QA Lead 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. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Motorola Solutions is seeking a highly skilled, detail-oriented Quality Assurance Test Lead. This individual will drive timely releases of our security surveillance solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality firmware and software, meeting customer expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of automated testing pipelines for video surveillance systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, timelines, and testing approaches.
• Analyze test results, identify improvement areas, and maintain quality metrics and reporting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts and project plans to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Stay current with industry best practices and improve cross-team issue resolution processes.
• Conduct field testing as needed.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in Python programming, with a focus on building scalable, efficient, and maintainable codebases.
• Required experience with Pytest or other Python testing frameworks (e.g., unittest, Nose, Robot Framework) for test automation, including writing, maintaining, and executing test cases.
• Understanding of hardware and software
• Experience developing APIs for test automation 
• Proficiency with test management tools (e.g., TestRail, Zephyr) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Hands on experience with Linux command line interface
• Networking: Understanding of TCP and UDP networking protocols; ability to design and execute relevant test cases.

Nice to have experience

• Expertise in IP camera/video management system networking and protocols.
• Exposure to GitLab CI/CD
• Experience working with hardware (e.g. robotics)
• Image Processing: Experience in testing image processing pipelines.
• Camera Systems: Familiarity with camera hardware/software interfaces, sensor validation, and test automation
• Hardware/Software Co-Verification: Experience working closely with hardware teams to plan, execute, and document board bring-up and system-level validation.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical engineering discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years' experience developing automation software (Python) for testing embedded hardware/robotics and CI/CD integration
• 4+ years' QA leadership experience, preferably with firmware releases for video management systems or similar devices.
• Excellent teamwork, troubleshooting, communication, and organizational skills; highly adaptable and proactive.

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 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.