Tester

Package description

Job Requisition: 18705
Band: C
Salary range: £40,000 to £45,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford Dock House, In-office role

This role is a full-time in-office role, Flexible working arrangements could be made to accommodate where possible.

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 reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job introduction

BBC Partnerships is an integral part of delivering on our strategy, for a more Digital BBC creating distinctive, world class content and services.

Our Partnerships teams works towards creating those engaging experiences that strengthen BBC Brand, and provide those compelling journeys into BBC ecosystem, that provides great 'value for all'. In the process of achieving this, we work closely with all UK platform and major global TV device partners to ensure that our audiences have a high-quality product experience available to them, on the widest range of certified TV devices.

In Partnerships we work closely with all UK platform and major global TV device partners to ensure that our audiences have a high-quality iPlayer, Sounds and Red Button products available to them, on the widest range of certified TV devices. Using world-class engineering & test practices, we encourage and cultivate improvement, at both team and personal level. Our department is based in Dock House at MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester. Our team is composed of Software Engineers, Testers, Product, UX and Delivery disciplines working in close collaboration.

We're 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 where possible, 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.

Interview process

One stage interview process
- Competency based - Technical, Behavioural & values-based questions - Approximately 75-90 minutes.

Main responsibilities

As a Tester within the Partnerships teams, you will have a role in shaping, and executing testing within the team, for new features and projects, that span across various teams.

Depending on the team you are in, you will be appropriately engaged in all aspects of SDLC, including architecture, design, specs, tests, development, and delivery. As a Test discipline advocate, you will be reviewing new features that the team are working on, assess them, write test plans and work with software engineers to understand/refine/expand the test coverage to ensure testing is performed to the right level. You will also contribute to the test, writing and maintaining the automation test suites that supports this effort.

We would look for you to be an active participant in fostering a learning culture throughout the organisation through active sharing of knowledge, engaging in test community, finding opportunities to develop beyond the team.

You're thorough in the way you test features and are committed to making the product you're testing the best it can possibly be.

If you're passionate about software quality, enjoy thinking outside the box and want to work in a high-performing team doing complex and critical work, then we should talk

Are you the right candidate

Some of the things we love:

• Excellent domain testing skills with a proven strong background with experience in working with various broadcast systems such as DTT, DSat, DCable.
• Experience of testing MHEG / HbbTV interactive TV applications and the specific factors associated with their development, test and release.
• Experience of testing applications on devices including TV, STB, Game Console, tablet and mobile using responsive designs and techniques.
• Extensive knowledge of the TV device development & production lifecycle and how this affects manufacturers, platforms and content providers.
• Proven experience initiating and maintaining effective communication at all levels with external organisations across the TV domain.
• Proven testing skills developed through experience.
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and ways of working
• Practical experience source control tools e.g. Github, SVN
• Experience of working and influencing agile process across disciplines (Scrum, Kanban, V-Model)
• Experience influencing across teams to adopt / improve tools.
• Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Defining Test Data and Reports
• Ability to think creatively, solve problems, and innovate.
• Ability to anticipate problems and tackle them with a pragmatic approach.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Work closely and communicate clearly within cross-functional teams
• Ability to experiment, analyse and continually improve test practices.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

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 don't 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 you've read about our values and behaviours here .

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's 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 that's 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 .

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