Tester

Job title: Tester

Location: Leeds/Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Rate: £400 per day

Contract: 10 months+

SC security clearance is required for this role

Role Description
I am looking for a tester for a client of mine who are a leading IT systems integrator operating in the Uk public sector. You will join current their test team to support CIS1, CIS2, & DSS. This also includes being part of the Cyber resilience that is happening within IAM.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Strong capability to identify security gaps across systems and processes.
• Experience creating and applying risk models.
• Ability to develop and execute a comprehensive cyber security test strategy.
• Strong understanding of Azure security risks, especially related to Azure Storage.
• Knowledge of immutable backups and secure data retention strategies.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning, including full restore testing.
• Expertise in multi-factor authentication (MFA) setup and testing.
• Vulnerability management - scanning, prioritization, remediation validation.
• Ability to design and interpret security dashboards for monitoring and reporting
• Awareness of system throttling and its security implications.
• Ideally comfortable upskilling the rest of the team so we can cover basic Cybersecurity testing

Required Experience:

• Previous experience with manual testing (systems, APIs, and applications)
• Languages: JavaScript and Python
• Tools: Confluence, Jenkins, Jira, Splunk

Desired Industry and Competencies

• Knowledge of authentication mechanisms (OAuth, SAML, JWT, etc.).
• Experience working in healthcare

If you are interested in this role or wish to apply, please feel free to reply to this advert or call me on (phone number removed).