Quality Engineering Accessibility Specialist

• Lead and shape accessibility testing standards across digital products and services
• Play a key role in building a modern Quality Engineering capability within NFU Mutual
• Hybrid 80% homeworking and 20% from Stratford upon Avon

About the role

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.

As a QE Accessibility Specialist, you'll help build a modern Quality Engineering capability that supports the organisation's move to a product based operating model. This role is central to improving confidence in delivery by embedding quality and accessibility across the full lifecycle of digital change.

Working with Quality Engineers you'll support teams to design and implement accessibility testing approaches, assess accessibility impacts, and provide expert guidance to improve outcomes.

Your role will combine leadership with hands on involvement. You'll design and oversee accessibility testing, identify risks and defects, and ensure compliance with industry standards. You'll also coach colleagues and support continuous improvement by evolving frameworks, tools and practices in line with changing accessibility requirements.

You'll be based in Stratford upon Avon, working in a full-time role with a hybrid pattern of 80% homeworking and 20% office presence. Internally this role is called QE Accessibility Specialist.

About you

You are an experienced accessibility specialist, ideally from a regulated environment, with strong Quality Engineering knowledge and a proven ability to embed accessibility standards across digital environments. Alongside your technical expertise, you bring a high level of attention to detail and strong communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across technical and non-technical teams. You're confident influencing and educating stakeholders, coaching others to improve accessibility outcomes, and applying a proactive, problem-solving approach to drive continuous improvement.

You'll also bring: (Essentials)

• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and guidelines including WCAG
• Experience using accessibility testing tools and assistive technologies
• Knowledge of automation testing and Quality Engineering practices
• Ability to influence, coach and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders
• Understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML and CSS to identify accessibility issues

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 £55,000 - £60,000 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

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.