Software Engineer (In-Test)

at  BBC

JOB INTRODUCTION

The BBC is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands. BBC Sounds and iPlayer are renowned and loved throughout the UK and the world. The BBC has become a household name which delivers online content to more than 25 million people globally, and we are proud to say that we help make that magic happen!
The Sounds and iPlayer teams are conceiving the next generation of features for our audiences. Our mission is to secure the Internet future of the BBC.
RMS (Radio Music Services) is the backend team responsible for building the APIs that power Sounds’ clients. It is an exciting time to join RMS because Sounds aims to become the number one online audio service in the UK. The BBC is a place where your work impacts millions of users daily across our products, outputting 40 million hours of content.
This role is a rare opportunity to work on software at a scale. We’re looking for a passionate Software Engineer in Test to join our fast-paced cross-discipline agile teams iterating on our key products.
We provide you with a great work-life balance and a competitive work package. There are also great opportunities to grow your career within the team or the wider organisation. As part of BBC Sounds and iPlayer, you will be at the heart of the Internet first BBC.
We have an internal Academy department to ensure you have the training needed to advance in your career from soft skills to technical training such as AWS, cloud architecture and micro-services, to name a few.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, TRAINING & EXPERIENCE

We focus on hiring for potential at the BBC, so the main requirement for the position is a strong testing mindset.

Some of the things we love:

• Experience of developing automated acceptance tests for APIs in Java
• Developing tests using BDD, Gherkin techniques
• Experience of using GitHub or a similar tool
• Experience of working on an agile team, preferably using scrum
• Effort estimation, planning, prioritisation, and time management on an agile team
• Using Jira or a similar tool
• Manual and exploratory testing of APIs
• Automation code refactoring experience
• Developing exploratory testing charters and sharing results of said testing
• Learning new software skills and working with new technologies

Other Desirable Skills & Experience

• CI/CD experience
• Some experience or exposure to load testing
• Past experience of co-operating with a client or front-end team
• Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline exposure
• AWS and AWS tools
• Deployment experience - into test or live environment

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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Working in a scrum team, you will implement and maintain BDD automation using Java, Cucumber and RestAssured for API features. You will work with your peers to plan, define, and run tests for API releases. You will also run manual tests where automation does not exist. You will run load tests.
Exploratory testing is an important practice on RMS. The test team devices test charters, organises test sessions and shares its findings with our stakeholders. The role will provide you the opportunity to develop your exploratory testing skills.
You will improve our automation code by working with the rest of the team on code refactors, automation analysis and pipeline improvement.
The ability to report test concerns and issues promptly is a quality we admire. On RMS, we expect members of the test team to communicate findings and risks to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner that boosts confidence in our test processes.
You will collaborate with other Sounds Testers on projects that span the Sounds product, writing plans and supporting high profile product-wide releases like new radio stations, for example.
We would look for you to be an active participant in fostering a learning culture throughout the organisation through active dissemination of knowledge and collaboration with other members of the test organisation.
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 we should talk!