Software Test 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, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

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. Pronto has been designed with and for front line operational users. As a result, it is 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. Our team started as Kelvin Connect in 2002, a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow. Now, as part of Motorola Solutions, we continue to expand with future opportunities in the UK and beyond.

Job Description

The role of the Software Test Engineer is to work as part of an agile delivery team to verify and manually test our software.

We are looking for a motivated individual, who is confident to take ownership of quality within a team environment and is always thinking of ways to improve the standard of product quality.

This role offers flexible, hybrid working with an expectancy to attend the Glasgow office several times per month, where applicable.

Important - this role requires NPPV3 clearance, you must have been a resident of the UK for a minimum of 3 years

Basic Requirements

Core Competencies: 

• A high level of communication skills and technical understanding

• Communication with core software development team to understand solution behaviour

• Communication with Pronto delivery teams to understand quality issues and improve where required

• A critical eye for detail, that challenges the status quo

• Capable of delivering critical feedback without damaging relationships

• To be outspoken when projects are producing sub-standard output

• Be open to change, both with technologies and methodologies

• Be responsible for the quality of the product

• Continually assess workload and prioritise relevant work activities

Academic and Technical Qualifications

Must have

• 3 years UK residency is required for security check

• A formal qualification (Degree) in Computing Science or equivalent experience

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

• Experience of Java or another OO language

Desirable

• 2+ years experience of commercial software testing

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies

• ISTQB certification

• Knowledge of source code management technologies (e.g. GIT, SubVersion etc.)

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

• Experience with Smartphone testing (primarily Android)

• Experience with automated test frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Appium, Cypress etc.)

• Experience of XML and XSLT

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

• Experience of SQL

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes.

• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).

• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.

• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.

• Employee stock purchase plan.

• Flexible working options.

• Private medical care.

• 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.

• Well-known companies discount schemes

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Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

Company

Motorola Solutions UK Limited

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.