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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
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
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
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.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
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.
The ideal candidate would be someone who excels in people management and engagement, values communication, and collaborative approaches in finding the right solution, is willing and excited to learn new skills, and to share their knowledge with others. You will have a real opportunity to influence the future of content and data at the BBC.
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.
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One stage interview process combining a 20 minute presentation followed by interview questions.
Main Responsibilities
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1. Accountable for the design and implementation of test approaches across a group of product test teams or programmes of work.
2. Recruit, lead, mentor, coach, develop and manage 6+ test engineers embedded in multidiscipline teams.
3. Provide test expertise and support to stakeholders at all levels in communicating strategy, product fit and effectiveness.
4. Work closely with other discipline leads to establish quality best practices and process improvements.
5. Own testing across complex, multi-team, distributed technology programmes.
6. Advocate and implement agile and lean development and testing principles, encourage continuous improvement, and ensure efficiency of the test process and practices.
7. Ensure troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle is carried out.
8. Implement test management and reporting frameworks across multiple teams.
9. Define risk-based test scopes, from a combination of product knowledge, user reach analytics and technical variation between devices/platforms.
10. Ensure automated tests and tools are used appropriately and are effective.
11. Work with other test leaders in the broader organisation to share best practice and standards.
12. Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies and help introduce them where appropriate.
Are you the right candidate
The ideal candidate - You may have experience of some, but not necessarily all, of the following:
1. Experience of leading software testing – designing and implementing test approaches for complex online products in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles.
2. Experience in people management, including recruiting, leading, mentoring, coaching, and career development.
3. Experience of innovating in testing technology and processes.
4. Knowledge and experience of automation testing frameworks.
5. Experience in testing API and backend services.
6. Extensive experience with the AWS infrastructure.
7. Leadership and collaboration inside and beyond the team.
8. The ability to influence diverse and senior stakeholders effectively.
9. Expertise in agile software development methodologies including behaviour and test-driven development.
10. Expertise in problem solving and providing creative solutions.
11. Good written and spoken communications skills; comfortable engaging at all levels in the organization.
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.
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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.
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DISCLAIMER
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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