Senior Quality Engineer

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Senior Quality Engineer

Region: Midlands

Location: Stratford-upon-Avon

Contract type: Permanent

Reference number: ITDI01690

Working pattern: Full-time

Salary: Circa £55,000 + 17.5% annual bonus + benefits package

Closing date: 6th November 2026

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Senior Quality Engineer

• Shape the future of Quality Engineering at NFU Mutual


• Own quality outcomes across business-critical products and services


• Help embed modern Quality Engineering practices across delivery teams


• Support Digital and Customer Data products and services


• Hybrid working: 80% homeworking and 20% Stratford-upon-Avon

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to play a key role in delivering trusted, high-quality outcomes across our Digital and Customer Data landscape. 
You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, Delivery and Business stakeholders to ensure quality is built into delivery from the start. You'll provide clear insight into quality health, delivery readiness, risks and automation maturity, helping teams make informed decisions based on evidence. 

You'll be responsible for shaping quality approaches that reflect customer needs, product risk and regulatory expectations while supporting the adoption of modern Quality Engineering practices, standards and frameworks. 

This is an opportunity to influence how quality is delivered, improve engineering practices, and help create reliable digital experiences and trusted customer data across the organisation. 

You'll also lead and support in-house and third-party colleagues, helping to build a high-performing and collaborative Quality Engineering community. 

About you

You're an experienced Quality Engineering professional who can influence with confidence, build strong stakeholder relationships and keep customer outcomes at the heart of decision-making. 

You'll bring: 

• Experience leading Quality Engineering activities within product, platform or change delivery teams 


• End-to-end ownership of quality outcomes, risks and assurance 


• Experience planning and coordinating testing across projects and business-as-usual change 


• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills 


• Experience providing quality insights to support delivery decisions 


• Knowledge of Agile, DevOps and modern Quality Engineering practices 


• A passion for continuous improvement and engineering excellence 

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique.  We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.   

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:   

• Salary - Circa £55,000 depending on experience 


• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)  


• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution


• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme


• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities


• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets


• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs


• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more


• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance


• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year


• Mentoring opportunities to help you grow your career


• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme


• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary


• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies. 


• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

 

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.

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Stratford-upon-Avon

Tiddington Road
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 7BJ

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