Senior Tester

ENGINEERINGUK; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000

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Sector: Media and Publishing
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Package Description
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office Base is London. This is a hybrid role 1-2 days per week in the office.

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 benefits 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 opportunities 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, flexitime 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 [e-mail] with the job reference in the subject.

Job Introduction
We are looking for a talented Senior Tester to join the Recommendations team in London, working within the BBC Product Group.

The BBC produces an incredibly varied range of content across multiple platforms. With audio, video and text spanning genres such as comedy, drama, news and everything in between, it can be difficult to get the right content to the right person.

The BBC is aiming to become more personalised to get our audiences to the content they love, quicker. The Recommendations team has the ability to make a real difference; providing our audience with content that is relevant and personalised to them across iPlayer, Sounds, News and Sport.

You will be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity and where you will be empowered to fulfil your potential. We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed.

Interview Process
There will be 2 rounds:

1. Round 1 will be take home test containing Technical evaluation
2. Round 2 will be 1 hour evidence based interviews focusing on testing and BBC values

Main Responsibilities
As a Senior tester within Recommendations, you will be engaged in all aspects of the SDLC, including architecture, design, specs, tests, development, and delivery. As a QA advocate, you will be reviewing new features that come in, assessing them, deciding on the scope of testing and feeding back your estimations and findings to the wider team and delivery managers. You will also play a major part in shaping the team culture, setting test expectations and working closely with test leadership to ensure the approach to testing is aligned with team ways of working and the BBC strategic direction.

Are You The Right Candidate?

• Experience working in multi-discipline teams, ideally using Agile methodologies (scrum, sprints)
• Competence in one or more mainstream development language/frameworks (ideally Typescript/JavaScript).
• Expertise in modern development tools and practices (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, Observability, Pairing, TDD)
• Strong hands-on experience with the AWS infrastructure (S3, EC2, SQS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Code Pipeline, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch etc)
• Strong API testing experience
• Experience using Postman or similar API tools
• Experience working with load and performance testing
• Pairing and performing code reviews
• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience working with backend technologies
• Experience of ML would be beneficial but not essential

Tools / Technologies we use:

• Languages: Python, Java, Typescript, JavaScript
• Cloud: AWS (S3, EC2, SQS, Lambda, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, etc)
• Deployment: Code build, Code Pipeline.
• Data Visualisation: Grafana
• Testing: TDD, BDD, end-to-end, load testing
• Database: DynamoDB, Redis
• Stream-Processing: Apache Airflow
• Techniques: DevOps, infrastructure, CI/CD
• Test tooling: Postman, Newman

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. 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 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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