Tester

Job Introduction
Are you looking for a role that builds on your experience with engineering systems? Are you keen to learn, grow, and develop? Do you want to work in a nurturing culture where you can flourish and be your best? Would you like to work on services that are used by key BBC products and millions of people each day? If so, this opportunity could be for you.

We are currently looking for talented **Test Engineers **to join one of our data visualisation teams here in the BBC. We are looking for **talent at mid-weight and senior levels **that have a passion for engineering software with a focus on testing visual and service-based systems at scale. We currently have roles open in **Cardiff working in a hybrid **way.

The BBC’s world-class online products (iPlayer, News, Sport, Sounds, Bitesize and many others) reach millions of audience members every week and create billions of rows of data per day. Our data teams enable our audience to receive personalised experiences and enable us to understand our audience better. The data visualisation team help analyse and show our audience behaviour and is crucial in how we tailor our output and evolve our services.

Some of the key benefits you’ll get from working in this role are:

- **A variety of challenging work -** our data visualisation team work on a wide variety of different technologies.
- **Working with cutting edge technology - **We are constantly looking to leverage new technologies to make our systems more effective.

Main Responsibilities
As an established test engineer with a passion for data services and systems you will be working within our Agile development team called Audiences to deliver new products, product improvements and enhance our technologies. You will be supported by your team and leaders to deliver value to our audience with an eye on quality, scale, and security. As a test engineer you will be responsible for helping engineer our data visualisation services including our automation suites, performance suites, feature tests and development processes.

We don’t expect you to have experience in all of these but below gives you examples of the technologies and practices we value:

- The ability to **question the way we work**, and the tools and processes we use - we’re always aiming to make our team the best it can be
- An **enthusiasm **for writing clean, well-documented, and testable code
- **Curious and embraces change** - we’re always learning new technologies and requirements often change, you’ll enjoy this challenge
- **Goal oriented** - you’ll enjoy finishing the job by developing the final details
- Knowledge of testing automation suites such as Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, Jest
- Experience of setting up a testing strategy/framework from scratch
- Experience in API testing tools like Postman or SOAPUI
- Experience of reading and writing code in React and Next
- Experience of cloud computing (AWS)
- Version control systems such as git
- Understanding of continuous integration and deployment methodologies
- Experience working within a multi-site team or department
- Experience of writing unit tests
- Experience of performance testing

About the BBC
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 in the document attached below.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description
Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Cardiff
- **_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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.