Senior Tester

Job Introduction
The BBC’s Children’s & Education team deliver amazing digital experiences that inform, educate, entertain and inspire the nation’s children.

We provide some of the UK’s most popular websites and apps, which bring to life the globally renowned CBeebies and CBBC brands.

Our apps are some of the most popular for kids. Our apps are consistently in the top 5 of their categories in the app stores (see link below for example):
We have over 350+ interactive experiences across BBC online, powered by our internally built game engines (see link below for example):
Some of our digital interactive experiences are shared between both our CBeebies flagship website and our children's apps and are delivered by 3rd party game engineering companies (see the link below for an example):
Our 4 flagship apps and 350+ interactive experiences are all powered by the same platform. This allows us to build multi platform experiences with a single codebase using modern web technologies. We call this the Universal App Platform (UAP), and you can read more about it in the blog post below:

- Our department is structured in to cross-functional, agile teams, who are focussed on creating world-class experiences for our young audience.

Main Responsibilities
We’re looking for a highly enthusiastic and self-motivated Senior Tester to work in our BBC Children's App product team.

As a member of this product team you will be responsible for ensuring that the Cbeebies apps we build meet the requirements and quality criteria of our department.

As a senior tester you will be expected to lead in the development of a testing strategy and to coach and mentor more junior colleagues. We are a team that strives for TDD practices, so you will be encouraged to pair with developers in implementing test scenarios and to be proactive in identifying opportunities for test automation. You’ll be involved in making technical decisions to improve testing strategies across the team. As a team we aim to embed testing sooner in to our processes in order to drive quality and minimise risk.

To ensure long-term success you will embrace change and have a desire to learn new technologies and a passion for innovation. Our team spans multiple sites (in this case Glasgow and Salford), so you will be comfortable with the challenges of collaborating with colleagues remotely.

The successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring the products are released to the highest quality through the usability experience, highlighting risks early and mitigating possible defects. You’ll have an appreciation of good user experience and be prepared to advocate for users. You will be proactive in pursuing critical bugs and seeing them through to resolution. While working with Testers, Software Engineers, and wider project teams, you’ll be a strong advocate for quality across the engineering process, guiding and supporting teams to successfully adopt and implement best practice in their ways of working.

It’s essential that you are someone who is keen to learn and eager to develop new skills. You have experience of all forms of testing, i.e. integration testing, functional testing, negative testing, regression testing, deployment testing, automated testing, exploratory testing, performance testing, cross browsers testing, etc. You strive to keep abreast of the developments in testing approaches / methodologies, particularly those related to mobile devices and the web.

In this role you will report to the Software Engineering Team Lead and you will be supported in your role by a Principal Tester. It’s important that you can collaborate as part of a multidisciplinary team and can coach and mentor junior team members.

The successful individual will have experience of owning automation projects alongside feature work, have examples where they have had to problem solve and think creatively or innovatively, as well as have strong organisational skills to effectively manage their workload and priorities.

Over the next 12 months you will:

- Work within an agile environment to plan and execute tests, using the most appropriate test approach, to ensure that the software delivered is as per requirements, fit-for-purpose and performant.
- Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, UX designers and developers to test end to end user journeys and scenarios.
- Create and maintain robust and reusable tests and fixtures to the highest standard.
- Ensure that a high level of test coverage is achieved and maintained.

**Skills & Experience**

Essentials
- Experience of working in an Agile environment and Agile project management tools such as Jira.
- Experience of working closely with Software Engineers and product stakeholders.
- Good manual testing skills, with experience of smoke testing, functional testing, regression testing and exploratory testing across a range of both web and mobile platforms and devices
- Test automation experience using Cypres