Senior Software Engineer in Test

BBC Group and Public Services; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test to improve software quality across their authorization and authentication applications. The role involves designing test approaches, contributing to automated frameworks, and mentoring junior team members in a dynamic, agile environment, focused on delivering top-notch user experiences for millions of users.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Competitive salary package

Defined pension scheme

Discounted healthcare and gym

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Automated Testing and RESTful APIs.
• Experience in Java and related frameworks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for testing software applications within the BBC.
• Design and implement test approaches and frameworks.
• Mentor junior colleagues and participate in agile team practices.

Skills

Automated UI Testing

RESTful API Testing

Java

Cucumber

AWS SDK

Job description

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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.

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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?

• Extensive and hands on experience with Automated UI and RESTful API Testing
• Hands on experience of coding practices
• Experience with Java, Rest-Assured, Cucumber
• Familiarity with ny automated 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

Interview Process

Interviews are expected to be one stage only and held virtually week comencing 23 June 2025. There will be a technical assignment that will be presented back in the interview, alongside BBC Value and technical competency 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.

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.

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: [e-mail]

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.