Agile Tester - iPlayer TV

Job Introduction

Renowned and loved throughout the UK and the world, the BBC has become a household name that delivers online content to more than 25million people globally, and we are proud to say that we help make that magic happen! In TV Platforms, we work closely with all UK platform and major global TV device partners to ensure that our audiences have a high-quality iPlayer, Sounds, and Red Button products available to them, on the widest range of certified TV devices. Streaming of video content and the number of supporting devices is growing exponentially.Our challenge is to integrate and innovate with the rapidly expanding and evolving industry, whilst ensuring high availability and the quality of our products. We are a highly collaborative team of engineers, testers, UX designers, and product owners. We value our engineers, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as '10% time' - allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning, and innovation. We take the time to reflect and improve on how we're working through team retrospectives and mentoring. We're ahard-working team who are supportive, care about each other, and promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours and a friendly working environment.

How do we work?

We are an agile team and we do releases almost every day. We support this by making sure our testing is robust and that our pipelines are steadfast. We monitor our systems in production to understand the impact of change every time we do a release. We stay connected to our audiences, debugging device issues and ensuring non-functional testing concerns are a part of our workflow. We work in multi-discipline crews with Software Engineers, Testers, Product Owners, and Delivery, in a respectful and collaborative environment. We encourage a culture of team empowerment that supports self-development for each individual.

Role Responsibility

As a Tester you will be expected to:

• Work with teams, shaping products and systems then planning and executing the testing using the most appropriate approach.
• Ensuring that the software delivered is fit-for-purpose in the planned timescales.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and delivery of testing
• Work with other testers in creating and managing our test data, stubs, and harnesses.
• Work with other disciplines to integrate components into systems.
• Lead the testing at a ticket / task level, advocating for quality throughout the delivery process
• Validate the system as a whole to ensure it delivers the business requirements and benefits, reporting status against schedule.
• Be involved in releasing change to the production environment.
• Monitoring software releases using the appropriate tooling to gain confidence in the production environment
• Have an ability and willingness to determine when to automate tests and when to adopt a manual approach to testing.
• Create detailed and accurate bug/defect tickets.
• Contribute in troubleshooting and debugging product issues, providing accurate information and assessments to aid fixes.
• Champion quality continually improves team processes, and ensure it adheres to overall Test Strategy.
• Keep up-to-date developments and best practices within the development, testing and new media.

Are you the right candidate?

• Hands on experience in Test with a strong focus on delivering quality.
• Experience in testing TV applications on TVs, Streamers and Games consoles.
• Experience working within a fast paced, continuous integration (CI/CD) delivery environment.
• Experience in leading the testing at a ticket level including releasing and monitoring change.
• Good understanding of building and testing TV / Web applications
• Experience within Agile working environments, pairing and working within a collaborative team
• Experience in working with and influencing agile processes across disciplines such as Kanban, Scrum.
• Strong passion towards software testing and is an advocate of good practices in Testing.
• Good understanding of the AWS platform and what it offers as a dedicated host e.g. Cloudwatch, Lambda, Codepipeline
• Good understanding of web technologies and tools e.g. XML, HTML, CSS, JSON, REST, React, AngularJS, Node.js, Casperjs, Puppeteer.
• Developing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Defining Test Data and Reports
• Using test and issue management tools e.g. TestRail, Jira
• Creating Test approaches from business requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Working with source control tools e.g. Github
• Testing front-end and back-end Web / TV systems
• Able to work alone as well as collaboratively, pairing with others as appropriate to the task

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract
Location: Manchester - Salford Dock House

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 18 th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to

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 18 fed 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

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