Senior Tester
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: TV & Devices
LOCATION: Salford Dock House (x5 days per week in office)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 49000-54000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
BBC iPlayer is one of the UKs most loved brands and were looking for a talented Senior Tester who is passionate about testing motivating others and delivering innovative technology. Youll be embedded in a TV & Devices engineering team helping deliver world-class TV platform experiences to millions daily. A seamless engaging product experience is key to audience satisfaction and the BBCs value.
Youll lead testing for complex high-impact projects ensuring software quality across the development lifecycle. Youll be hands-on in all stages of SDLCarchitecture design development testing and deliverywhile advocating for the audience and collaborating with discipline leads.
Were looking for someone enthusiastic detail-oriented and collaborative with a drive to learn grow and elevate the test discipline. Youll also help foster a strong team culture through mentoring coaching and knowledge sharing.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
As an engineer in our team you can spend 10% 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.
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 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.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
- Lead the definition and execution of test approaches that meet complex product needs while actively contributing to improvements in your teams software development methodologies.
- Mentor and coach other testers to build knowledge skills and expertise across the department and support test process improvements through experimentation.
- Collaborate with test leadership to deliver and execute test strategy helping to evolve and elevate the test discipline.
- Engage with wider test community forums to share knowledge and stay current with industry practices.
- Shape and implement test automation frameworks and delivery pipelines ensuring appropriate levels of both automated and manual test coverage.
- Take ownership of defect management for small to medium projects including triaging debugging and root cause analysis while managing test environments and data requirements.
- Work with AWS systems and monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and Piano Analytics perform ad-hoc exploratory testing and continuously learn and apply new technologies to projects.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
Self motivated proactive and inquisitive attitude to work
Outstanding communication skills
Experience in testing Web/Mobile &/Or TV platforms/devices
Excellent domain testing skills with a proven strong background with experience in working with various broadcast systems such as DTT DSat DCable.
Experience working in multi-discipline teams ideally using Agile methodologies (sprints scrum)
Strong leadership of tasks small projects spanning across multiple teams
Experience of testing applications on devices including TV STB Game Console tablet and mobile using responsive designs and techniques.
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED
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 with JavaScript/TypeScript
If you can bring some of these skills and experience along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
