Advanced Product Security Senior Tester

Purpose of the role

To identify potential vulnerabilities within the banks IT systems using penetration testing tools and techniques to ensure security of computer systems, applications, servers, and networks.

Accountabilities

• Development and execution of assessments, audits, and threat models to identify vulnerabilities within the banks systems, applications and servers using penetration tools and techniques, and communicate key findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Collaboration with stakeholders and IT teams to identify emerging cyber-attack techniques, tools and technologies and to support the development of penetration testing methodologies.
• Development and maintenance of comprehensive documents and reports for senior stakeholders on penetration test findings, and remediation guidance.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements and controls in business processes, application/services, to enhance overall security posture and assurance.
• Identification of emerging vulnerabilities, exploit codes and cyber-attacks to develop testing methodologies and assurance activities.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a Advanced Product Security Senior Tester at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

To be successful as an Advanced Product Security Senior Tester, you should have experience with:

• Strong software development and secure code review skills, with the ability to analyse codebases, trace data and control flows, and identify complex design, implementation and business-logic vulnerabilities.
• Architecture review and threat modelling, including identifying trust boundaries, abuse cases and attack paths, and translating them into targeted security test cases.
• Advanced penetration testing of web applications, APIs and modern platforms, combining white-box and dynamic techniques to validate exploitability and create controlled proof-of-concept exploits.
• Correlating source-code analysis with runtime testing to identify root causes, control bypasses and vulnerabilities that automated tools or conventional testing may miss.
• Assessing cloud-native, containerised, distributed or AI-enabled applications and their supporting security controls.
• Producing clear, reproducible technical findings, risk assessments and practical remediation guidance for engineering and senior stakeholders.
• AI-assisted AppSec and penetration-testing techniques with appropriate human validation, evidence checking and protection of sensitive information.
• Leading complex technical assessments, performing peer review and collaborating across Product, Engineering, Architecture, AppSec and Penetration Testing teams.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• Experience in financial services or other regulated environments.
• Professional experience combining software engineering with product security, secure code review or penetration testing.
• Vulnerability research, reverse engineering, exploit development, custom security tooling or test automation.
• Knowledge of OWASP ASVS, SAMM and testing guidance, together with relevant NIST and MITRE frameworks.
• Relevant certifications such as CREST, OSCP, OSEP, OSWE, GIAC/SANS or CSSLP, or equivalent demonstrable practical expertise.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The role is based out of Pune.