Software Engineer in Test
Software Engineer in Test
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent
DEPARTMENT: TV & Devices
LOCATION: Salford MediaCity UK Dock House
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate with balance office working of 2 days per week with home 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
The BBC is one of the UKs most well-known and loved brands. The TV & Device experience 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.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Based in MediaCityUK Salford youll join one of our TV & Device experience teams 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.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
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 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 SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
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
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
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
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
Strong stakeholder management
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.
Employment Type
Full-Time
