Software Engineering Associate

Hiring Manager: Stephen Rogers
Recruiter: Archana SM
Location: Bangalore
Why BT
Weve always been an organisation with a purpose; to use the power of communication to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the worlds firs telecommunications company. At our heart were a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.
Today in this fast-changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulations and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So, if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward well offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If thats you and what youre looking for, wed love you to be part of our future.
Why this job matters
We are looking for people who enjoy exploring new technologies, developing new skills, using industry leading development techniques and have an inquisitive nature in interpreting data presented to them. We need you if you like a wide variety of work, enjoy a challenge and are passionate about high quality software engineering in the TV space. We use our automation tools, expertise and analysis skills to ensure excellent experiences for our TV customers come and join us to see your skills make a real difference to the people you see every day.
What Youll Be Doing Your Accountabilities
Youll be a software engineer in a squad that develops, maintains and executes automated test scripts. In the squad, you will contribute to the full agile lifecycle, putting product features through their paces to validate for our customers. With support from the team, youll write code for tests, configure our test automation tools, analyse results, prepare and share our result data to the decision making process for releases and review in-life data for our customer base.

• Develops and maintains test automation scripts within a squad
• Adheres to engineering best practices
• Applies agile principles to the way features are tested and validated
• Engages in agile lifecycle ceremonies
• Analyses and resolves issues
• Innovates with the available test tools and seeks to improve the level of automation
• Analyses results from automated tests and can interpret results into meaningful reports for stakeholders
• Analyses data from in-life devices to observe patterns of issues that could be observed and caught with automated tests
  

The skills youll need to succeed
Test automation technologies
Awareness of TDD, test scripting, standard or bespoke hardware and/or software test automation tools, and agile test methodologies
Excellent communication skills
Ability to explain technical issues and concepts to other member of the team and to Product stakeholders
Creating maintainable code
Knowledge of good software theory, and capability to apply that with your skills to create code thats easy to modify, easy to test and works correctly clean code
Testing concepts
Awareness of automated testing concepts such as TDD, BDD and CI
Team player
Ability to understand the bigger picture and prioritise the most customer impacting issues, working as a team player who constantly shares knowledge
Improvement focus
Have a proven ability to learn new technologies and put these into practice
Challenging nature
Will question and challenge, based on data both to deepen understanding of how third-party software is operating, and to champion good customer experience for our customers
Experience youd be expected to have
Mandatory

• Have a proven ability to learn new technologies and put these into practice
  

Preferred

• Hands on experience of test tools and techniques for automated testing
• Experience in Python scripting
• Experience of working with Unix / Linux
• Experience with network solutions
  

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About Us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. Its fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, youll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you wont be alone: well be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if youre a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
DONT MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. Were committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every requirement on the , please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.