Senior Tester - #148458

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: TV & Devices

LOCATION: Salford – Dock House (x5 days per week in office)

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £49,000-£54,000 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

BBC iPlayer is one of the UK’s most loved brands, and we’re looking for a talented Senior Tester who is passionate about testing, motivating others, and delivering innovative technology. You’ll be embedded in a TV & Devices engineering team, helping deliver world-class TV platform experiences to millions daily. A seamless, engaging product experience is key to audience satisfaction and the BBC’s value.

You’ll lead testing for complex, high-impact projects, ensuring software quality across the development lifecycle. You’ll be hands-on in all stages of SDLC—architecture, design, development, testing, and delivery—while advocating for the audience and collaborating with discipline leads.

We’re looking for someone enthusiastic, detail-oriented, and collaborative, with a drive to learn, grow, and elevate the test discipline. You’ll also help foster a strong team culture through mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

As an engineer in our team, you can spend 10% of your time learning new skills, playing with new technology and developing yourself, because we understand the need to stay up to date and fresh in a constantly changing technical landscape.

We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We value our people, offering a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We offer regular training and development opportunities, as well as “10%” time – allowing dedicated time for self-improvement and innovation. We promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours, 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.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Lead the definition and execution of test approaches that meet complex product needs, while actively contributing to improvements in your team’s software development methodologies.
• Mentor and coach other testers to build knowledge, skills, and expertise across the department, and support test process improvements through experimentation.
• Collaborate with test leadership to deliver and execute test strategy, helping to evolve and elevate the test discipline.
• Engage with wider test community forums to share knowledge and stay current with industry practices.
• Shape and implement test automation frameworks and delivery pipelines, ensuring appropriate levels of both automated and manual test coverage.
• Take ownership of defect management for small to medium projects, including triaging, debugging, and root cause analysis, while managing test environments and data requirements.
• Work with AWS systems and monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and Piano Analytics, perform ad-hoc exploratory testing, and continuously learn and apply new technologies to projects.
  
  

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Self motivated, proactive and inquisitive attitude to work
• 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.
  
  

Desired But Not Required

• 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
  
  

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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: [email protected]

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.