Why this job matters

We are looking for people who enjoy exploring new technologies, developing new skills, using industry leading development techniques and have an inquisitive nature in interpreting data presented to them. We need you if you like a wide variety of work, enjoy a challenge and are passionate about high quality software engineering in the TV space. We use our automation tools, expertise and analysis skills to ensure excellent experiences for our TV customers – come and join us to see your skills make a real difference to the people you see every day.

What you’ll be doing – your accountabilities

You’ll be a software engineer in a squad that develops, maintains and executes automated test scripts. In the squad, you will contribute to the full agile lifecycle, putting product features through their paces to validate for our customers. With support from the team, you’ll write code for tests, configure our test automation tools, analyse results, prepare and share our result data to the decision making process for releases and review in-life data for our customer base.

•    Develops and maintains test automation scripts within a squad
•    Adheres to engineering best practices
•    Applies agile principles to the way features are tested and validated
•    Engages in agile lifecycle ceremonies
•    Analyses and resolves issues
•    Innovates with the available test tools and seeks to improve the level of automation
•    Analyses results from automated tests and can interpret results into meaningful reports for stakeholders
•    Analyses data from in-life devices to observe patterns of issues that could be observed and caught with automated tests

The skills you’ll need to succeed

Test automation technologies
Awareness of TDD, test scripting, standard or bespoke hardware and/or software test automation tools, and agile test methodologies
Excellent communication skills
Ability to explain technical issues and concepts to other member of the team and to Product stakeholders
Creating maintainable code
Knowledge of good software theory, and capability to apply that with your skills to create code that’s easy to modify, easy to test and works correctly – ‘clean code’
Testing concepts
Awareness of automated testing concepts such as TDD, BDD and CI
Team player
Ability to understand the bigger picture and prioritise the most customer impacting issues, working as a team player who constantly shares knowledge
Improvement focus
Have a proven ability to learn new technologies and put these into practice
Challenging nature
Will question and challenge, based on data – both to deepen understanding of how third-party software is operating, and to champion good customer experience for our customers

Experience you’d be expected to have

Mandatory
•    Have a proven ability to learn new technologies and put these into practice
Preferred
•    Hands on experience of test tools and techniques for automated testing
•    Experience in Python scripting
•    Experience of working with Unix / Linux
•    Experience with network solutions