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Job Description
Job Package
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: 50000-56000
Location: London Broadcasting House
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
26 days annual leave (based on full time hours) bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers cycle to work scheme discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
Employee assistance and well-being programmes
Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications coaching and mentoring
An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Womens Network National Disability Networks and many more.
Family friendly flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working job sharing flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time please let us know by contacting us on with the job reference in the subject.
Job Introduction
BBC is one of the UKs most well-known and loved brands. BBC Sounds and iPlayer are renowned and loved throughout the UK and the world. The BBC has become a household name which delivers online content to more than 25 million people globally and we are proud to say that we help make that magic happen!
The Sounds and iPlayer teams are conceiving the next generation of features for our audiences. Our mission is to secure the Internet future of the BBC.
It is an exciting time to join the Sounds team because we aim to become the number one online audio service in the UK. The BBC is a place where your work impacts 25 million users every day across our products outputting 40 million hours of content. This role is an opportunity to work on software at a scale that is hard to find. Were looking for a passionate Tester to join our fast-paced cross-discipline agile teams iterating on our key products.
We provide you with a great work-life balance and a competitive work package. There are also great opportunities to grow your career within the team or the wider organisation. As part of BBC Sounds and iPlayer you will be at the heart of the Internet first BBC.
We have an internal Academy department to ensure you have the training needed to advance in your career from soft skills to technical training such as AWS cloud architecture and micro-services to name a few.
We allow for flexible working a 35-hour week and 26 days of annual leave plus the opportunity to buy more. We are happy to consider flexible work based on your circumstances.
Main Responsibilities
- Implement BDD automation using JavaScript and Selenium webDriver
- Pair with Software Engineers and Testers on planning defining and running tests for web releases
- Run manual and exploratory testing
- Shape our automation frameworks and pipelines
- Be a good communicator who can report on test-related issues and risks
- Learn new technologies and apply your learning to projects where appropriate
Are you the right candidate
Essential Skills
- Experience of developing automated acceptance tests preferably in JavaScriptTypescript Selenium Cucumber
- Experience of working on an agile team
- Knowledge of Playwright
- Effort estimation planning prioritisation and time management
- Developing tests using TDD/BDD techniques
- Manual and exploratory testing of web-based products
- Passionate about developing automated solutions for test problems
- The ability to communicate efficiently verbally and in writing
- Passion for quality and audience experience
- Learning new software skills and working with new technologies
- Understanding of cross browser testing
- Accessibility testing and its importance
Desirable Skills & Experience
- CI/CD experience
- Past experience of co-operating with an API or backend team
- Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline
- Exposure to accessibility testing
- AWS and AWS tools
- Deployment experience - into test or live environments
- Experience of working with other teams to improve testing across an organisation
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 behaviorshere.
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 clickhere.
Employment Type
Full-Time
