Security Testing Practice Lead
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Job description
You'll be responsible for leading and scaling the security testing practice, ensuring high-quality delivery across engagements while shaping the future direction of the service offering.
This includes owning delivery standards, supporting commercial activity, and mentoring a team of testers - all while remaining hands-on where needed., * Lead and develop the security testing practice (services, tooling, methodologies)
- Oversee delivery across testing engagements (web, infra, cloud, etc.)
- Ensure quality, consistency, and technical excellence across all outputs
- Support pre-sales, scoping and client engagement activities
- Manage team utilisation, capacity, and performance
- Mentor and develop testers, driving a strong technical culture
- Contribute to practice growth and new service development
Requirements
This is a hands-on leadership role, combining technical delivery with practice growth, team development, and client engagement - ideal for someone who wants to step into (or is already operating at) a leadership level while still staying close to the tech., * Strong background in penetration testing / security testing (CHECK or equivalent)
- Experience leading or mentoring teams (or ready to step up)
- Ability to engage with clients and support commercial discussions
- Strong reporting and stakeholder communication skills
- Experience across web, infrastructure, cloud and application testing
- Understanding of delivery processes, quality assurance and scaling services