Test Team Lead

Job Closing Date: 18/06/2026

Salford, GBR, M50 2HQ

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: 12 months FTC / Attachment, Full time

DEPARTMENT: TV and Devices, BBC

LOCATION: Salford, MediaCityUK Hybrid minimum 2-3 days a week in the office

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £65,000 to £70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights

We are happy to discuss flexible working. If you would like to, please indicate your preference in the application. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the TV and Devices team to shape the quality behind BBC iPlayer and Sounds, helping deliver seamless, high quality experiences to UK audiences. As a Test Team Lead, you will drive Quality Engineering strategy, ensuring quality is built into products from discovery through to production, supporting the BBC’s ambition to be the leading digital destination for content.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You will be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary teams based in Salford, working on TV products that reach millions. All our teams values continuous improvement, innovation, and shared ownership of quality. You will benefit from strong support, regular development opportunities, dedicated time for learning and innovation, and an inclusive environment that promotes flexibility, wellbeing, and career growth.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Lead and evolve Quality Engineering strategy, embedding risk based, data informed approaches across teams from discovery through to production
• Plan capability and capacity, ensuring teams have the right skills, tools, and automation to deliver with confidence
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering quality through automation, CI CD integration, tooling, and observability
• Build strong relationships with engineering, product, and UX stakeholders, acting as a trusted partner for quality
• Develop and support quality engineers, fostering technical growth, knowledge sharing, and a strong learning culture
• Contribute to Test Leadership, shaping shared Quality Engineering principles and improving maturity across TV and Devices
• Identify and remove low value testing practices, focusing effort on reducing risk and increasing learning

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Strong experience leading software testing and quality activities using risk based approaches in complex environments
• Proven people management experience including hiring, coaching, mentoring, and supporting career development
• Experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks and integrating automated testing into CI CD pipelines
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, promoting shared ownership of quality across teams
• Deep understanding of agile delivery, including behaviour driven and test driven development, and how testing supports engineering flow

DESIRABLE

• Experience working with TV platforms such as Virgin Media, Sky, BT, or Freely
• Experience contributing to Quality Engineering communities of practice
• Experience using data, metrics, and telemetry to inform quality decisions and risk management
• Experience supporting teams through organisational or delivery change
• Experience integrating automation and quality checks within CI CD pipelines

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we would love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment 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.

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.

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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.

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.