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Job Requisition ID: 48048
Job Closing Date: 18 August 2026
London, GBR, W12 7FA

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JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: 12 Month Fixed-term Contract, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios StoryWorks
LOCATION: London – Television Centre
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £36,200 plus £5,441 London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.

Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As a QA Digital Tester, you'll play a key role in delivering reliable, accessible and high-quality digital products. Combining hands-on testing with automation engineering, you'll design and maintain automated test solutions, provide clear insight into product quality, and help embed quality throughout the development lifecycle. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you'll ensure products are released with confidence and continue to meet the needs of users and audiences.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You'll be part of a collaborative team where quality is everyone's responsibility and continuous improvement is actively encouraged. This role offers the opportunity to influence engineering practices, shape automation strategy and champion accessibility and user experience. Working alongside talented product, design and engineering colleagues, you'll tackle meaningful challenges, share expertise and play a visible role in delivering outstanding digital experiences.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
Design, build and maintain automated end-to-end, integration and regression tests using TypeScript and modern automation frameworks.
Deliver functional, exploratory, accessibility, usability and cross-browser testing to ensure products meet quality standards.
Embed automated testing within CI/CD pipelines, providing fast, reliable feedback to support development and release decisions.
Collaborate with product managers, developers and designers to identify risks early and define effective testing approaches.
Continuously improve automation frameworks, test coverage, reporting and quality practices while supporting colleagues through knowledge sharing and mentoring.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
Experience designing, developing and maintaining automated tests for web applications.
Strong knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript and experience with Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIOor similar automation tools.
Experience integrating automated tests into source control and CI/CD workflows.
Strong understanding of functional, exploratory, regression, integration and end-to-end testing techniques.
Knowledge of API testing, accessibility standards, defect investigation and working within agile delivery teams.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
Experience with visual regression, performance, security or mobile web testing.
Experience validating analytics, tracking implementations or system integrations.
Experience testing content management systems, editorial platforms or high-traffic digital products.
Knowledge of Node.js tooling and TypeScript quality tools such as ESLint and Prettier.
ISTQB, Certified Agile Tester or a related technical qualification.

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.

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest, we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

#BBCSTUDIOS

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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.

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.