She worked on the feature film Up There which stars Burn Gorman and Warren Brown. She appeared in the comedy Sketch series Burnistoun for which she is a member of the principal cast. The show is written by Robert Florence and Iain Connell and produced by The Comedy Unit. Strain has filmed three consecutive series, the third of which was televised in August 2012. A special episode, Burnistoun Goes To Work was televised in 2016. She was a regular in the BBC One Scotland television series River City, in the recurring role of Angie Warren. She had a role in the BBC One drama, One of Us alongside Juliet Stevenson, John Lynch and Joe Dempsie, and she most recently appeared in an episode of Outlander, opposite Caitriona Balfe which was televised in October 2017. Straing also worked on the feature film Anna and the Apocalypse, directed by John McPhail (director) and appeared in a central role for the feature film And Violet, also in 2017.