The BBC is currently looking for a Developer with extensive experience in TDD and BDD processes to join the News & Knowledge team.
As the newest role in our software delivery job family, this Developer will be expected to perform a developer role, with a focus on testability. They collaborate with developers and other stakeholders to define and achieve successful delivery of high quality software for our major online products.
News and Knowledge (N&K) is the department within BBC Future Media responsible for BBC Online products such as: News, Sport, Weather & Homepage. We manage and develop products on websites, mobile devices and interactive TV, have a world-leading approach to content management and metadata, and are delivering the London 2012 Olympics across BBC Online.
In this position we're looking for someone with a balanced skill set between Development and Testing. As such, we'd like to see as much of the following as possible on your CV:
• Extensive experience of writing in Ruby, Java or other OO Dev languages
• Significant understanding of Agile development practices including TDD & BDD and their application
• Understanding of databases and services (e.g.RESTful services), including the ability to programmatically interact with data formats that may include XML and JSON
• Experience using test automation frameworks and tools, such as Cucumber, Capybara, Selenium, Watir,
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, HTTP as well as major browsers and browser development tools
• Working knowledge of version control systems to ensure version control of test/development artefacts (e.g. SVN, Perforce, baazar), with some experience of distributed version control (i.e. git) desirable
This is a great opportunity to part of team that is responsible for one of the most viewed websites in the world. If this type of profile sounds of interest, then please do follow this link to apply.
