Test Engineer Full Time

Global

Job Description

Test Engineer

Reporting of the role

This role reports to Head of Testing

Overview of job

The Commercial Technology team develop and maintain the products that drive the commercial revenues at Global for both the Radio and Outdoor parts of the business. We are passionate about 3 key areas of the business:

• Sales Operations (opportunity management and campaign details);
• Trading and Fulfilment (campaign planning, booking and delivery); and
• Programmatic (audio and outdoor digital ad platform).

We are facing many exciting and interesting scaling questions, technical challenges and looking at new ways to grow the business. This role will be important to that success!

We are a friendly and close-knit team and work in a highly collaborative, agile environment.

3 best things about the job

• Work across all our revenue generating systems including campaign planning, optimisation and fulfilment for radio and outdoor; and our streaming and dynamic ad insertion platform that provides an outstanding listening experience for millions of people every day!
• Work in a highly collaborative, agile environment to develop innovative solutions and will gain exposure to various automated tools.
• Work closely with engineers and the product teams to deliver high quality work that impacts the business.

Measures of success –
In the first few months, you would have:

• Gained an understanding of the business context and how it affects all of the results of the teams you work with.
• Understood the systems and integrations for the teams you work with.
• Helped to ensure high quality delivery of functionality with the teams you work with including writing automated tests, manual testing and API testing.
• Once manually tested requirements you will be working with other colleagues to automate these requirements in a paired programming approach

Responsibilities of the role

• Hands on testing of delivery roadmap through a variety of techniques (including manual, automated, API, integration, performance testing) to ensure high quality output.
• Working with the product and engineering teams to make sure requirements are well documented and unambiguous and ensuring acceptance criteria are understood.
• Working with the product and engineering teams to triage and prioritise defects that are raised.
• Encouraging a culture of teamwork, learning and mentoring and ensuring a friendly work environment.

What you will need

The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:

• Proven experience at testing including manual testing, automated testing, API or integration and end to end testing
• Experience in writing code in either Java or Javascript.
• An operational approach, proven experience in relevant tooling and in debugging complex issues across a system.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic approach.
• Experience working in a fast paced, agile environment.
• Demonstrably great communication skills, both written and verbal, the ability to influence and drive discussion and collaboration.

Everyone is welcome at Global

Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that different will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.

Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Global