BBC Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Job Details
Job Reference: 23441
Band: Band D
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 dependent on skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Newcastle. 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.
Interview Process
There will be 2 rounds, Round 1 will be take home test containing Technical evaluation and Round 2 will be 1-hour evidence based interviews focusing on testing and BBC values
Purpose Of The Role
We are looking for a talented Senior Tester to join the Unified Content Catalogue team in Newcastle, working within the BBC Product Group.
The BBC has huge amounts of content that gets shown to the audience across multiple brands like iPlayer, Sounds and News and Sport – and used across multiple devices like TV, mobile and Web.
We store content about everything including: Programmes, Topics, Weather, Sounds episodes, Videos, News and Sport Articles, Elections, Sports data and stats, Live pages for breaking news, and big events.
The UCC team will bring together much of our content and metadata across the BBC, so that we can expose content via a single API, using AWS, Node & Typescript, with a consistent schema. This is an opportunity to do greenfield at the BBC and the team will be responsible for the design, architecture and development of the initial version.
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. 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.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
As a Senior tester within UCC 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.
Your Skills And Experience
* 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, CodePipeline, 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
* Mentoring & Coaching experience
Tools / Technologies We Use
* Languages: Python, Java, Typescript, javascript
* Cloud: AWS (S3, EC2, SQS, Lambda, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, etc)
* Deployment: Codebuild, CodePipeline.
* Data Visualisation: Grafana
* Testing: TDD, BDD, end-to-end, load testing
* Database: DynamoDB, Redis
* Techniques: DevOps, infrastructure, CI/CD
* Test tooling: Postman, Newman
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.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
Redeployment
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.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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