Test Automation Engineer

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, schools, hospitals, businesses and ultimately, safer nations.

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.

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 an office in Uxbridge (West London) 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 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.

• 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., Type Script/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.

• 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 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.

• Hands‑on experience with Type Script/Playwright.
• Familiarity 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.
• 2–5 years of software engineering experience with knowledge of HTML, CSS, Type Script and ideally modern front‑end frameworks.
• Understanding of application state patterns, data flows (e.g., Pinia, Vuex, Redux) and reactivity/observables.
• Hands‑on experience with RESTful API, websockets and solid understanding of web development principles.
• Good foundation in data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
• Strong collaboration skills and willingness to work with others.
• Resilient systems mindset and excitement about building, operating and maintaining scalable systems.
• Analytical mindset – ability to investigate root causes and find solutions.
• Flexibility – happy exploring new areas and jumping into new features.
• Willingness to learn – continuously improve our codebase through patterns or libraries.
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