Testing and Exercising Analyst

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Maintain testing coverage across Important Business Services, resilience domains, impact tolerance severity, CMORG requirements and dependencies.
• Analyse resilience mapping, dependency, vulnerability, incident and previous exercise data to identify gaps, themes and targeted testing opportunities.
• Produce accurate testing management information, dashboards and evidence, including findings, limitations and actions.
• Coordinate exercise stakeholders, schedules, materials, logistics, data and documentation.
• Maintain records of exercise decisions, observations, issues, evidence and learning.
• Support debriefs and post-exercise reports; turn findings into clear, measurable actions.
• Track exercises, findings and remediation in Resolver or other agreed systems; monitor progress and escalate overdue or material items.
• Ensure action owners complete remediation on time.
• Conduct trend and thematic analysis, challenge assumptions, assess data quality and recommend proportionate maturity improvements.
• Maintain testing records, templates, guidance and audit trails.
• Build working relationships across business, resilience, technology, cyber, risk and threat-intelligence teams.
• Participate in trained on-call arrangements and support crisis response and other team priorities.

Essential qualifications

• Experience analysing qualitative and quantitative information from multiple sources and presenting balanced, evidence-based findings, trends and recommendations.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate records, evidence, actions and audit trails.
• Good planning, coordination and time-management skills.
• Ability to work across teams and turn complex information into clear insights and actions.

Development and tools

• The role offers opportunities to develop operational resilience and exercising expertise; prior testing-specialist status is not required.
• Resolver is named as one system for recording exercises, findings and actions; other agreed systems may be used.

Location and contract

• Location is listed as London or Southampton, United Kingdom.
• Contract type is permanent.