Test Automation Engineer

motorolasolutions; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonus schemes

Two weeks of additional pay per year (

25 days holiday entitlement

Private medical insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Flexible working options

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Career development support

Wellbeing support

Carbon neutral initiatives

CSR volunteering days

Job summary

Motorola Solutions UK Limited in Edinburgh is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to join the Avigilon Alta Video team. You will contribute to mission-critical QA for real-time video security platforms, with a blend of UI, API and mobile testing in a hybrid work model.

The role emphasizes TypeScript/Playwright, API automation and collaboration with senior engineers to raise quality benchmarks, with opportunities to learn and grow within a global, people-first culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in automating UI, API, and backend tests.
• Proficiency with TypeScript/Playwright is a bonus.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with cross-platform mobile testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests for UI, API, and backend.
• Create automated tests for iOS and Android apps using emulators or real devices.
• Integrate mobile tests with CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to reliability and performance of real-time systems.

Skills

Automation testing

TypeScript

Playwright

Mobile testing

CI/CD

APIs testing

Debugging

Team player

Tools

Appium

XCUITest

Espresso

Playwright

Jenkins

Job description

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

Motorola Solutions’ innovations, products, and services play essential roles in people’s lives. Our end-to-end suite of software solutions helps our customers answer thousands of emergency calls and text messages, and process video, disparate evidence, and records. We are also proud to be an industry leader in video security solutions installed in more than 120 countries at thousands of customer sites. Our products leverage cutting-edge voice technology, video analytics, and Machine Learning to enable our customers to focus on what matters while providing faster responses, safer outcomes, and greater transparency.

Job Description

The Avigilon Alta Video team is responsible for the mission-critical infrastructure that powers our VMS. We are currently evolving our platform to support deep-tier interconnection across the Motorola product portfolio. Our team values high-performance engineering, architectural integrity, and a commitment to building the most reliable real-time tools in the industry.

We have a fantastic city center office in the heart of Edinburgh and fully embrace a hybrid home/office working model, with an aim for 2 days in the office.

We are looking for a skilled Test Automation Engineer to join our team in Edinburgh. The ideal candidate combines strong automation expertise with excellent API & browser automation skills, a solid foundation in coding, and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.

While experience with our specific tech stack is not required, having proficiency in Typescript /Playwright is a significant bonus. Above all, we value enthusiasm, adaptability, and a willingness to learn. Some responsibilities include:

• Mission-Critical Quality Assurance: Directly contribute to public safety and
• Support Quality Benchmarks: Work with senior engineers to support continuous quality benchmarks for real-time systems and new AI features.
• Develop and Maintain Test Suites: Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests within existing frameworks (e.g., TypeScript/Playwright) across UI, API, and backend systems.
• Specialized Mobile Automation: Responsible for developing and executing automated test scripts for iOS and Android applications to ensure seamless mobile user experiences. Integrates mobile tests with emulators, simulators, and real-device clouds into the team’s delivery pipeline.

Basic Requirements

You’re not expected to have all the following skills, but they will be useful in performing your job. We are looking for someone who can:

• A collaborative team player who aligns with our core values and company culture.
• Develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts within established frameworks.
• Actively contribute to continuous integration and delivery pipelines to ensure frequent, high-quality releases.
• Demonstrated proficiency in a modern programming language and the ability to apply core engineering principles.
• Proven expertise in iOS/android mobile testing, proficiency with cross-platform mobile tools (e.g., Appium) or native frameworks (XCUITest, Espresso), using languages like Python, JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience with testing and automating workflows across different layers of a system, including user interfaces (UI) and APIs.
• Solid troubleshooting and debugging skills to identify and resolve test failures and system issues.
• Familiarity with CI/CD principles and practical experience contributing to or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with TypeScript /Playwright.
• Familiar with methodologies and tools for soak or performance testing.
• Practical experience with Jenkins or similar scheduling and integration tools.
• Exposure to video platforms, streaming technologies, or media solutions.
• Experience in Hardware automation.
• Logic & State: Understanding of application state patterns, data flows (e.g., Pinia, Vuex, or Redux) and reactivity/observables.
• API & Infrastructure: hands-on experience with RESTful API, websockets.. Solid understanding of web development principles.
• Engineering Mindset: a good foundation in data structures/algorithms and design patterns. Ability to see the long-term implications of solutions.
• Collaboration: Demonstrated team player skills and a willingness to work with others.
• Resilient Systems: excited about building, operating, and maintaining resilient, scalable systems. Tests their code.
• Analysis: ability to investigate and get to the root cause of issues and find a solution.
• Flexibility: happy exploring new areas of the codebase and jumping into new features (with help, of course). Can prioritise effectively.
• Willingness to learn: we’re always looking to improve our codebase, whether via patterns or libraries and we review code.
• Remote Culture: the team is distributed across geographies, and you’re happy working remotely part of the week.

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes
• Two weeks of additional pay per year (holiday bonus)
• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays
• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Flexible working options
• 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 days
• Well-known companies discount scheme

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Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

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 Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. 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.