Package Description
Contract type: Permanent, 5 days in office
Location: Dock House, Mediacity, Salford
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
• 26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
• Employee assistance and well-being programmes
• Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on with the job reference in the subject.
Job Purpose
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 iPlayer 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.
The ideal candidate would be enthusiastic, driven and value collaborative working. You have a keen eye for detail, ensuring software quality throughout! You enjoy thinking outside the box, and have a proactive desire to learn, grow, develop, and support in evolving and elevating the test discipline as well as wanting to work in a high-performing team, leading testing for complex and critical projects. Alongside this, we would look for you to be an active participant in fostering a collaborative culture throughout the organisation through active dissemination of knowledge, coaching, mentoring and inspiring other members of the test team.
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.
We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We value our people, offering a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We offer regular training and development opportunities, as well as “10%” time – allowing dedicated time for self-improvement and innovation. We promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours, in a friendly and inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
1. Lead the definition and execution of Test approaches that meets complex product needs
2. Active participation in helping improve your team’s software development methodologies
3. Mentor and coach other testers to help build knowledge, skills and expertise within the department
4. Contributing towards test process improvements and effectiveness through experimentation
5. Working closely with test leadership to deliver and execute Test Strategy to evolve and elevate the test discipline
6. Active engagement with wider test community forums to learn and share knowledge
7. Collaborating in shaping and implementation of test automation frameworks and delivery pipelines
8. Working with your team to define and ensure appropriate level of test coverage both automation & manual
9. Work with AWS systems and monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch, Piano analytics or equivalent
10. Taking ownership of Defect management for small/medium projects, including triaging, debugging, analysing or hypothesising towards root cause
11. Ensuring ownership of test environment and test data requirements for testing tasks and projects
12. Learn new technologies and apply your learning to projects where appropriate
13. Perform ad-hoc exploratory testing to support new features
Are your the right candidate?
Some of the things we love:
14. Excellent domain testing skills with a proven strong background with experience in working with various broadcast systems such as DTT, DSat, DCable.
15. Experience of testing applications on devices including TV, STB, Game Console, tablet and mobile using responsive designs and techniques.
16. Proven testing skills developed through experience.
17. Experience of leading test within the teams for small features from kick-off to delivery.
18. Self motivated, proactive and inquisitive attitude to work
19. Outstanding communication skills
20. Experience leading and influencing across teams to adopt / improve tools.
21. Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Defining Test Data and Reports
22. Strong hands-on experience with cloud based technologies (AWS infrastructure (CloudWatch, CodePipeline)) as well as other CI/CD tooling e.g. JIRA, Git
23. Experience working in multi-discipline teams, ideally using Agile methodologies (sprints, scrum)
24. Ability to coach and mentor junior team members.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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 .
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.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.