Job Title
Senior Tester
Job Details
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent
DEPARTMENT: Production Workflows Test
LOCATION: White City, W12 – Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £59,600 dependent on skills, knowledge and experience
Flexible working: We’ll discuss during the offer stage.
Purpose of the Role
We are looking for a Senior Tester to join our BBC Monitoring development team. As Senior Tester, you will define and implement effective testing practices, scope and execute both manual and automated tests, and support ongoing improvements across web functionality, UX, and non‑functional areas. You will work collaboratively with engineers, analysts and support teams to maintain robust test environments, drive continuous quality, and contribute to the successful evolution of BBC Monitoring’s technical landscape.
Why Join the Team
BBC Monitoring (BBCM) provides news and information based on our monitoring of open‑source media from over 150 countries in more than 100 languages and across all platforms. It is a centre of expertise and an important part of the BBC’s newsgathering operation with journalists based in the UK and international bureaux. Our extensive operation enables us to provide insightful and reliable coverage of political, economic, security and media news. Our round‑the‑clock reporting of TV, radio, press, news agencies, digital and social media is also provided to commercial clients, partners, and the UK Government.
Key Responsibilities and Skills
As part of this role, you will engage with a collaborative agile team, alongside Team Leads, Business Analysts, Business support teams, Architects and other Engineers to deliver quality solutions. You will be working in a hybrid environment, with the BBC team based in London.
In the First 3 Months
- Learning the BBC Monitoring technical and business domain.
- Getting up to speed with our legacy and new systems.
- Working with the business support teams and business analysts to define test scope and write acceptance criteria and functional tests.
- Writing automation code and running manual tests to support product releases.
- Taking ownership of bug triage and defect management.
At 3-6 Months (and Beyond)
- Taking technical ownership of the test environments and planning deployments to the test environments.
- Supporting the agile team practices and shaping the test approach for BBC Monitoring.
- Learning new technologies and keeping abreast of existing technologies.
Beyond these responsibilities
You will also have time to focus on self‑development through Innovation Time (10%) and extensive training opportunities via the BBC Academy.
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Ability to create meaningful descriptive test cases / scenarios from business requirements using BDD / TDD methodologies.
- Good working knowledge of RESTful APIs and programming experience, ideally with an OOP based language.
- Good working experience of front‑end automation tools (Preferably Playwright or Cypress).
- Good experience working with remote testing labs (SauceLabs / Browserstack).
- Good working experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
Desired (but not required)
- Good working knowledge of RESTful APIs.
- Experience working with performance testing tools (gatling, jmeter, etc).
- Experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Experience working with large complex data sets.
Additional Information
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
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