PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Band- D
Salary range: £55k to £65k
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London

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. Minimum of 3 days in office for this role is expected due to the team’s in-office presence.
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.

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 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.

Technical Skill Set:

• Experienced in Testing different types of Software products as part of an Agile team
• Experience working with Cypress and Webdriver IO
• Experience working with Performance testing tools like K6 or Gatling
• Experience with Testing and Automating testing of RESTful APIs
• Experience working with build tools.
• Experience in building test automation frameworks with Java and JavaScript.
• Experience working with AWS services

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Senior Software Engineer In Test you will be responsible for Functional, Automation and Performance testing of our applications. The Audience Platform Participation team is responsible for looking after the Comments,Moderation,Riddle and Voting systems. Comments can be found on all major BBC product pages such as News, Sports, CBBC & Blogs, and allow users to interact and leave their views on stories they feel passionate about. The Voting system is not only used for high profile BBC Tier 1 events like Strictly Come Dancing and S.P.O.T.Y, but also supports voting on football games and other smaller events. Where you have user generated content you need moderation. Moderation is key to ensure The BBC is a safe and secure place where people can contribute without fear of being abused and victimised.
All of our services are AWS JAVA or Node.js based systems, developed in line with the BBC Best Practices. Having a strong testing knowledge of these technologies or suitable equivalents is vital.

Technical Skill Set:

• Experienced in Testing different types of Software products as part of an Agile team
• Experience working with Cypress and Webdriver IO
• Experience working with Performance testing tools like K6 or Gatling
• Experience with Testing and Automating testing of RESTful APIs
• Experience working with build tools.
• Experience in building test automation frameworks with Java and JavaScript.
• Experience working with AWS services.

ARE YOU THE RIGHT CANDIDATE FOR THE ROLE?

Within a month:

• You will complete Onboarding, Mandatory Training and inductions
• Meet team members and learn about the core products and practises
• Be able to set up and execute code on multiple repositories
• Have a set of goals for the first 6 months

Within 3 months:

• Be able to Test and add automation Test code for couple of products within the team.
• As you aware of how we do things, you should be able to advise us and suggest where we can improve!

Within 6 months:

• Have a good understanding of how the Commenting and Moderation workflows happen within BBC
• Deeper Technical understanding of Architectures for the Commenting and Moderation system
• Be part of the Fantastic Project team that supports BBC’s most loved show Strictly Come Dancing.

Join us to deliver robust products at scale that in a modern AWS environment as part of a great multi-disciplinary agile team.