Senior Security Tester

Join us as a Senior Security Tester

• Take on a new challenge and use your specialist knowledge to support the wider bank in building and operating secure services that protect both colleagues and customers
• You’ll act as a subject matter expert in a security related field, making sure that the security implications of the backlog are understood in the right way, building security early into design
• You’ll be joining an exciting and fast-paced area of the bank, where you can expect great exposure both for you and your work
• You’ll work from home most of the time, but you’ll also spend a minimum of 1 day per week working from the office

What you'll do

As a Senior Security Tester, you’ll work at a domain level to understand and ensure robust security is continuously considered and incorporated at every stage, programme increment and feature team delivery throughout the development lifecycle and through to support.

You’ll collaborate with feature teams and participate in story refinement, sprint planning and retrospective sessions, establishing a culture of innovation and strategic thinking that makes sure that the bank has knowledge of, and opportunities to exploit, the latest developments in your area of specialism.

You’ll also be:

• Supporting with the identification of risks, while contributing to risk management strategies to achieve business objectives and customer outcomes
• Use specialist knowledge to support the wider organisation in building and operating secure services that protect both colleagues and customers
• Understand, implement agile methodologies and actively contribute to finding opportunities to build security early into design
• Make complex or technical issues actionable by colleagues through effective communication
• Building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the group and where appropriate, with third parties, to make sure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the organisation

The skills you'll need

You’ll need experience and knowledge of technology security controls within the security technology specialism along with an understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Proven experience of managing security testing assignments, including scoping, delivering tests and producing high quality reports in line with good industry practice
• Hands on security testing experience or certifications from CREST, Cyberscheme, Tigerscheme or Offensive security
• Strong communication skills, ability to write technical reports, detailed presentation and documentation
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills