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Job Requisition ID: 25026
Job Closing Date: 31/07/2025
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent
DEPARTMENT: TV & Devices
LOCATION:
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.
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* 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 JavaScript/ TypeScript
* 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
* Strong stakeholder management
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.
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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.
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