Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close‑knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.
Department Overview
Our Pronto Deployment team provides mission critical software to UK emergency service agencies, with our primary focus being the Pronto Digital Policing app. Pronto is the most popular mobile policing application in the UK, trusted by over half of the UK’s 45 police forces and used by around 75,000 police officers on a daily basis. It has been designed with and for frontline operational users, resulting in an intuitive solution with positive adoption, excellent user compliance and consistently positive feedback. Based in the West End of Glasgow, we currently have around 100 employees.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Test Automation Lead to take ownership of our automated testing strategy. Candidates should have experience leading a team of automation engineers and be capable of developing automated test solutions for the Pronto platform while guiding fellow testers to roll these solutions out across the department. You will be responsible for converting our manual test cases into reliable automated scripts, primarily focusing on regression testing, to ensure product stability with every release. Beyond standard QA, you will also identify viable processes—searching for opportunities to automate repetitive workflows and data‑setup tasks to increase overall engineering efficiency. You will work closely with the test manager, test engineers and developers to integrate automation into our everyday processes and ensure high‑quality delivery. This role offers flexible, hybrid working with an expectancy to attend the Glasgow office several times per month, where applicable.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
* Develop, maintain and scale a robust test automation framework using tools like Cypress or Playwright for the Pronto Platform and roll it out across the department.
* Oversee the automation of the regression testing suite, ensuring that critical paths are covered and that new features do not break existing functionality.
* Work with manual testers to identify processes outside of standard testing (such as test data generation, environment setup or reporting) that are viable for automation and implement solutions, thereby reducing manual testing required by Pronto delivery teams while still ensuring high coverage.
* Analyse test results, identify defects, document them clearly in DevOps/GitHub and work with developers to verify fixes.
* Participate in sprint planning and daily stand‑ups to provide testing estimates and flag potential quality risks early in the development cycle.
* Identify any new tools and technologies that may improve quality.
Academic & Technical Requirements
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
* A formal qualification (Degree) in Computing Science or equivalent experience.
* 2+ years of experience in QA Automation Software Development in Test (SDET) qualification preferable.
* Experience converting manual test cases into automated scripts.
* Experience with Java or another object‑oriented language.
* Knowledge of software development/issue tracking systems (e.g. Jira, MSDevOps).
* Experience with XML and XSLT.
* Experience with web service technologies (e.g. SOAP, REST, JSON).
* Solid understanding of SQL and database queries for test data verification.
* Knowledge of source code management technologies (e.g. SVN, Git).
* Experience with smartphone testing (primarily Android).
* Experience with SQL.
Soft Skills
* Have an analytical mindset, where you look at a manual process and immediately start thinking about how to script it.
* Have the ability to explain technical bugs to non‑technical stakeholders clearly.
* Take pride in the quality of the release and are not afraid to block a deployment release if quality standards aren't met.
* Be confident to speak up when projects are producing sub‑standard output.
* Communicate with the core software development team to understand solution behaviour.
* Communicate with Pronto delivery teams to understand quality issues and improve where required.
* Have a critical eye for detail that challenges the status‑quo.
* Deliver critical feedback without damaging relationships.
Why Join Us?
* Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
* Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
* 25 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays.
* Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
* Employee stock purchase plan.
* Flexible working options.
* Private medical care.
* Life assurance.
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
* Career development support and wide‑ranging learning opportunities.
* Employee health and wellbeing support (EAP, wellbeing guidance, etc.).
* Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
* Corporate social responsibility initiatives, including support for volunteering.
* Well‑known companies discount scheme.
Travel Requirements
None
Relocation
None
Position Type
Experienced
Referral Payment Plan
Yes
Company
Motorola Solutions UK Limited
EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally‑protected characteristic. We are proud of our people‑first and community‑focused culture, empowering every employee to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world.
Additional Note
If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.
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