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Job Requisition ID: 46502
Job Closing Date: 21/06/2026
Glasgow, GBR, G511DA
| London, GBR, W1A 1AA
| Salford, GBR, M50 2QH
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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.
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Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment 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.
For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
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Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
