Software Test Engineer

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.

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

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

Ex perience 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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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.