Contract type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 28th May 2025
We’re looking for a Senior Test Analyst to join our Mobile App Team within our Digital area. Its an exciting time to join with ambitious plans you will have a real opportunity to help shape the test journey and contribute to a truly collaborative, engaged team.
Working closely with delivery teams, you’ll help shape test strategy early, improve our automation and regression capability, and provide clear insight on quality, risks and readiness—supporting our Purpose to help build financial resilience, move fairly to a sustainable world, and strengthen the mutual choice for customers.
About the role
* Analyse functional and non-functional requirements to define test conditions, test scenarios and coverage.
* Create and maintain traceability between requirements, test cases and outcomes.
* Design, build and execute manual and automated tests, including reusable regression packs.
* Record, triage and manage defects through to resolution, providing clear evidence.
* Report on progress, quality, risks and readiness using agreed metrics and standards.
* Support and mentor Test Analysts, sharing good practice and helping embed continuous improvement across the team.
* Experience of automated test tools such as Ready API or Perfecto would be helpful though not essential.
About you
* Proven experience in software testing across the delivery lifecycle, including early test design and shift-left practices.
* A positive, collaborative attitude where you appreciate that good work is a team effort.
* Strong understanding of testing techniques for functional and non-functional testing (e.g., performance, usability, reliability).
* Hands-on experience with test automation tools and an ability to identify where automation adds the most value.
* Coaching or mentoring experience.
* A mindset of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.