Senior Tester - UCC

BBC Group and Public Services; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Senior Tester, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of content delivery. This exciting opportunity allows you to work on innovative projects that impact millions, leveraging modern technologies and methodologies. With a strong emphasis on career development and a culture that values diversity, you will be empowered to thrive and make a difference in the lives of others through your contributions. If you are passionate about quality assurance and eager to work in a collaborative environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Defined pension scheme

Discounted dental and health care

Gym membership

Qualifications

• Experience in multi-discipline teams using Agile methodologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Engaged in all aspects of the SDLC including architecture and design.
• Reviewing new features and assessing scope of testing.

Skills

Agile methodologies

API testing

Analytical skills

Mentoring & Coaching

Tools

Postman

DynamoDB

Redis

AWS (S3, EC2, etc.)

Job description

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Senior Tester

Software Engineering

Permanent - Full Time

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GB, NE991RN

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 08/05/2025

THE ROLE

Job Reference: 23441
Band: Band D
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 dependent on skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Newcastle. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

Closing date for applications: Thursday 8th May 2025 at 23:59

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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .

There will be 2 rounds, Round 1 will be take home test containing Technical evaluation and Round 2 will be 1-hour evidence based interviews focusing on testing and BBC values

Job Introduction

We are looking for a talented Senior Tester to join the Unified Content Catalogue team in Newcastle, working within the BBC Product Group.

The BBC has huge amounts of content that gets shown to the audience across multiple brands like iPlayer, Sounds and News and Sport – and used across multiple devices like TV, mobile and Web.

We store content about everything including: Programmes, Topics, Weather, Sounds episodes, Videos, News and Sport Articles, Elections, Sports data and stats, Live pages for breaking news, and big events.

The UCC team will bring together much of our content and metadata across the BBC, so that we can expose content via a single API, using AWS, Node & Typescript, with a consistent schema. This is an opportunity to do greenfield at the BBC and the team will be responsible for the design, architecture and development of the initial version.

You will be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity and where you will be empowered to fulfil your potential. We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. 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 want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzzfrom knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.

Main Responsbilities

As a Senior tester within UCC you will be engaged in all aspects of the SDLC, including architecture, design, specs, tests, development, and delivery. As a QA advocate, you will be reviewing new features that come in, assessing them, deciding on the scope of testing and feeding back your estimations and findings to the wider team and delivery managers. You will also play a major part in shaping the team culture, setting test expectations and working closely with test leadership to ensure the approach to testing is aligned with team ways of working and the BBC strategic direction.

Are you the right candidate

• Experience working in multi-discipline teams, ideally using Agile methodologies (scrum, sprints)
• Expertise in modern development tools and practices (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, Observability, Pairing, TDD)
• Strong hands-on experience with the AWS infrastructure (S3, EC2, SQS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch etc)
• Strong API testing experience
• Experience using Postman or similar API tools
• Experience working with load and performance testing
• Pairing and performing code reviews
• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience working with backend technologies
• Mentoring & Coaching experience
  

Tools / Technologies we use:

• Testing: TDD, BDD, end-to-end, load testing
• Database: DynamoDB, Redis
• Test tooling: Postman, Newman

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.

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 here .

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all 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 .

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.

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.