Senior Tester

Software Engineering
- Permanent - Full Time
- Salford, GB, M50 2QH
- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
- Job Closing Date: 01/062025

**THE ROLE**:
**Package Description**:
**Job Reference**:23519
**Band**:D
**Salary**:£49,000 - £54,000, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
**Contract Type**:Permanent

**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.

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**Job Introduction**:
BBC iPlayer is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands and we’re looking for a talented Senior Tester who is passionate about testing, as well as motivating people and delivering innovative technology. As a Senior Tester, you will be embedded within one of the TV & Devices engineering teams to deliver world class TV platform experiences to millions of audience members every day An intuitive and engaging product experience is integral the audience’s enjoyment of the rich content that we offer and the sense of value that they get from the BBC.

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.

**Interview Process**:

- Two stage interview process
- Competency based - Technical & values-based questions
- Presentation followed by questions

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Lead the definition and execution of Test approaches that meets complex product needs#
- Active participation in helping improve your team’s software development methodologies
- Mentor and coach other testers to help build knowledge, skills and expertise within the department
- Contributing towards test process improvements and effectiveness through experimentation
- Working closely with test leadership to deliver and execute Test Strategy to evolve and elevate the test discipline
- Active engagement with wider test community forums to learn and share knowledge
- Collaborating in shaping and implementation of test automation frameworks and delivery pipelines
- Working with your team to define and ensure appropriate level of test coverage both automation & manual
- Work with AWS systems and monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch, Piano analytics or equivalent
- Taking ownership of Defect management for small/medium projects, including triaging, debugging, analysing or hypothesising towards root cause
- Ensuring ownership of test environment and test data requirements for testing tasks and projects
- Perform ad-hoc exploratory testing to support new features
- Self motivated, proactive and inquisitive attitude to work
- Outstanding communication skills
- Strong leadership of tasks, small projects spanning across multiple teams
- Experience in testing Web/Mobile &/Or TV platforms/devices
- 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 working in multi-discipline teams, ideally using Agile methodologies (sprints, scrum)
- Experience with JavaScript/ TypeScript

**About the BBC**:
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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.

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