Principal QA Engineer

Job Description Summary

Job Description Principal QA Engineer Permanent Location :
Edinburgh or Witham (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time )Salary: £70,800 - £106,200 (depending on the experience you can bring)
Closing date: 23rd October 2026

We're Aegon. We're a company of ambitious, positive problem-solvers who get things done. We're a team, not a group of individuals. Collaboration is our life force and we believe it's our duty to leave things better than we find them.

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter:
Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

We are now looking for a Principal QA Engineer to join us in Edinburgh or Witham. This is a senior Technical Testing/Quality Engineering leadership role responsible for the QA Engineering strategic shift to Dev Ops and AI Augmented delivery model.

Operating at strategic level, you will provide end-to-end quality engineering leadership across multiple delivery teams, products and technology domains. You will be accountable for establishing quality strategies, driving and implementing said strategies, governing and measuring the implementation and adoption of them and ensuring adherence to the Quality Engineering & Dev Ops (QEDO) operating model.

The role combines the responsibilities with modern Quality Engineering, Dev Ops, Performance Engineering and AI-enabled delivery practices.

You will work with Solution Architects and Engineers to ensure that robust Quality Engineering Dev Ops solutions are embedded within the delivery teams and will oversee the implementation into the delivery teams from inception through to production operation.

Key Responsibilities for the role include:

Defining programme level/value stream Quality Engineering strategies aligned to business objectives.

Establishing technical quality governance, reporting and assurance frameworks.

Defining, implementing and governing technical quality gates.

Ensuring compliance with DoR and DoDLeading and Governing technical testing for automation, NFR validation and release readiness activities.

Driving proactive identification of technical, delivery and operational risks.

Driving and defining automation and AI testing strategies using automation first delivery models.

Ensuring automated testing forms part of all CI/CD pipelines.

Promoting “Keep us Safe, Keep us stable” ownership of quality across delivery teams.

Establishing quality metrics including coverage, deployment success and stability.

Driving continuous improvement through engineering excellence and automation.

Leading adoption of AI-enabled testing and governance of test engineering practices.

Acting as the technical quality representative for strategic technology initiatives.

Managing relationships across internal teams, suppliers and delivery partners.

Shaping and evolving the organisation's Quality Engineering strategy.

Mentoring, managing and developing team members

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

Proven experience in defining and driving Quality Engineering strategies across large-scale technology environments.

Experience influencing and leading cross-functional teams without direct line management authority.

Delivered automation-first testing approaches, CI/CD pipelines and modern Quality Engineering practices.

Established quality standards, technical quality gates, assurance frameworks and managed technology delivery risks.

Proven experience evaluating, implementing and governing AI-enabled testing solutions.

Transformed testing and…