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Job Reference: 2707
Band: C
Salary: Up to £52,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London Broadcasting House (one / two days per week in our office at New Broadcasting House)
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 Reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk with the job reference in the subject.
Job Introduction
The BBC produces an incredibly varied range of content: from video, audio, and text; from comedy, drama, news, and educational content; and content produced all around the UK. With so much content being produced, it can be difficult to get the right content to the right person. The BBC is aiming to become more personalised to you, to get you to the content you love, quicker – the iPlayer Recommendations team will be looking at how we can provide recommendations across millions of iPlayer audience.
When you join the BBC as a Software Engineer in Test, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced and the work you do matters. Your work will have a direct impact on our millions of audience users in the UK
Quality is at the heart of everything we do. Our aim is to provide a quality experience for our users by building solid processes, following best practice and preventing issues and problems from occurring at an early stage. Therefore, we believe that being a Tester is much more than just testing and trying to break code.
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 offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. 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 want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.
Interview Process
Two stage interview process
Interview process:
- Technical task for shortlisted candidates – approx. one hour preparation time
- Virtual interview – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions
Main Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer in Test within the iPlayer Recommendations team, you will have a role in shaping, refining, and delivering the strategic and operational testing strategy for a defined product set.
You will be engaged in all aspects of SDLC, including architecture, design, specs, tests, development, and delivery. As a QA advocate, you will be reviewing new features that come in, assessing them, writing test plans, and working with developers to understand their impact on performance. You will also contribute to the test writing and maintaining the test suite that supports this effort.
We would look for you to be an active participant in fostering a learning culture throughout the organisation through active dissemination of knowledge, coaching, mentoring and inspiring other members of the TE team.
You’re rigorous in the way you test features and committed to making the product you’re testing the best it can possibly be.
If you’re passionate about software quality, enjoy thinking outside the box and want to work in a high-performing team doing complex and critical work, then we should talk!
Are you the right candidate
Some of the things we love:
- Experience of building functional and performance test frameworks using tools: Rest-Assured, Cucumber, AWS SDK and Gatling (essential)
- Experience of developing tests in Languages: Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python
- Experience of using deployment tools: Jenkins, Codebuild, CodePipelin etc
- Strong understanding and appreciation of test automation principles, including distributed testing methods
- Experience with BDD and/or TDD practices
- Used to working in an environment using various source control solutions (Git, etc.) including branching & working with repositories
- Knowledge of the software development and software testing lifecycles
- Experience working in an Agile software development environment (Scrum)
- Experience of working with recommendations system is plus
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 here.
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.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.
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.
