Senior Test Engineer

Package Description

Job Reference: (18721)

Band: (D)

Salary: up to £55,900 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent role

Location: Pacific Quay Glasgow. 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.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits – We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack. 

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job Introduction

As part of the Children’s & Education department this role is working across the Bitesize family of products. It consists of full stack development teams building scalable services in React.js and Node hosted on AWS.

Bitesize is the BBC’s flagship digital education service, with over 20 years of delivering quality curriculum-mapped education online. Our mission is to help all Children in the UK to reach their full potential, learning every day in their own way.

We have massive impact – Bitesize has regularly reached over 2 million unique UK visitors during term time weeks. During lockdown we rose to the challenge of home schooling with Bitesize Daily, our biggest ever education push – and we’re experiencing year-on-year growth. However, we know that we can always do more for Children, Parents and Teachers.

This role provides the opportunity to work with a wide range of people, as designing and building children’s websites brings different and exciting challenges. It’s an exciting time to join the team as we’ve ambitious plans for Bitesize in the future.

Interview Process

One stage assessment combining a strengths and competency interview with the Principal Engineer and an Engineer from the Bitesize Team. Interviews will be held in early January 2025.

Main Responsibilities

As a Senior Tester you will be responsible for designing, communicating, and implementing the Test approaches in Bitesize product development. You will work closely with all members of the product development team including Software Engineers, the UX Team and Product Managers.

• Collaborating and integrating with team members to ensure the delivery of a product to specification.
• Creating manual and/or automated test cases to verify functional and non-functional requirements.
• Liaising with other product teams to ensure joined-up testing approaches for multi-team projects.
• Troubleshooting, finding critical bugs or verifying reported issues and identifying their underlying cause.
• Producing descriptive and concise reports that evidence the functionality of a product.
• Communicating status information and issues to a variety of stakeholders
• Keeping up with developments in testing methodology by attending specialist interest groups and conferences, both externally and within the BBC.
• Contributing to the development of junior team members.

Are you the right candidate

• Good aptitude for learning new technologies and ways of working.
• Ability to create, adapt and execute effective test strategies.
• Good written and spoken communications skills; comfortable engaging at all levels in the organisation.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of product/defect/test case management systems.
• Good understanding of test automation and its value and application within agile delivery.
• Ability to anticipate problems and tackle them with a pragmatic approach.
• An appreciation of good user experience and able to be the users’ advocate.
• Ability to be the main test representative within an agile team and advocate for a whole team approach to quality”.

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.

Package Description

Job Reference: (18721)

Band: (D)

Salary: up to £55,900 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent role

Location: Pacific Quay Glasgow. 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.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits – We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack. 

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job Introduction

As part of the Children’s & Education department this role is working across the Bitesize family of products. It consists of full stack development teams building scalable services in React.js and Node hosted on AWS.

Bitesize is the BBC’s flagship digital education service, with over 20 years of delivering quality curriculum-mapped education online. Our mission is to help all Children in the UK to reach their full potential, learning every day in their own way.

We have massive impact – Bitesize has regularly reached over 2 million unique UK visitors during term time weeks. During lockdown we rose to the challenge of home schooling with Bitesize Daily, our biggest ever education push – and we’re experiencing year-on-year growth. However, we know that we can always do more for Children, Parents and Teachers.

This role provides the opportunity to work with a wide range of people, as designing and building children’s websites brings different and exciting challenges. It’s an exciting time to join the team as we’ve ambitious plans for Bitesize in the future.

Interview Process

One stage assessment combining a strengths and competency interview with the Principal Engineer and an Engineer from the Bitesize Team. Interviews will be held in early January 2025.

Main Responsibilities

As a Senior Tester you will be responsible for designing, communicating, and implementing the Test approaches in Bitesize product development. You will work closely with all members of the product development team including Software Engineers, the UX Team and Product Managers.

• Collaborating and integrating with team members to ensure the delivery of a product to specification.
• Creating manual and/or automated test cases to verify functional and non-functional requirements.
• Liaising with other product teams to ensure joined-up testing approaches for multi-team projects.
• Troubleshooting, finding critical bugs or verifying reported issues and identifying their underlying cause.
• Producing descriptive and concise reports that evidence the functionality of a product.
• Communicating status information and issues to a variety of stakeholders
• Keeping up with developments in testing methodology by attending specialist interest groups and conferences, both externally and within the BBC.
• Contributing to the development of junior team members.

Are you the right candidate

• Good aptitude for learning new technologies and ways of working.
• Ability to create, adapt and execute effective test strategies.
• Good written and spoken communications skills; comfortable engaging at all levels in the organisation.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of product/defect/test case management systems.
• Good understanding of test automation and its value and application within agile delivery.
• Ability to anticipate problems and tackle them with a pragmatic approach.
• An appreciation of good user experience and able to be the users’ advocate.
• Ability to be the main test representative within an agile team and advocate for a whole team approach to quality”.

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.

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