Role Description
• Act as the day-to-day contact between the Application Security function, internal delivery teams and UST for penetration testing scheduling and resource co-ordination.
• Maintain a consolidated view of requested, planned, scheduled, in-progress and completed penetration tests.
• Work with UST to identify and allocate suitably skilled testing resources against agreed demand and priorities.
• Co-ordinate test dates, resource availability, delivery milestones and changes to agreed schedules.
• Confirm test-readiness information is available, including scope, contacts, workplace readiness, access arrangements and required completion dates.
• Follow up outstanding information, actions and dependencies,
and co-ordinate test kick-offs with internal contacts and assigned UST testers.
• Track delivery through scope confirmation, resource assignment, testing, report delivery and retesting.
• Provide accurate status information and highlight scheduling conflicts, capacity constraints, blocked tests, delayed reports and overdue retests.
• Escalate prioritisation, technical, scope, quality and risk decisions to the Application Security Delivery Manager.
• Ensure requests follow the agreed security testing intake and projects front-door process.