Test Data Engineer

• Play a key role shaping enterprise test data strategy and improving delivery quality


• Opportunity to work at the heart of a major Quality Engineering transformation


• Hybrid 80% homeworking and 20% from Stratford upon Avon

Join NFU Mutual as we build a new Centre of Excellence for Quality Engineering. You’ll have the opportunity to help transform how quality is delivered across the full development lifecycle, elevating testing to a more integrated, proactive discipline. Working closely with our engineering and product teams, you’ll play a key role in delivering better outcomes for our customers. This is a rare opportunity to make a genuine impact while helping shape a team and function that’s still evolving.

We have an exciting new opportunity at NFU Mutual for a Test Data Engineer. This role sits within the IT Division and plays a central part in a strategic shift from traditional testing to a modern Quality Engineering model. You will help enable faster, more confident delivery while maintaining high standards of quality, trust and regulatory compliance.

As a Test Data Engineer, your focus will be to define and evolve the organisation’s approach to test data management. You will act as the subject matter expert for how test data is created, managed, protected and made available to delivery teams.

Working closely with Quality Engineering and wider technology teams, you will set standards and create reusable patterns for test data management. You will also explore the use of automation, AI and machine learning to improve efficiency and consistency across delivery teams.

In this role, you will support delivery teams by providing technical guidance and helping them adopt best practice approaches to test data creation, masking, synthesis and refresh. You will also ensure that all test data practices meet data protection and regulatory requirements, working with relevant teams across NFU Mutual to maintain compliance.

You will lead the development of automated test data solutions, ensuring they integrate effectively with delivery pipelines and reduce manual effort. Alongside this, you will identify risks and constraints in test data processes, helping teams improve reliability, reduce duplication and avoid delays.

You are an experienced Quality Engineering or Data Engineering professional with a strong background in test data management. You are confident working in complex environments, bringing both technical depth and a collaborative mindset to help teams improve how test data is created, managed and used across delivery. You are comfortable working at pace, influencing stakeholders and driving improvements that enhance quality, consistency and efficiency.

You combine technical expertise with strong analytical thinking and a proactive approach to problem solving. You are able to navigate ambiguity, identify risks and work with others to implement practical, scalable solutions that support modern engineering practices.

You’ll also bring

• Experience in Test Data Management including data creation, masking, synthesis and refresh strategies


• Expertise in automating test data solutions and integrating them with delivery pipelines


• Strong database management and querying skills using tools such as SQL alongside scripting using Python


• Experience using test data generation and management tools (e.g. GenRocket, Informatica, Delphix or similar solutions)


• Knowledge of test data tooling and modern approaches including AI driven methods


• Experience working in test leadership or within complex delivery environments

This role is internally known as Quality Engineering Test Data Specialist

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.

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

• Salary – £50,000 - £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


• 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

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.