Senior Tester - EXTEND
Senior Tester - EXTEND
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Job Reference: 23585
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Salary: up to 55000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Location: Glasgow -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.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the . For any general queries please contact: .
This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf disabled or neuro-divergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010) the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments and medical conditions such as Cancer HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.
We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process or have any questions about our Extend programme please contact the BBC Extend team via the shared mailbox.
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
If youd like more information on BBC Extend please visit the BBC Extend webpage.
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Job Introduction
We are looking for a Senior Test Engineer with a passion for Quality Automation (Infrastructure Testing Deployment) Cloud Technologies and good professional software testing methodologies and practices. The ideal candidate could really have a significant impact in shaping our processes and direction in the exciting AMP team.
When you join the BBC as a Senior Tester you join a culture of purpose and belonging where your growth is priority your identity is embraced and the work you do matters. Your work will have a direct impact on our millions of audience users across the globe. At AMP (Aggregated Metadata Platform team) our purpose is to make programme and schedule data easy to use and share for better business processes and tools. We consolidate data from multiple systems to create a unified programme catalogue and deliver the Programme Guide to various boxes like Freesat SKY Freeview etc.
You will join an established team in the BBC to build upon this quality of product and this role based at our impressive Glasgow office on the banks of the Clyde. We are hybrid working from home and office (minimum of 1 day per week in office).
Interview Process
In the first session we will ask you to explain a testing solution that you have solved using automated solutions. We will ask questions around the architecture the decisions made and your role in them. This will be scored on your ability to effectively communicate the business problem and the solution plus describing choices that you made as well as your ability to provide answers to follow up questions. As this interview will be conducted remotely you will want to prepare a diagram to share.
The second session will take a more traditional questions and answers style interview. In this session we will learn more about your experience of the full development lifecycle the previous projects you have worked on and roles you have had as well as your approach to team processes.
We may also ask you to complete a technical homework exercise as part of the process
Main Responsibilities
At the BBC we as passionate about supporting you to be the best Engineer that you can be. As such we understand that it might take you some time to get up to speed and learn our business and technical domain and team processes. You will join a team who are keen on collaboration and will guide you over the first weeks and months as you settle into the role. You will be working in a cross-discipline team collaborating with the Engineering ManagerProduct Manager Delivery Manager Architect BA/UX and Engineers to deliver robustquality software.
Are you the right candidate
As an employer who puts inclusivity as one of our utmost priorities we will of course make every accommodation and adjustment for any accessibility needs (through both the interview stage and the role going forward).
The ideal candidate would have demonstrable experience in the following:
- API Testing / Front End Testing.
- Automated and Manual testing.
- Integrating Test Automation with CI/CD pipelines.
- A desire to define and implement good testing practices.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The technologies we use are (ideally you would be experienced in one or more):
- Java/Groovy
- Javascript
Desirable (but not essential) would be experience in some of the following:
- Microservice / Event Driven Architectures
We are a team that values working collaboratively often through pairing. We like practices such as Scrum/Kanban Test-Driven Development and Continuous Deployment but more importantly we encourage continuous improvement - we embrace change.
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
