate in all aspects of the teams work including presenting the work of the team to other parts of the BBC and beyond

Support and decommission legacy systems

Participate in recruitment activities for the team and the wider department

Are you the right candidate

Self motivated proactive and inquisitive attitude to work

Outstanding communication skills

Experience in testing Web/Mobile &/Or TV platforms/devices

Experience in testing non-functional aspects - Performance Load Accessibility & Automation including Playwright

Experience working in multi-discipline teams ideally using Agile methodologies (sprints scrum)

Experience with JavaScript/ TypeScript

Experience with writing Automation tests

Proven ability to test deploy and support software in a complex high volume high performance environment

Proven track record of coaching more junior team members

Actively embraces many aspects of extreme programming such as pair programming TDD and CI

Experience of leading the implementation of user stories to a successful conclusion

A great attention to detail and prominent organisational skills

Strong attention to detail and the ability to explain complex information to stakeholders at all levels

Strong stakeholder management

Strong leadership skills

Ability to understand complex requirements and translate them into suitable system designs and further break the work down into smaller tasks and stories

Experience of AWS cloud technologies such as EC2 RDS DynamoDB S3 AWS Lambda

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 dont 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 youve read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individuals 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 thats 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.