Senior QA Engineering Lead - AI-Driven DevOps & Quality

Aegon UK Corporate Services Ltd; Witham; Hybrid; GBP 71,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pension scheme

Discretionary bonus

34 days leave per year

Private medical cover

Life assurance

Critical illness cover

Parental leave

Retail discount vouchers

Cycle2work scheme

Subsidised restaurant and GP services

Job summary

Aegon UK Corporate Services Ltd is seeking a Principal QA Engineer in Edinburgh or Witham. The role leads the QA Engineering strategy, driving DevOps and AI-augmented delivery across multiple teams.

You will establish quality governance, gates and metrics, while guiding automation and testing across pipelines. The position requires senior leadership in quality engineering, experience with automation-first delivery, and a proven ability to shape a modern QA function within financial services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in defining and driving Quality Engineering strategies across large-scale technology environments.
• Delivered automation-first testing approaches, CI/CD pipelines and modern Quality Engineering practices.
• Experience evaluating, implementing and governing AI-enabled testing solutions.
• Transformed testing and quality assurance practices within complex organisations.
• Lead QA/Quality Engineering teams with high performance.

Responsibilities

• 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 DoD.
• Leading 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 quality ownership 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

Skills

Quality engineering leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Automation-first testing

AI-enabled testing

DevOps

Tools

Test automation frameworks

Cloud-based testing tools

Continuous testing solutions

Job description

Aegon UK Corporate Services Ltd is seeking a Principal QA Engineer in Edinburgh or Witham. The role leads the QA Engineering strategy, driving DevOps and AI-augmented delivery across multiple teams.

You will establish quality governance, gates and metrics, while guiding automation and testing across pipelines. The position requires senior leadership in quality engineering, experience with automation-first delivery, and a proven ability to shape a modern QA function within financial services.