Tester - Mobile Apps Tester - Mobile Apps

We're looking for a talented Tester to join our mobile team in Salford. Our mobile app teams work collaboratively and cross-discipline to add or refine functionality on the BBC iOS and Android mobile apps including BBC News, BBC Sport, BBC Weather, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Our mobile apps are used by an ever-increasing audience who rely on the BBC to inform, educate and entertain them. We need people who are passionate about quality and developing creative technical solutions. As a Tester you will work within your teams to make sure we do the right testing at the right time. BBC Mobile Applications Software Engineering is an integral part of delivering our technical strategy, for a Digital-first BBC, which creates distinctive, world-class content and services.,

• Contribute to the development of features, prevention of bugs and the development lifecycle, from conception and discovery through to delivery and monitoring.
• Write and execute functional and exploratory tests to assess product performance.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of automation frameworks. Advocate their use to ensure high value is achieved from Test automation relative to the investment made.
• Provide early testing input and discuss tests scenarios with the team to ensure that each feature is clearly understood before implementation, validated early and throughout implementation, and verified when implementation is complete.
• Help identify the root cause of defects using debugging tools and provide feedback to stakeholders.
• Ensure the software delivered is of high quality, fit-for-purpose, meets the requirements and is within the planned timescales.
• Support, implement and help shape the test approach.
• Work closely with all disciplines and stakeholders to support our integrations.
• Champion quality and the continual improvement of approaches and processes, ensuring they adhere to the overall Test Strategy.
• Learn different technologies and acclimatise to them rapidly.
• Learn from and contribute to the test community.
  
  Experienced testing skills, preferably on iOS and Android mobile applications.
• Learning new technologies and ways of working within a multi-discipline team.
• Ability to anticipate and investigate problems and tackle them pragmatically.
• Ability to create, adapt, improve and execute effective test approaches and practices.
• Experience with native mobile automation technologies and programming languages. Our teams use native test frameworks (Espresso, XCUI) written in Kotlin & Swift.
• Experience working in teams with Agile/Scrum/Kanban project management.
• Experience of test and issue management tools (e.g. TestRail, Jira, Quality Centre, QASE).
• Understanding of continuous integration and build systems.
  
  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 of 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'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 Here.