Senior Tester

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: 12 month Fixed-term Contract / Attachment
DEPARTMENT: World Service Discovery 
LOCATION: London / Salford / Glasgow – Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £47,000 - £57,000 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

Join the BBC World Service as a Senior Tester, helping deliver trusted, impartial news to 1.5 billion people worldwide. You will lead testing across complex, scalable platforms, shaping how quality is embedded from design through to delivery. This is a high impact role where you will influence engineering practices and ensure audiences can access reliable content across languages, devices and environments.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The World Service delivers journalism in 41 languages to audiences across the globe, ensuring access regardless of geography or connectivity. You will join a team where quality is central to everything we do, working on complex, meaningful products that make a real difference. With a strong focus on learning, collaboration and innovation, you will have the space to grow, contribute and shape how we build better software.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Lead and evolve the testing strategy for a defined product area, embedding quality across the full software lifecycle
• Review and assess new features, define test plans and collaborate with engineers to ensure performance and reliability
• Design, build and maintain automated test suites to support delivery at scale
• Act as a quality advocate, influencing best practice and driving early defect prevention
• Coach and mentor others, contributing to a strong learning culture within the team

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Experience in manual and automated testing, from unit tests to integration and browser tests as well as performing hands-on, exploratory and regression testing.
• Experience in running accessibility testing in line with WCAG and BBC guidelines.
• Experience working closely with a multi-discipline agile team, including Product Managers, UX Designers, and Software Engineering Team Leads.
• Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript and ReactJS.
• Experience with writing test approaches, raising and triaging issues in JIRA and issuing weekly and final test summary reports to key Stakeholders

DESIRABLE

• GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Grafana
• AWS and AWS tools
• Cypress 
• Playwright
  

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.

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.