Test Automation Lead - Motorola Solutions

Department Overview

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Test Automation Lead to take ownership of our automated testing strategy. Candidates should have experience in leading a team of automation engineers and be capable of developing automated test solutions for the Pronto platform whilst guiding fellow testers to roll these solutions out across the department. You will be responsible for helping to convert 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 "other viable processes"—looking 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 & 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.

Basic Requirements

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Be capable of Developing, maintaining, and scaling a robust test automation framework, using tools like Cypress / Playwright, for the Pronto Platform and rolling 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, thus reducing the amount of manual testing required by Pronto delivery teams, whilst still ensuring high levels of coverage

Analyse test results, identify defects, document them clearly in DevOps/GitHub 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

Academic & Technical Requirements:

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 of converting manual test cases into automated scripts

Experience of Java or another OO language

Knowledge of software development / issue tracking systems (e.g. Jira, MS DevOps etc.)

Experience of XML and XSLT

Experience with web service technologies (e.g. SOAP, REST, JSON etc)

Solid understanding of SQL and database queries for test data verification.