Test Team Lead

Software Engineering
- Permanent - Full Time
- Glasgow, GB, G511DA Salford, GB, M50 2QH
- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
- Job Closing Date: 01/05/2025

**THE ROLE**:
**Package Description**:
Job Reference: 22974
Band: D
Salary range: £63,000 - £68,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Glasgow OR Salford, Hybrid

Closing Date: Thursday 1st May 2025 at 23:59

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.

**Job Introduction**:
BBC Content & Content Metadata is looking for a Test Team Lead who is passionate about testing, as well as developing people. As a Test Team Lead you will lead 7-8 testers embedded in the Catalogue and Radio and Music Services engineering teams to deliver a world class Platforms experience. The teams are responsible for assets and content which power our audience offering.

Reporting to the Test Manager and working with others in the Test Leadership group, you will be responsible for recruiting, managing, leading, setting direction and co-ordinating test across a group of product test teams or a programme of work. You will also be responsible for managing, coaching, and mentoring direct line reports by supporting and helping them to develop their strengths and invest in their talents.

We are self-organising and highly collaborative teams of engineers, testers, UX designers, technical architects, and product owners. We value our people, offer regular training and development opportunities, as well as ‘10% time’ - allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation. We take the time to reflect and improve on how we’re working via team retrospectives and mentoring. We’re hard-working, supportive, care about each other, and promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours, in a friendly and inclusive working environment.

**Interview process**

One stage interview process combining a 20 minute presentation followed by interview questions.

**Main Responsbilities**:

- Accountable for the design and implementation of test approaches across a group of product test teams or programmes of work.
- Recruit, lead, mentor, coach, develop and manage 6+ test engineers embedded in multidiscipline teams.
- Provide test expertise and support to stakeholders at all levels in communicating strategy, product fit and effectiveness.
- Work closely with other discipline leads to establish quality best practices and process improvements
- Own testing across complex, multi-team, distributed technology programmes.
- Advocate and implement agile and lean development and testing principles, encourage continuous improvement, and ensure efficiency of the test process and practices.
- Ensure troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle is carried out.
- Implementing test management and reporting frameworks across multiple teams.
- Define risk-based test scopes, from a combination of product knowledge, user reach analytics and technical variation between devices/platforms.
- Ensure automated tests and tools are used appropriately and are effective.
- Work with other test leaders in the broader organisation to share best practice and standards.
- Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies and help introduce them where appropriate.
- Experience of leading software testing - designing and implementing test approaches for complex online products in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles.
- Experience in people management, including recruiting, leading, mentoring, coaching, and career development.
- Experience of innovating in testing technology and processes.
- Knowledge and experience of automation testing frameworks.
- Experience in testing API and backend services
- Extensive experience with the AWS infrastructure
- Leadership and collaboration inside and beyond the team.
- The ability to influence diverse and senior stakeholders effectively.
- Expertise in agile software development methodologies including behaviour and test-driven development.
- Expertise in problem solving and providing creative solutions.
- Good written and spoken communications skills; comfortable engaging at all levels in the organization.

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