Test Lead, Programmes and On Demand - Publishing Services

THIS JOB HAS NOW EXPIRED.

As an experienced Test Lead with extensive knowledge of Ruby, JavaScript, Java as well as extensive knowledge of HTTP, you will be in your element in our Publishing Services team

The Publishing Services team sits within the Programmes & On Demand (POD) department, part of the wider Future Media (FM) division, and develops and supports metadata ingest and transformation applications for BBC Programmes metadata, and a family of HTTP metadata APIs that power iPlayer and other BBC websites as well as B2B services to Virgin, Sky, BT and many others.

POD is responsible for BBC iPlayer and the BBC’s Radio & Music proposition on PC, mobile and TV. The team also builds services used across the BBC including social and media playback, plus the Red Button and other TV and mobile platform activities.

You will have the opportunity to help shape the quality excellence of these products. This is an opportunity to help shape a team whose delivery will have a major influence in the industry sector.

You will manage a team of approximately 3 - 5 experienced testers, and as well as evolving current QA standards, will play a lead role in the introduction of Continuous Delivery and a more agile, decoupled development, test, release model between Publishing Services and the client systems.

You will have experience of Ruby, JavaScript and Java (Mastery) as well as extensive knowledge of HTTP (Mastery). You'll need an understanding of semantic web (Competence) and of performance and other non-functional testing (mastery). In addition you'll have a sound understanding of data formats used in web programming (XML variants, JSON variants, RDF etc.) (Competence). Extensive knowledge of Agile development practices including TDD and BDD (Mastery) is also essential.

In addition, you will need to demonstrate the following technical skills and knowledge:

• Ability to work with stakeholders, perform business analysis and produce Acceptance Criteria (Mastery)
• Ability to write excellent quality code. Understanding of patterns, composition over inheritance, refactoring. (Mastery)
• Good understanding of version control systems. Experience in using SVN. (Leadership)
• Skilled use of de-bugging tools, ability to analyse stack traces, code, log-files and other artefacts (Competence)
• Good understanding of CI and experience of using a CI system, ideally Hudson /Jenkins(Competence)
• Ability to pair with developers with a range of ability and knowledge (Mastery)
• Good understanding of Service Oriented Architectures (Leadership)

 For more information and the full job description, please visit our careers site.

To apply, please click on the Apply button to be redirected to the BBC website.

Closing date: 12 August 2012.