Software Test Engineer

Motorola Solutions · Glasgow

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. In our continuous effort toward "Solving for safer", Pronto has become 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. Pronto was designed with and for front-line operational users, delivering an intuitive solution with high adoption, strong compliance, and positive feedback.

Based in the West End of Glasgow, our team started as Kelvin Connect in 2002 as a University of Glasgow spin-out and has grown to around 100 employees. Now as part of Motorola Solutions, we continue to expand and create new opportunities across the UK and beyond.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced, detail-oriented, and proactive Test Engineer local to Glasgow (or within a reasonable traveling distance) to join our mission-focused team. In this role, you will play a critical part in helping to ensure product stability across every release, taking genuine pride in release quality, and serving as a key quality advocate who is not afraid to speak up if quality standards are not met.

At Motorola Solutions, everything starts with our people. We foster a people-first, inclusive environment where you are empowered to bring your authentic self, pursue your potential, and do work that genuinely matters. You will collaborate closely with technical project managers, front-line stakeholders, core software developers, and deployment teams to refine requirements, analyse quality trends, and advocate for testing best practices. If you bring an analytical mindset that naturally looks at a manual process and thinks about how to script it, you will find ample opportunity here to help roll out and maintain automated test solutions while contributing to software used on the front lines every day.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Assurance & Test Execution

Test mobile software solutions and applications to help ensure products meet requirements and are free of defects
Write, maintain, and execute comprehensive test cases for regular software releases
Read and evaluate requirements documentation from Technical Project Managers, customers, or team members to clarify scope and provide accurate testing estimates

Automation & Quality Standards Advocacy

Advocate for testing best practices across Pronto delivery teams and assist in rolling out automated test solutions
Maintain automated test suites and identify new testing tools, technologies, and ideas to continuously improve software quality
Take personal pride in release quality and actively challenge project outputs or block deployments if established quality standards are not met

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Field Verification

Analyse quality metrics and defect trends to implement proactive solutions that improve overall product delivery
Communicate complex technical bugs clearly to non-technical stakeholders and partner with core development teams to understand system behavior
Attend customer premises periodically to witness on-site software usage in real-world operational environments

Basic Requirements

Formal qualification (Degree) in Computing Science
Commercial software testing experience
3 years UK residency required for security check clearance

Job Requirements

Technical Expertise

Commercial Testing Expertise to perform systematic test execution, test case creation, and quality tracking across mission-critical software solutions
Analytical Mindset to review manual processes and evaluate how to script, streamline, or automate workflows
Requirements Refinement to evaluate technical documentation, provide accurate time estimates, and collaborate with technical teams
Technical Communication to explain technical bugs clearly to non-technical stakeholders and liaise with core software development teams

Professional Experience

Quality Advocacy to maintain strict quality standards during release cycles, provide constructive feedback without damaging relationships, and advocate for quality standards
Field Verification to attend customer sites periodically and witness live operational software usage
Workload Prioritisation to assess competing tasks continuously and prioritize critical testing activities effectively

Preferred Qualifications (Optional)

Interest in learning or experience with automated test frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Appium, Cypress)
Knowledge of Agile methodologies
ISTQB certification
Experience with Java or another Object-Oriented programming language
Knowledge of source code management technologies (e.g., Git, SubVersion)
Knowledge of software development and issue tracking systems (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub)
Experience with Android smartphone testing
Experience with XML and XSLT

Why Join Us?

Competitive salary and bonus schemes
Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus)
25 days holiday entitlement + 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
Team bonding days

Join us at Motorola Solutions in Glasgow to build mission-critical technologies for front-line responders and help us in 'Solving for safer' every day.

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Travel Requirements

None

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.

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