Test Automation Engineer

Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Uxbridge, UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

HTML Test Suite Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Automation of Tests Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Code Review Continuous Integration Data Structures Software Design Patterns Web Development Design of User Interfaces
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Python (Programming Language) Software Engineering Data Streaming TypeScript Web Application Frameworks WebSocket Performance Testing Real Time Systems Software Troubleshooting Backend Playwright Integration Frameworks React Redux Video Streaming Restful APIs Jenkins Programming Languages

Job description

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.

Requirements

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

Benefits & conditions

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

About the company

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., 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., 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., Motorola Solutions UK Limited

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