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The BBC is the perfect place for you to stretch yourself and work with the best. After all, celebrating our employees and investing in their well-being and development is not just a priority or an initiative — it is woven directly into our company fabric.

BBC News is one of the most popular sites in the UK and is trusted worldwide to deliver quality journalism across multiple devices.

We're looking for a dedicated tester to join an exciting team working closely with journalists on innovative interactive content to tight deadlines. You’ll help deliver interactive News content; your role will be to thoroughly test News content before publication. This could be an interactive lookup to discover how your local NHS service is performing, a visual guide to BBC 100 Women 2022 or any other item in the news. Every day will be different, and you’ll be working on content viewed by millions.

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By working tightly together, the editorial, design, data and development teams aim to produce content that informs, educates and entertains. When we have a tight deadline, the team comes together, and we would often expect testers to be working across multiple projects simultaneously.

Essential experience

• 2+ years testing experience

• Experience in working and negotiating with stakeholders

• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

• Knowledge of accessibility testing e.g. assistive technology, tab indexes, off-screen content

• Experience using Dev Tools in a browser

• Experience of eliciting requirements from multiple sources

• Experience of automated testing (preferably JS based)

• A good understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of using test automation

Desirable experience

• A good knowledge of software testing best practices

• A desire and ability to learn quickly and keep up to date with the latest testing tools and techniques and contribute to process improvement initiatives

• Excellent communication and influencing skills with both technical and non-technical colleagues

• Great testing skills and experience of testing cloud hosted web applications and associated backend services

• Hands-on experience of different web automation testing tools and frameworks (preferably JS based)

• Experience of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

• Experience of working with and sharing ideas with other Testers

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 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’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

Band: C
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.