Testing Strategy Lead

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About the project

Your responsibilities

• Design and implement a comprehensive testing strategy for operational and cyber resilience capabilities.
• Develop recovery testing plans and execution schedules for critical systems and business processes.
• Coordinate large-scale resilience and disaster recovery testing exercises involving multiple technical and business teams.
• Define and manage dependencies between business processes, applications, and infrastructure to ensure realistic recovery scenarios.
• Conduct risk assessments and design realistic disaster scenarios to validate organizational resilience.
• Develop and execute different types of resilience tests, including tabletop, integrated, and technology-level testing.
• Support the setup and configuration of testing environments for resilience and recovery exercises.
• Continuously improve the testing strategy based on test results, feedback, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Communicate testing strategy and results to senior stakeholders and ensure alignment between business and technology teams.

Our requirements

• Extensive experience as a Testing Manager, Test Strategy Lead, or similar senior testing leadership role within large organizations.
• Strong background in the financial services or banking sector, including familiarity with banking products and regulatory environments.
• Deep understanding of Business Continuity Management (BCM), Crisis Management, and Cyber/Operational Resilience.
• Proven experience designing and executing Disaster Recovery and recovery testing programs in complex environments.
• Experience managing large testing programs and coordinating cross-functional teams during resilience or recovery exercises.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across technology, security, risk, compliance, and business domains.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate strategic objectives into practical testing frameworks.

Optional

• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as DORA, EBA, PRA, or Basel.
• Experience working on enterprise resilience or regulatory transformation programs.

What we offer

• Participation in a strategic cyber resilience and operational resilience program.
• Opportunity to shape the long-term testing framework for recovery and resilience capabilities.
• Collaboration with senior stakeholders across risk, cyber security, technology, and business domains.
• High impact role contributing to the organizational resilience of a large financial institution.