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We have a very exciting opportunity for an experienced candidate to join the BBC news, world service and weather app teams as a senior tester. Reporting to the Test Team Lead, you will join other disciplines on one of our scrum teams to plan, test and deploy new features for our news, world service and weather mobile applications. Specifically, you will design tests, report on progress, advice on device coverage and contribute to automation tests.

You will work in close collaboration with other disciplines in the team, in a highly cross-functional and autonomous environment with support and guidance at every level. Therefore, effective and clear communication skills are important. Collaborative approaches to finding the right solution are fundamental to this role. You will be joining an established team who pride themselves on having a supportive, caring and inclusive culture.

We value our people, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as ‘learning and guild days’ - allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation. We take the time to reflect and improve on how we’re working via team retrospectives and mentoring. We’re hard-working, supportive and promote a healthy work-life balance in a friendly and inclusive working environment.

We welcome applications from all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief.

• Design, write and analyse manual and exploratory tests for mobile app features
• Improve existing tests
• Develop automated tests and test tools for mobile app features
• Report on the progress of and risks of test efforts
• Mentor junior members of the team
• Ensure troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle is carried out.
• Work closely with developers and other disciplines to design, develop & release working software (audience facing products + tools)
• Encourage best practices
• Learn new technologies and adapt to change
• Promote skills and knowledge sharing

The ideal candidate will have experience of some, but not necessarily all, of the following:

• Experience of testing on mobile platforms at scale
• Experience of backend testing/API testing experience
• Experience of proxy tools used in mobile app testing (eg. Charles Proxy)
• Writing automated tests for mobile or/and web applications
• Working on an agile team with multiple disciplines
• Knowledge and experience of automation testing frameworks
• Leadership and collaboration inside and beyond the team. The ability to influence diverse and senior stakeholders effectively
• Good written and spoken communications skills; comfortable engaging at all levels in the organisation
• Mentoring experience

We do not 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 have read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

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 is 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

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

Mae’r sefyllfa gyda’r coronafeirws yn datblygu’n gyflym, ac mae’r BBC yn awyddus i barhau i sicrhau diogelwch a lles pobl ar draws y BBC, gan barhau i warchod ein gwasanaethau hefyd. I leihau’r risg, dim ond y bobl sy’n hanfodol i’n hallbwn darlledu fydd yn cael mynediad i adeiladau’r BBC. O ddydd Mercher 18fed Mawrth ymlaen, bydd pob asesiad a chyfweliad yn cael ei gynnal o bell, nes rhoddir gwybod yn wahanol. I gael mwy o wybodaeth, ewch i https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/