Senior Performance Test Engineer

At NFU Mutual, this Senior Performance Test Engineer role plays a key part in a strategic transformation from traditional testing to a modern Quality Engineering approach. You will help establish consistent, scalable performance testing standards that support delivery teams to operate at pace while maintaining high levels of quality, trust and regulatory compliance.

Working within the IT Division and reporting to the QE Non Functional Lead, you will work closely with engineering, product and delivery colleagues, you will influence stakeholders, review performance strategies and outcomes, and support teams to adopt consistent non functional quality standards and best practice. You will also play a key role in building organisational capability through coaching, mentoring and knowledge sharing.

You will translate strategic direction into practical standards, guidance and assurance activities that strengthen performance, resilience, capacity and scalability across products and platforms. Acting as a trusted subject matter expert, you will provide consultancy, challenge and recommendations that help teams identify and address performance risks early in the delivery lifecycle.

You will also lead on establishing best practice tooling, automation and integration into delivery pipelines, while providing consultancy and assurance on performance risks. This includes reviewing resilience and capacity testing, supporting audits and influencing stakeholders to improve outcomes across the business.

As a recognised specialist, you will coach and guide teams, helping to build capability and drive continuous improvement in performance engineering across NFU Mutual.

You are an experienced performance engineering specialist with a strong foundation in designing and delivering performance testing strategies that improve system reliability, scalability and resilience. You are confident working across complex delivery environments, using data and insight to identify issues, influence decisions and drive better outcomes.

You bring a structured and analytical approach to performance testing, ensuring solutions reflect real user behaviour and operational demand. You are equally comfortable working hands on with tools and automation as you are collaborating with stakeholders to embed best practice and improve overall quality engineering capability.

You’ll also bring

Experience designing performance testing strategies, including scalability, capacity and resilience testing

Strong capability in performance modelling and scenario based testing aligned to real world usage

Hands on experience of performance tooling and automation, such as JMeter or LoadRunner, and integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines

Ability to analyse performance data, identify bottlenecks and provide clear, actionable insight

Experience working with delivery teams to embed consistent performance standards and improve outcomes

This role is internally known as Quality Engineering Performance 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.

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.