Senior QA Engineer

Background

The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.  

At Motion Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future.  Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.

We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness. 

We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable. Our focus is on electrification and telemetry, control and analytics.

To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motorsport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets.

By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future.

Join Us as a Senior QA Engineer – Driving Quality Across Intelligent Systems

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Engineer to join our engineering team. You will play a key role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our advanced technology solutions. Projects span automotive innovations, and vehicle communications for mass transport platforms.

As a senior member of the QA Engineering team, you will be embedded within multi-disciplinary portfolio teams and report to the QA Lead. You’ll lead testing efforts across complex hardware, software, and cloud systems, with a strong emphasis on automation, backend validation, and system integration. 

The role is within our Connected Intelligence business unit, which develops and operates vertically integrated end-to-end connectivity and analytics products and services for Transportation, Vehicle, and IoT markets. We operate worldwide. 

Key Responsibilities 

Quality Assurance & Testing 

• Perform system and integration testing on complex systems enabling vehicle communications, with a focus on mass transport platforms.
  
• Design and execute comprehensive test plans and scenarios for software, hardware, and cloud-integrated systems.
  
• Create and maintain automated test suites using tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Robot Framework, and Python.
  
• Conduct functional, performance, regression, and exploratory testing across multiple platforms.
  
• Validate embedded software and real-time systems used in high-performance applications.
  

Test Design & Execution 

• Lead test design activities and execute test cases across hardware/software/cloud systems.
  
• Derive and manage test data requirements, ensuring consistency and reusability.
  

Test Environment & Infrastructure 

• Provision and maintain test environments (e.g. simulation rigs, HIL setups, staging systems).
  
• Ensure environments are aligned with release versions and troubleshoot issues in collaboration with DevOps.
  
• Use both virtual environments and physical setups for testing.
  

Cross-functional Collaboration 

• Attend sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily stand-ups.
  
• Collaborate with developers, QAs, and product owners to clarify requirements.
  
• Estimate testing effort and participate in risk-based test planning.
  
• Represent QA within cross-functional product squads.
  
• Validate production-mirrored environments and maintain
  
• Contribute to test strategy and planning, communicate progress and risks.
  
• Mentor junior QAs and conduct code reviews.
  

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience 

• Experience in a commercial software testing environment.
  
• Strong understanding of test levels/types and risk mitigation strategies.
  
• Experience reviewing project requirements for scope, coverage, and testability.
  
• Experience with backend testing
  
• Experience using test management tools (e.g. qTest).
  
• Strong Windows and Linux (SSH) skills.
  
• Experience with cloud platforms and containerisation technologies.
  
• Experience with Jira. AWS and configuration management tools (e.g. Git).
  
• Familiarity with networking concepts (Wi-Fi, POE, Ethernet).
  
• Familiarity with mobile communication technologies (3G, 4G, 5G, LTE).
  
• Practical experience creating automated tests and understanding their pros/cons.
  
• Experience working in Agile teams and using MS Office tools.
  
• Understanding of embedded systems and real-time software testing.
  
• Experience with performance and load testing tools.
  
• Knowledge of database testing and API testing methodologies.
  
• Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing concepts.
  
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  
• Strong attention to detail and a systematic approach to testing.
  
• Experience mentoring junior QAs
  
• Effective communication skills for documentation and cross-team collaboration.
  
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
  
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with industry trends.
  
• ISTQB Foundation or higher certification.
  

Desirable Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of continuous delivery pipelines and tools (e.g. Jenkins).
  
• Understanding of automotive, aerospace, or other safety-critical industry
• Python 3 experience, including writing tests.
• Experience with Robot Framework.
• Writing and analysing SQL queries.
  
• Familiarity with tools such as RabbitMQ, Icinga, and Influx.
  

What we can offer you

In return for everything you bring to the table, we can ensure an exciting, challenging role in a dynamic business surrounded by some of the best people in their respective fields.

At Applied we firmly believe it’s the relationships and friendships we create while working that make us special. We’re also aware that the world is changing and we are part of that change. We all want and need different things from our work and home lives, so, if you have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.

• Annual leave (25 days + bank holidays, pro-rated for part time colleagues).
  

• Enhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and pay.
  

• Flexible working policies, including Hybrid Working.
  

• Life assurance to the value of 4 times base salary
  

• Opportunity to join the Applied Pension Plan
  
• Company funded individual private healthcare with the opportunity to extend to partner or spouse and/or dependents at a discounted rate.
  
• Electric car scheme – opportunity to drive a brand-new car in a more affordable way through this salary sacrifice scheme. Employees are eligible to join the scheme after successful competition of their probationary period.

Who we are

Motion Applied (formerly McLaren Applied) are a medium-sized tech firm spun out of McLaren Group. We’re looking for people who will thrive in a non-hierarchical, growth-orientated company, self-starters who are flexible and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach.

Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do. Motion Applied are also members of the UK Government Disability Confident Scheme.