Software Engineer in Test

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Job Description

Software Engineering
Permanent - Full Time
Salford, GB, M50 2QH
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 24/01/2025

THE ROLE

Job Reference: Req no 20625
Band: C
SDD24
Salary: £43,000 - £50,000 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 Here

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

Job Introduction

We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer in Test to join our Product Group Engineering department, working in our Web space across our Sport platforms.

We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career. The BBC’s digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in the future of products used by millions.

The BBC Engineering community is a dynamic and supportive one, and there are frequent opportunities to collaborate with other teams. We value our people, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation.

Two Stage Interview process

  • Technical task for shortlisted candidates – approx. one hour preparation time
  • Virtual interview – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

As a Software Engineer in Test at the BBC, you will have a key 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 software delivery lifecycle, including architecture, design, specs, tests, development, and delivery. As a QA advocate, you will be reviewing new features that come in, assessing them, working with the wider multi-discipline team to understand their impact on performance and formulating an approach to testing that focuses on quality. You will also play a major part in shaping the team culture and setting test expectations. Working closely with test leadership, you will ensure the approach to testing is aligned with team ways of working, and the BBC’s strategic direction.

We would look for you to be an active participant in fostering a learning culture throughout the organisation through active knowledge sharing, coaching, mentoring and inspiring other members of the team.

  • Lead the definition and execution of test approaches that meet complex product needs
  • Participate in and help improve the team’s software development methodologies such as pairing, code and documentation reviewing, and continuous delivery
  • Provide test expertise and guidance to your team
  • Convey complex or test specific information to a diverse, multi-discipline audience
  • Identify appropriate automation and bring the conversation or proof of concept to the team
  • Active participation in the team's agile planning and delivery process
  • Support change through experimentation and analysis to improve process effectiveness
  • Use data analytics to surface product insights
  • Support troubleshooting, surfacing critical bugs and verifying reported issues to aid operational stability. Collaborating with the team to identify underlying causes and see them through to resolution and understanding the opportunities to learn from the impact
  • Support the team and wider department operations model
  • Working with other technical and non-technical teams to achieve cross-team product goals collaboratively
  • Work with the team to help define SLOs, SLAs, SLIs
  • Learn new technologies and apply your learning to projects where appropriate
  • Perform ad-hoc manual and exploratory testing to support new features
  • Working in a DevOps model including solving operational issues
  • Assisting with recruiting and mentoring new team members

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 this might be the role for you.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

Are you the right candidate

  • Experience working in multi-discipline teams, following using agile methodologies
  • Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Cloudwatch and S3, as well as infrastructure management tooling such as CloudFormation and CDK
  • Strong experience testing Rest APIs or GraphQL APIs
  • Experience setting up and/or maintaining automated testing frameworks, particularly for APIs
  • Experience using Postman or similar API tools
  • Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript and ReactJS
  • Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures
  • Experience of validating endpoint schemas
  • Knowledge of relational databases, noSQL databases
  • Understanding of continuous integration and deployment methodologies
  • Experience with load testing cloud-based systems and services
  • Experience of pairing and performing code reviews
  • Solid understanding of modern software development practices and design patterns.
  • Ability to communicate and evolve solutions and ideas with peers & non-technical stakeholders
  • Documentation skills
  • Strong analytical skills

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.