Test Automation Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were 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 thats 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

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 enterprise security by executing and assuring the quality of cutting-edge solutions.

• 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.

• Performance Test Support: Assist with the execution and initial analysis of performance load and stress tests on high-performance systems.

Basic Requirements

Youre 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.

• 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.

It is also considered a bonus if you are:

• 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.

• Experience with Mobile and Web automation is a significant plus.

• Experience: 2-5 years of software engineering experience with knowledge of HTML CSS TypeScript and ideally modern frontend frameworks.

• 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: were always looking to improve our codebase whether via patterns or libraries and we review code.

• Remote Culture: the team is distributed across geographies and youre happy working remotely part of the week.

In return for your expertise well support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also to reward your hard work youll 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

#LI-ZR1

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

Company

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 youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.