Job Reference: Req no 19553
Band: D
SDD24
Salary: £42,400 - £51,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: (Permanent role)
Location: Office Base is Salford, This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)
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.
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Job Introduction
We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer in Test to join our mobile app team(s) in Salford. Our mobile teams work collaboratively and cross-discipline to add or refine functionality to the BBC iOS and Android mobile applications, including BBC News, BBC Sport, BBC Weather, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.
Our mobile apps are used by an ever-increasing audience who rely on the BBC to inform, educate and entertain them. We’re looking for people who are passionate about quality and developing creative technical solutions. As a Software Engineer in Test, you will work within your teams to make sure we do the right testing, at the right time, using the right technologies.
This is a great opportunity to join a high-performing digital department at the heart of the BBC. Our mobile teams are delivering one of the BBC’s top priorities to a diverse audience in a competitive space. You’ll learn how to build performant and accessible applications at scale in a collaborative and supportive environment, with plenty of opportunities for learning and development.
How We Work
Our mobile teams are highly collaborative, multidisciplinary, and consist of frontend and backend focussed teams, leveraging native mobile languages (Kotlin and Swift) in our development and end-to-end automation practice. We follow Agile methodology, shipping incrementally and often. Our mobile teams ensure our testing is robust, that our pipelines are steadfast, and monitor our systems and products in production to understand the impact of change every time we release value to our audiences
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
1. Collaborate in shaping and implementation of test automation frameworks and delivery pipelines
2. Implement native automation scripts using Swift & XCUI and Kotlin & Espresso
3. Pair with Software Engineers and Testers to plan, define, and run automation tests
4. Shape our automation frameworks and pipelines
5. Running varied types of testing such as manual and exploratory testing
6. Be a good communicator who can report on test-related issues and risks
7. Learn new technologies and apply your learning to projects where appropriate
8. Be a champion of all things Test related and learn from, and contribute to, the BBC test community
9. Advocate for test process improvements
10. Find and troubleshoot critical bugs and verify reported issues, identifying their underlying cause and seeing them through to resolution, liaising with other teams where appropriate
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
Desirable, but not essential:
11. Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
12. Experience with Continuous Integration/Deployment in mobile apps.
13. Web services integration (REST, JSON) in a mobile environment.
14. Experience with Agile/Scrum/Kanban project management methodologies.
15. DevOps experience.
16. Knowledge of Amazon Web Services or equivalent.
17. Experience of working on source control
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.