Test Engineer (Sales Ops)

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Job description

We are Global

We're proud to be one of the world's leading media and entertainment groups. Whether it be on-air, via global player or through our outdoor advertising, we entertain and reach over 50 million individuals across the UK every week.

Across our entire business, we're committed to making more moments that matter for our audiences, customers and for each other. And every moment matters…the small, the big and everything in between. We couldn't do any of it without our talented, passionate Globallers. Everything we do is driven by our culture and the talented people who make it happen.

Here at Global, we have a saying…it's all about how you make people feel. It's our company ethos, our guiding belief and it's so much more than words. It's the vibe you get when you walk into one of our offices, it's what keeps us honest and true to who we are, and above all, it's the reason we all love to work here.

Test Engineer (Sales Ops)

Reporting to

This role reports to Lead Test Engineer

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 focused on 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 crucial 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 a great listening experience for millions of people every day.
• Working in a collaborative, agile environment to develop innovative solutions.
• Work closely with engineers and the product team 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 deliverables of the teams you work with.
• Understood the systems and integrations that the team work with.
• Helped to ensure a high quality delivery of functionality with the teams including writing automated tests, manual testing and API testing.

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.
• Fostering a culture of collaboration, 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:

• Demonstrable experience at testing including manual and automated testing; API, integration and end to end testing; performance and security testing.
• An operational mentality, demonstrable experience in relevant tooling and in debugging complex issues across a system.
• Experience with SQL and a language - Typescript, Javascript, Java or C#
• Strong problem solving skills and a pragmatic approach.
• Experience of working in a fast moving, agile environment.
• Demonstrably great communication skills, both written and verbal and 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