Senior Tester - London W FA

Job summary

Join BBC Studios to help shape high-quality digital products used across global platforms. As a Senior Tester – Automation Specialist, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the quality of our CMS, front-end, and API products, using automation to support scalable, reliable delivery at speed.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute the product or stream's test strategy, ensuring robust coverage across frontend, CMS, and API layers.
• Own automation design, implementation, and maintenance using Playwright (or similar) with Cucumber, integrating into CI/CD pipelines.
• Plan, estimate, and report on testing activities using data to assess quality, manage risk, and guide release readiness.
• Collaborate across teams to coordinate cross-product testing, improve processes, and embed shift-left practices.
• Mentor testers, share best practices, and contribute to the wider quality community to drive consistency and learning.

Qualifications

• Strong manual and automation testing background in agile environments, with expertise in Playwright with TypeScript and Cucumber or similar tools.
• Proven experience testing CMS platforms, RESTful APIs, and ensuring usability, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Skilled in designing and maintaining automation frameworks, working with CI/CD, and interpreting metrics for improvement.
• Effective communicator and collaborator, able to work independently, manage defects, and support planning/reporting.
• Experienced in mentoring testers, using test management tools (e.g., Jira, TestRail, Xray), and promoting QA best practices.

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