Tester - Content Metadata

Job Introduction

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.

Two stage interview process

• Competency based – Technical & values-based questions
• Practical exercise with questions

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• 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.

Are you the right candidate?

Some of the things we love:

• 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.

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