{"id":1522721,"url":"https://alion.io/job/motorola-solutions-software-test-engineer-4","title":"Software Test Engineer","company":{"id":1504,"name":"Motorola Solutions","domain":"motorolasolutions.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/motorola-solutions","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":145,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.821,"repost_share":0.021,"time_to_fill_p50_days":33,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Glasgow, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":39000,"max_usd":92000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":35},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"Appium","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":true},{"name":"Cypress","optional":true},{"name":"Git","optional":true},{"name":"GitHub","optional":true},{"name":"Java","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"Playwright","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-30T12:33:46Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-30","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T09:22:36Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Company Overview\nAt 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.\nDepartment Overview\nOur 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.\nJob Description\nWe 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.\nAt 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nQuality Assurance & Test Execution\nTest mobile software solutions and applications to help ensure products meet requirements and are free of defects\nWrite, maintain, and execute comprehensive test cases for regular software releases\nRead and evaluate requirements documentation from Technical Project Managers, customers, or team members to clarify scope and provide accurate testing estimates\nAutomation & Quality Standards Advocacy\nAdvocate for testing best practices across Pronto delivery teams and assist in rolling out automated test solutions\nMaintain automated test suites and identify new testing tools, technologies, and ideas to continuously improve software quality\nTake personal pride in release quality and actively challenge project outputs or block deployments if established quality standards are not met\nCross-Functional Collaboration & Field Verification\nAnalyse quality metrics and defect trends to implement proactive solutions that improve overall product delivery\nCommunicate complex technical bugs clearly to non-technical stakeholders and partner with core development teams to understand system behavior\nAttend customer premises periodically to witness on-site software usage in real-world operational environments\nBasic Requirements\nFormal qualification (Degree) in Computing Science\nCommercial software testing experience\n3 years UK residency required for security check clearance\nJob Requirements\nTechnical Expertise\nCommercial Testing Expertise to perform systematic test execution, test case creation, and quality tracking across mission-critical software solutions\nAnalytical Mindset to review manual processes and evaluate how to script, streamline, or automate workflows\nRequirements Refinement to evaluate technical documentation, provide accurate time estimates, and collaborate with technical teams\nTechnical Communication to explain technical bugs clearly to non-technical stakeholders and liaise with core software development teams\nProfessional Experience\nQuality Advocacy to maintain strict quality standards during release cycles, provide constructive feedback without damaging relationships, and advocate for quality standards\nField Verification to attend customer sites periodically and witness live operational software usage\nWorkload Prioritisation to assess competing tasks continuously and prioritize critical testing activities effectively\nPreferred Qualifications (Optional)\nInterest in learning or experience with automated test frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Appium, Cypress)\nKnowledge of Agile methodologies\nISTQB certification\nExperience with Java or another Object-Oriented programming language\nKnowledge of source code management technologies (e.g., Git, SubVersion)\nKnowledge of software development and issue tracking systems (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub)\nExperience with Android smartphone testing\nExperience with XML and XSLT\nWhy Join Us?\nCompetitive salary and bonus schemes\nTwo weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus)\n25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays\nAttractive defined contribution pension scheme\nEmployee stock purchase plan\nFlexible working options\nPrivate medical care\nLife assurance\nEnhanced maternity and paternity pay\nCareer development support and wide ranging learning opportunities\nEmployee health and wellbeing support (EAP, wellbeing guidance, etc.)\nCarbon neutral initiatives/goals\nCorporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering\nWell-known companies discount scheme\nTeam bonding days\nJoin us at Motorola Solutions in Glasgow to build mission-critical technologies for front-line responders and help us in 'Solving for safer' every day.\n#LI-NW1 #SoftwareTesting #TestAutomation #QAEngineering #DigitalPolicing #Pronto #AndroidTesting #AgileTesting #GlasgowJobs #TechJobsUK\nTravel Requirements\nNoneRelocation Provided\nNonePosition Type\nExperiencedReferral Payment Plan\nYesCompany\nMotorola Solutions UK LimitedEEO Statement\nMotorola 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.\nWe 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. 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