Senior Tester
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Full-time / Fixed-term Contract – 5 days in the office each week
DEPARTMENT: TV & Devices
LOCATION: Dock House, MediaCityUK, Salford, M50, 2LH
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £48,000-£53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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
Join the BBC TV & Devices team as a Senior Tester, leading quality for iPlayer and TV platform experiences used by millions every day. You'll shape how we test across broadcast and connected devices, champion audience needs, and guide teams toward robust, reliable releases that make our content easy and enjoyable to watch.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You'll be part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team working at the heart of the BBC's TV experience, combining cutting-edge connected technology with complex broadcast systems. You'll have opportunities to lead, mentor others and influence test strategy across TV & Devices, while growing your skills in cloud, automation and large-scale platforms – all in a supportive, inclusive environment grounded in BBC values.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
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.
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Full-time / Fixed-term Contract – 5 days in the office each week
DEPARTMENT: TV & Devices
LOCATION: Dock House, MediaCityUK, Salford, M50, 2LH
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £48,000-£53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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
Join the BBC TV & Devices team as a Senior Tester, leading quality for iPlayer and TV platform experiences used by millions every day. You'll shape how we test across broadcast and connected devices, champion audience needs, and guide teams toward robust, reliable releases that make our content easy and enjoyable to watch.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You'll be part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team working at the heart of the BBC's TV experience, combining cutting-edge connected technology with complex broadcast systems. You'll have opportunities to lead, mentor others and influence test strategy across TV & Devices, while growing your skills in cloud, automation and large-scale platforms – all in a supportive, inclusive environment grounded in BBC values.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Lead the definition and execution of Test approaches that meets complex product needs
- Active participation in helping improve your team's software development methodologies
- Mentor and coach other testers to help build knowledge, skills and expertise within the department
- Contributing towards test process improvements and effectiveness through experimentation
- Working closely with test leadership to deliver and execute Test Strategy to evolve and elevate the test discipline
- Active engagement with wider test community forums to learn and share knowledge
- Collaborating in shaping and implementation of test automation frameworks and delivery pipelines
- Working with your team to define and ensure appropriate level of test coverage both automation & manual
- Work with AWS systems and monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch, Piano analytics or equivalent
- Taking ownership of Defect management for small/medium projects, including triaging, debugging, analysing or hypothesising towards root cause
- Ensuring ownership of test environment and test data requirements for testing tasks and projects
- Learn new technologies and apply your learning to projects where appropriate
- Perform ad-hoc exploratory testing to support new features
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Self motivated, proactive and inquisitive attitude to work with outstanding communication skills
- Experience in testing Web/Mobile &/Or TV platforms/devices
- Excellent domain testing skills with a proven strong background with experience in working with various broadcast systems such as DTT, DSat, DCable.
- Experience working in multi-discipline teams, ideally using Agile methodologies (sprints, scrum)
- Strong leadership of tasks, small projects spanning across multiple teams
- Experience of testing applications on devices including TV, STB, Game Console, tablet and mobile using responsive designs and techniques.
- Experience in testing non-functional aspects - Performance, Load, Accessibility & Automation including Playwright
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud based technologies including AWS infrastructure as well as other CI/CD tooling e.g. JIRA, Git
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
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.