Software Engineering

Permanent - Full Time

London, GB, W1A 1AA Salford, GB, M50 2QH

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B’CAST

Job Closing Date: 23/03/2025

THE ROLE

Job Band

Job Reference: SF22093
Band: D
Salary:£60,000 - £70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Office Base is London or Salford. 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.

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

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Job Purpose

BBC Account is at the centre of the BBC’s aim to make a personalised BBC online for everyone. We create components, systems and services that enable people’s experience of BBC Online to be tailored by their activities and interactions. Everything from content recommendations in iPlayer, to enabling people to comment on BBC News articles. Our services enable and underpin offerings from the BBC’s major brands including iPlayer, Sounds, BBC News, Sport, Bitesize and so much more, giving our services unparalleled reach.

Our team uses the latest technologies, inspires innovation and has autonomy. Our products span the whole of the BBC and reach millions of users. We are highly functioning, multi-disciplinary teams working in an Agile way. You will be working on great projects, and you will be surrounded by a team of like-minded technology professionals from whom you can learn and grow. 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.

We offer regular training and development opportunities including 10% time to allow for self-improvement, learning and innovation. We have a focus on good quality management to help enable, guide and empower others. We promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours

Main Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer in Test within the BBC Account team, you will be responsible for testing software for the authorisation and authentication applications which span the entire BBC. Our software opens the gateway to personalisation across the web, mobile applications, and voice interfaces. You will be responsible for writing appropriate tests to ensure code quality and coverage and participate in code reviews.

Our applications are a set of services providing both APIs and audience-facing applications. As a Senior Software Engineer in Test, you will:

• Work with Delivery Managers, Product Owners, Technical Leads to understand the requirements
• Designing, communicating, and implementing the Test approaches
• Contribute to automated test frameworks to verify functional and non-functional requirements.
• 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 tech lead / Delivery manager and Architect and Participate and lead as required, in the team’s delivery process.
• Ability to be the main test representative within an agile team and advocate for a whole team approach to quality
• Mentor and coach junior colleagues and provide technical leadership and direction to peers and colleagues.
• Effectively participate in and help improve the QA team’s software development methodologies, such as pairing, clean code and best practices, documentation, CI/CD etc…

Are you the right candidate?

We are looking for people who have some (if not all) of the following:

• In-depth experience with Automated UI and RESTful API Testing
• Expertise in testing frameworks and libraries such as JavaScript/typescript, Playwright
• Experience with Java, Rest-Assured, Cucumber
• Familiarity with performance testing using Gatling and Scala
• Experience working with AWS SDK
• Familiarities with contract testing using PACT
• Experience configuring and running jobs in a Continuous Integration tool like Jenkins
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Advocating quality and high standards within the Team
• Great communication skills and experience in resolving cross-team issues.
• Strong understanding of coding practices

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.

Interview Process

Interviews are expected to be one stage only and held virtually week comencing 31st March. The format will be a blend of BBC Value and technical questions.

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.