Software Engineer in Test

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PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £45,000-£50,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

LOCATION: Office Base is Salford, MediaCityUK, Dock House. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate with balance office working of 2 days per week, with home working.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The BBC is one of the UK's most well-known and loved brands. The TV & Device experience teams build some of the most used products in BBC: our mission is to be the first place for anybody to go to watch or listen to BBC content. We're looking for a talented Software Engineer in Test, who is passionate about testing, as well as delivering innovative technology, to join our cross-discipline agile team, where you'll help shape the future of TV products for millions of viewers.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Based in MediaCityUK, Salford, you'll join one of our TV & Device experience teams to deliver a world-class connected TV experience for BBC iPlayer and Sounds. Your work will involve developing innovative application features, performing integrations across a range of TV devices, and enhancing the TV platform that powers both iPlayer and BBC Sounds. 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.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

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.

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 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.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

Experience in testing Web/Mobile &/Or TV platforms/devices

Experience in testing non-functional aspects - Performance, Load, Accessibility & Automation including Playwright

Experience working in multi-discipline teams, ideally using Agile methodologies (sprints, scrum)

Experience with writing Automation tests

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

Proven ability to test, deploy and support software in a complex, high volume, high performance environment

Proven track record of coaching more junior team members

Actively embraces many aspects of extreme programming such as pair programming, TDD and CI

Ability to understand complex requirements and translate them into suitable system designs and further break the work down into smaller tasks and stories

Experience of AWS cloud technologies, such as EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, AWS Lambda

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.

Information at a Glance This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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