Test Team Lead - London, United Kingdom - BBC

Description

Package description

Job Reference: 14368
Band: D
Salary range: £ £70000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London Broadcasting House / Hybrid up to 2 days in office

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%

• 26 days' annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days

• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes

• Employee assistance and well-being programmes

• Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring

• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, National Disability Networks and many more.

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on k with the job reference in the subject.

Job introduction

BBC News, Sport and Weather mobile apps are used and trusted by over 12 million people and we're looking for a Test Team Lead who is passionate about testing, as well as developing people. As a Test Team Lead you will lead the testers embedded in the engineering teams to deliver a world class mobile experience.
An intuitive and engaging product experience is integral to the audience's enjoyment of the rich content that we offer and the sense of value that they get from the BBC.

The ideal candidate would be someone who excels in people management and engagement, values communication, and collaborative approaches in finding the right solution, is willing and excited to learn new skills, and to share their knowledge with others. You will have a real opportunity to influence the future of mobile at the BBC.

Reporting to the Test Manager and working with others in the Test Leadership group, you will be responsible for recruiting, managing, leading, setting direction and co-ordinating test across a group of product test teams or a programme of work. You will also be responsible for managing, coaching, and mentoring direct line reports by supporting and helping them to develop their strengths and invest in their talents.

We are self-organising and highly collaborative teams of engineers, testers, UX designers, technical architects, and product owners. We value our people, offer regular training and development opportunities, as well as '10% time' - allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation. We take the time to reflect and improve on how we're working via team retrospectives and mentoring. We're hard-working, supportive, care about each other, and promote a healthy work-life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours, in a friendly and inclusive working environment.

Interview process

One stage interview process combining a 10 minute presentation followed by interview questions.

Main responsibilities

• Accountable for the design and implementation of test approaches across a group of product test teams or programmes of work.

• Recruit, lead, mentor, coach, develop and manage 6+ test engineers embedded in multidiscipline teams.

• Provide test expertise and support to stakeholders at all levels in communicating strategy, product fit and effectiveness.

• Own testing across complex, multi-team, distributed technology programmes.

• Advocate and implement agile and lean development and testing principles, encourage continuous improvement, and ensure efficiency of the test process and practices.

• Ensure troubleshooting and resolution of issues throughout the product life cycle is carried out.

• Implementing test management and reporting frameworks across multiple teams.

• Define risk-based test scopes, from a combination of product knowledge, user reach analytics and technical variation between devices/platforms.

• Ensure automated tests and tools are used appropriately and are effective.

• Work with other test leaders in the broader organisation to share best practice and standards.

• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies and help introduce them where appropriate.

Are you the right candidate

The ideal candidate - You may have experience of some, but not necessarily all, of the following:

• Experience of leading software testing – designing and implementing test approaches for complex online products in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles.

• Experience in people management, including recruiting, leading, mentoring, coaching, and career development.

• Experience of innovating in testing technology and processes.

• Experience with native mobile automation technologies and programming languages. Our teams use native test frameworks (Espresso, XCUITest) written in Kotlin & Swift.

• Experience in testing mobile applications – iOS and Android.

• Leadership and collaboration inside and beyond the team. The ability to influence diverse and senior stakeholders effectively.

• Expertise in agile software development methodologies including behaviour and test-driven development.

• Expertise in problem solving and providing creative solutions.

• Good written and spoken communications skills; comfortable engaging at all levels in the organization.

About the BBC

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.