Test Automation Lead

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.

Our Pronto Deployment team provides mission critical software to UK emergency service agencies, with our primary focus being the Pronto Digital Policing app. Pronto is 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. It has been designed with and for frontline operational users, resulting in an intuitive solution with positive adoption, excellent user compliance and consistently positive feedback.

Based in the West End of Glasgow, we currently have around 100 employees.

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Test Automation Lead to take ownership of our automated testing strategy. Candidates should have experience leading a team of automation engineers and be capable of developing automated test solutions for the Pronto platform while guiding fellow testers to roll these solutions out across the department. You will be responsible for converting our manual test cases into reliable automated scripts, primarily focusing on regression testing, to ensure product stability with every release.

Beyond standard QA, you will also identify viable processes—searching for opportunities to automate repetitive workflows and data‑setup tasks to increase overall engineering efficiency. You will work closely with the test manager, test engineers and developers to integrate automation into our everyday processes and ensure high‑quality delivery. This role offers flexible, hybrid working with an expectancy to attend the Glasgow office several times per month, where applicable.

• Develop, maintain and scale a robust test automation framework using tools like Cypress or Playwright for the Pronto Platform and roll it out across the department.
• Oversee the automation of the regression testing suite, ensuring that critical paths are covered and that new features do not break existing functionality.
• Work with manual testers to identify processes outside of standard testing (such as test data generation, environment setup or reporting) that are viable for automation and implement solutions, thereby reducing manual testing required by Pronto delivery teams while still ensuring high coverage.
• Analyse test results, identify defects, document them clearly in Dev Ops/Git Hub and work with developers to verify fixes.
• Participate in sprint planning and daily stand‑ups to provide testing estimates and flag potential quality risks early in the development cycle.
• Identify any new tools and technologies that may improve quality.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
• A formal qualification (Degree) in Computing Science or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience in QA Automation Software Development in Test (SDET) qualification preferable.
• Experience converting manual test cases into automated scripts.
• Experience with Java or another object‑oriented language.
• Knowledge of software development/issue tracking systems (e.g. Jira, MSDevOps).
• Experience with XML and XSLT.
• Experience with web service technologies (e.g. SOAP, REST, JSON).
• Solid understanding of SQL and database queries for test data verification.
• Knowledge of source code management technologies (e.g. SVN, Git).
• Experience with smartphone testing (primarily Android).
• Experience with SQL.

• Have an analytical mindset, where you look at a manual process and immediately start thinking about how to script it.
• Have the ability to explain technical bugs to non‑technical stakeholders clearly.
• Take pride in the…