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The Content Metadata team, which sits within the BBC's Content Publishing group, is responsible for designing, building, and supporting the services that create and control the descriptive metadata associated with all types of content (e.g. BBC Sounds audio, iPlayer video, News/Sport/World Service articles). Effective use of metadata allows the BBC to provide a rich, engaging and above all relevant experience to millions of audience members every day. We're a cross-functional team and work with a varied technology stack that includes Postgres and Mongo databases; Graph databases; Kafka event streams; Scala, Go, and Node.js services and lambdas; and JS/React UIs, mostly built in AWS. Your role will be to ensure we are delivering high quality software across our entire technology stack.

We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its software as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career.

The BBC's digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in the future of products used by millions.,

• Writing and executing functional tests and carrying out exploratory testing to assess product performance.


• Support, implement and help shape the test approach.


• Planning, estimating and reporting test activities.


• Contributing to test process and procedural improvements.


• Raising descriptive, concise and useful defect reports.


• Leading defect triage meetings with other disciplines.


• Troubleshooting- finding critical bugs or verifying reported issues, identifying their underlying cause and seeing them through to resolution liaising with other teams where appropriate.


• Collaborating and supporting the wider test teams.


• Monitoring alarms & dashboards.


• Mentoring junior team members.


• Working with other test roles and development teams to ensure the spread of good practices and sharing of knowledge.


• Provide support in tool evaluations and selections.


• Communicating status information and issues to a variety of stakeholders, adapting appropriately depending on the audience.


• Working with product teams and stakeholders to ensure that each feature is clearly understood before implementation, validated early and throughout implementation, and verified when implementation is complete.


• Learn from and contribute to the test community., Scope Finance: No financial responsibility. Line Management: No line management responsibility. Ad-hoc Teams:Participates in departmental hack days and external ad-hoc events (typically 5 to 20 members).
  
  Experience of and ability to design and execute effective tests.


• Evidence planning, executing functional, systems and regression test.


• Experience applying an analytical and detail-orientated approach to problem solving and solution design.


• Experience of non-functional testing.


• Experience implementing continuous improvement.


• An aptitude for learning new technologies and ways of working.


• Ability to input and support in creation, adaptation and execution of effective test strategies.


• Ability to think creatively, problem solve and innovate.


• Good written and spoken communications skills.


• Work closely and communicate clearly within cross-functional teams.


• Ability to experiment, analyse and continually improve test practices.


• Good understanding of test automation and its value within agile delivery.


• Github knowledge.


• Good written and spoken communication skills.


• Working knowledge of product/defect/test case management systems.


• An appreciation of good user-experience and able to be the users/audience advocate.


• Good understanding of usability and accessibility of applications and products.
  
  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 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.