Tester

Software Engineering- Permanent - Full Time- Salford, GB, M50 2QH- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST- Job Closing Date: 12/12/2024**THE ROLE**:
**Job Intro**:
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.

**Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:
**Skills and Experience**:

- Excellent domain testing skills with a proven strong background with experience in working with various broadcast systems such as DTT, DSat, DCable.
- 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 explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Working knowledge of product/defect/test case management systems.

**Desirable Skills**
- Advocate of Agile, Kanban and Lean development practices including TDD and BDD, with hands-on experience.
- Up-to-date knowledge of test engineering trends and emerging technologies
- An understanding of the UK market landscape for digital TV and IPTV products.

**Key Competencies**:

- **Communication - **able to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.
- **Influencing and persuading - **able to present sound and well reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.
- **Managing relationships and team working - **able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works co-operatively with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or competitively.
- **Resilience - **manages personal effectiveness by managing emotions in the face of pressure, set backs or when dealing with provocative situations. Demonstrates an approach to work that is characterised by commitment, motivation and energy.
- **Flexibility**:

- adapts and works effectively with a variety of situations, individuals or groups. Able to understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an issue, to adapt an approach as the requirements of a situation change, and to change or easily accept changes in one’s own organisation or job requirements.
- **Creative Thinking - **able to transform creative ideas into practical reality. Can look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and come up with creative solutions.
- **Analytical thinking**:

- able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically.
- **Collaborating across boundaries -** connects people, ideas, processes and issues, sets an example by sharing resources, knowledge ideas and skills across the organisation, builds helpful, productive relationships across the organisation.
- **Using external thinking - **builds bridges with useful organisations and innovative thinkers, keeps up to date with developments in their field, responds to the demands of our commercial environment, relishes feedback and responds honestly to what our