Test Automation Engineer

Motorola Solutions; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two days in office per week

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Employee stock purchase plan

Flexible working options

Life assurance

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Motorola Solutions UK Limited is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks across UI, API, and backend systems in a hybrid Edinburgh office. You will drive adoption of new testing tools, write robust test code, and contribute to high-quality releases through CI/CD integration.

You should bring hands-on experience with TypeScript, Playwright, RESTful APIs, Docker, and GitHub Actions, plus an AI-first mindset to generate test data and

Qualifications

• Experience with modern programming languages and applying core engineering principles.
• Experience testing and automating workflows across UI and APIs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests across UI, API, and backend systems.
• Assess and drive adoption of new automated test frameworks.
• Write clean production-grade code and participate in code reviews for test framework and core app.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines to enable frequent, high-quality releases.

Skills

TypeScript

Playwright

CI/CD

RESTful APIs

Debugging

AI tooling

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

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

Our world-class Video Management Software allows Enterprise customers to monitor all aspects of security at their sites. From integrating video analytics in Windows applications to making highly scalable cloud microservices, our engineers have opportunities to work with a diverse and exciting range of products. We are seeking a Test Automation Engineer who shares an AI-First mindset to champion quality and reliability across our systems. You will leverage your expertise to design and build scalable automated test frameworks and seamlessly integrate them into modern CI/CD pipelines. We have a fantastic city-centre office in the heart of Edinburgh and fully embrace a hybrid home/office working model, aiming for 2 days in the office. A successful candidate will combine technical expertise with a collaborative mindset, partnering directly with engineering leadership to ensure applications are built with testability, observability, and high performance in mind from day one.

Job Description

What You Will Do

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests within existing frameworks (e.g., TypeScript/Playwright) across UI, API, and backend systems.
• Investigate, assess and drive adoption of new automated test frameworks within the organisation.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable production-grade code.
• Actively participate in code reviews for both the test framework and the core application, holding the team to high standards for coding practices.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to feature refinement and generate innovative solutions as well as advising team on test strategies and RCAs.
• Actively contribute to continuous integration and delivery pipelines to ensure frequent, high-quality releases.

What you should bring

• A collaborative team player who aligns with our core values and company culture.
• Demonstrated proficiency in a modern programming language and the ability to apply core engineering principles.
• 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.
• An AI-first mindset, with experience using AI coding tools to generate test data, conduct predictive failure analysis, identify edge cases, and drive spec-driven development to ensure consistent behaviour during AI-assisted refactoring.

Basic Requirements

• Familiarity with methodologies and tools for soak or performance testing.
• Practical experience with Github Actions or similar scheduling and integration tools.
• Exposure to video platforms, streaming technologies, or media solutions.
• 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.
• Ability to investigate and get to the root cause of issues and find a solution.
• Experience testing large-scale public-facing applications or distributed systems that are mission-critical for customers.
• Experience with test management tools such as TestRail.
• Familiarity with leveraging observability platforms to debug complex system failures.
• Experience developing test suites for applications in Cloud environments using virtualisation tools such as Docker.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes
• Two weeks 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
• 10% dedicated time for continuous learning and professional development (1 out of 10 working days).

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.

Culture & Values

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.

Additional Invitation

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.

Motorola Solutions 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.

Learn More

Learn more at www.motorolasolutions.com.