Quality Analyst

Overview

• Provide oversight of our delivery partners test plans and test execution results across their full delivery lifecycle(s).
• Support and maintain the Aegon Quality Plan for oversight of our delivery partners performance.
• Support Aegon’s oversight of the strategic business migration programme, working closely with our delivery partners and internal Aegon stakeholders.
• Provide input and support for clear, timely reporting on programme risks, issues, dependencies and constraints and overall delivery performance, whilst also ensuring timely engagement with relevant stakeholders.
• Support the establishment and embedding of effective assurance disciplines across the programme, including supporting audits, reviews and delivery health assessments.
• Provide input and support to regular reviews with programme teams, suppliers and senior stakeholders to monitor delivery progress and help drive effective oversight.
• Provide input and support to ensure appropriate oversight governance and controls are maintained throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Build collaborative and effective relationships with our business, technology, delivery partners and suppliers to support successful programme delivery oversight.
• Promote a positive, collaborative and delivery-focused culture.
• Ensure adherence with all relevant regulatory obligations, company policies, standards and risk management requirements.
• Experience of test delivery, assurance and oversight within a varied and diverse portfolio of delivery projects / programmes (both within and out with the Financial Services sector).
• Experience of working to relevant industry standards and frameworks with a good appreciation and understanding of delivery lifecycle methodologies, programme governance and test quality assurance frameworks.
• Experience of working with third party suppliers and strategic delivery partners.
• Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage at the relevant levels of an organisation.
• General commercial and financial management awareness, including budget forecasting and cost control.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance delivery priorities and oversight requirements.
• Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
• A positive and collaborative one-team mindset and attitude.
• We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place.  We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%.  If you decide to contribute more, we’ll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that’s 7% from you and 13% from us).
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
• 36 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Quality Analyst

18 Months Fixed Term Contract

Location: Edinburgh (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: A competitive salary from £43,120 – £64,680 depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date: 1st October 2026

People are living longer and we’re excited by the opportunities this brings to help people live their best lives. We’re here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions.

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're looking for an experienced Quality Analyst to join our Transformation team and support a strategic business migration programme, delivered in collaboration and partnership with our delivery partners.

This is a fixed-term role to support the delivery of a specific project and is expected to run for approximately 18 months from November 2026.

Reporting to the Transformation Programme Manager, with a dotted reporting line into the Transformation Programme Director, you'll provide input, support and oversight across a complex strategic business migration programme involving multiple stakeholders, technical teams and delivery partners. You'll play an important supporting role in helping to ensure that the migration is delivered to appropriate expectations and quality standards and safely and in line with agreed scope, budgets and timelines.

Key responsibilities include:

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

What’s in it for you?

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.  To