Security Test Co-Ordinator – 9 Months FTC

Role Overview

• Manage the end-to-end planning of security tests, ensuring clarity of scope, objectives, timelines, and required resources
• Assign appropriate internal or external testers based on skills, capacity, and test requirements.
• Maintain the testing schedule and proactively identify risks, dependencies, or conflicts.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure test plans are fully understood and properly scoped.
• Guide teams through scoping discussions to ensure accurate and actionable test requirements.
• Communicate testing timelines, prerequisites, and expected responsibilities across teams.
• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding of internal and third-party testers in line with enterprise processes.
• Ensure all pre-requisites (access, environments, test accounts, approvals, prerequisites) are in place for tests to start on time.
• Provide occasional onsite supervision when third-party testers or activities require physical oversight.
• Ensure security testing findings progress through the full lifecycle: triage, remediation assignment, retesting, and closure.
• Track remediation progress with stakeholders and ensure SLAs and internal policies are met.
• Maintain accurate documentation and reporting throughout the lifecycle.
• Maintain clear documentation of processes, decisions, and test artefacts.
• Support improvements to security testing processes, workflows, and governance.
• Ensure work aligns with enterprise security standards, policies, and compliance requirements

Requirements

• Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent testing activities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-engagement abilities, including facilitating scoping conversations and resolving blockers.
• Experience coordinating technical teams, suppliers, or testing activities (security testing experience is highly advantageous).
• Ability to understand problems, work collaboratively to solve them, and clearly document outcomes.
• Familiarity with security testing processes (e.g., penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, red/blue team activities) is beneficial.
• Ability to manage suppliers and work within structured enterprise processes.
• Competent in tracking actions, dependencies, risks, and timelines across multiple workstreams.
• Requirement to report security testing updates and overviews to executive and c-suite

Benefits

• Company Bonus Scheme
• Matched pension contributions up to 8.5%
• 26 days annual leave + 2 Life Days (and bank holidays)
• Single Private Health Cover
• Complimentary Private Medical
• Income Protection
• Flexible Benefits – EV Scheme, Money Coach, Will Writing, Mortgage Advice, Dental and Eye Care Schemes.
• Enhanced Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity, Adoption)
• Wellness Allowance £500
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted Health Assessments
• Volunteering Days
• Matched Funding