Pricing Principal Testing Analyst

• Become part of a mutual organisation dedicated to its people and customers

• Play a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy and quality of pricing algorithm testing and deployment while driving continuous improvement in processes

• Benefit from the flexibility of working from home up to 80% of the time, supporting a healthy work-life balance

About the role:

An exciting new opportunity has arisen within the Deployment & Assurance team of our Pricing Department.

As a Principal Testing Analyst, you will utilise your technical expertise to support with the creation, implementation, and regularly reviews of the pricing algorithm testing standards, workflows, and processes to ensure effective deployment to our external rating engine.

You will play a key role in maintaining accuracy and functionality by reviewing the work of junior team members, ensuring adherence to best practices. Acting as a mentor, you will motivate and guide team members, sharing your experience to identify improvements and help deliver work on schedule.

You will assist in controlling the quality of team outputs by ensuring testing is conducted consistently and to defined standards, helping to eliminate errors in production systems. Collaborating closely with Pricing teams, Underwriting, and IT, you will ensure testing practices are effectively represented and executed within all projects and pricing changes. You will also provide representation for the team in meetings, occasionally deputising for senior colleagues as needed.

This role will involve hands-on delivery of testing tasks where required, ensuring timely deployments to production systems, while staying up to date with industry trends and technological developments to contribute to continuous improvement of team processes.

About you:

We’re looking for a motivated individual with a strong blend of technical and non-technical skills to thrive in this role.

Essential

You will have proven experience in testing and prior exposure to working with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Alongside these technical skills, you’ll need to demonstrate resilience, excellent stakeholder management, and the ability to challenge thinking and influence decisions. Strong communication skills, self-motivation, and the ability to work effectively on your own initiative are also key to success in this role.

Desirable

While not essential, experience within the insurance industry would be beneficial, as would familiarity with the Radar software and/or coding experience gained within a professional environment. Additionally, any prior experience delivering or managing change within a business context would be advantageous.

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 in the range of £45,000 to £55,000 depending on skill set and 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.

Working at NFU Mutual:

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward 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 are successful now and in the future.