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Job Package

Job Title: Tester

Job Reference: 28251

Band: BAND C

Salary: £42,000-£52,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 12 month FTC

Location: 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.

BBC Audience Platform is one of the BBC’s biggest and most ambitious online projects. Our aim is to personalise the BBC’s online experience and engage more effectively with our audience. Our services include Commenting, Moderation, Voting, Riddle and Reporting. You will be part of a team transforming the BBC into a data-driven organisation supporting the delivery of the BBC’s services such as iPlayer, News, Sport, Children, Weather, Sounds and TV to millions of people. Our tech stack is largely Java, Node.js and Cloud (AWS).

In BBC Audience Platform we use the latest tech, with teams that inspire innovation and autonomy, striving towards Continuous Delivery. Our products span the whole of the BBC and reach millions of users! Not only will you be working on great projects and with cutting edge technologies, you will be surrounded by a team of like-minded technology professionals from whom you can learn and grow. We regularly have technical sessions and frequent hackathons. This is an environment where we love to share ideas and challenge the traditional with our goal of taking the BBC on the journey to be a Digital First organisation.

Our software opens the gateway to user participation across the web and mobile applications.

Role Responsibilities

As a Tester 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.

Are you the right candidate?

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 working with AWS services

Timeline

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.

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 behaviour 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 join us. 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.

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.

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• • Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.


• • Excellent career and professional development.


• • Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.


• • A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual\'s unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk

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