Test Automation 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.

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.

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  Mission-Critical Quality Assurance: Directly contribute to public safety and enterprise security by executing and assuring the quality of cutting-edge solutions.

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  Support Quality Benchmarks: Work with senior engineers to support continuous quality benchmarks for real-time systems and new AI features.

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  Develop and Maintain Test Suites: Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests within existing frameworks (e.g., TypeScript/Playwright) across UI, API, and backend systems.

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  Performance Test Support: Assist with the execution and initial analysis of performance, load, and stress tests on high-performance systems.

• 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.

• Practical working knowledge of Playwright, TypeScript, or other modern frameworks, along with the ability to demonstrate execution and debugging, is highly desired.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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

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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.