Resilience Testing

**Job Title** Resilience Testing - AVP

**Location**:Pune

**About Barclays**

**Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.**

**Risk and Control Objective**

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

**Working Flexibly**

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

**Introduction**:
The role of the Resilience Testing Practitioner is to be accountable for the allocated Suites, ensuring resilience end to end testing meets the business needs and requirements and achieves tangible continual service improvements.

**Test Plan & Implementation**:

- Execute structured Technology & Operational testing to demonstrate the effectiveness of recovery invocation and business communications

Reviews and Assurance:

- Track and test outcomes based on criticality (remediation and enhancement) and validate the closure of actions; incorporate lessons learnt into subsequent tests to validate embedment

Propagation of learns & opportunities:

- Able to identify opportunities to propagate learnings across other areas

**Support other work streams of Group Resilience**
- Ability to support other work streams within Group Resilience based on incoming demand into the Shared Services team

**What will you be doing?**

To undertake the following key accountabilities:

- Effectively engage key stakeholders relating to defining forward schedule of tests, execution and post exercise reviews;
- Successfully facilitate execution of tests & Post Exercise Reports (PERs) against SLAs;
- Develop and maintain an operational testing plan to meet Resilience Partner & Business requirements;
- Define and collate the management information needed for the service in line with defined standards;
- Ensure that dependencies and impacts on any other services/functions are managed effectively;
- Produce documentation & presentation material for stakeholder management purposes;
- Maintain a good knowledge of current practice and awareness of current developments within own area(s) of expertise. Demonstrates awareness of areas outside own specialism, as appropriate.
- This role sits within the Group Resilience Shared Services organisation and therefore this role may be required to support /lead other deliverables /workstream within Group Resilience in alignment with the Fungible delivery model of the team

**What we’re looking for**:

- Adaptability; able to absorb information and adapt to a changing environment
- Strong interpersonal skills, builds strong relationships, leads by example, motivates & empowers

**Skills that will help you in the role**:

- Continuous Improvement & Learning - Training; able to run training & learning sessions
- Business & Stakeholder Awareness; good understanding of the broader functions in the Bank (e.g. Technology and Operations) and stakeholders in your area of specialism
- Understanding the wider context; able to look beyond the immediate problem, identify underlying causes of problems/opportunities; manages in a way which considers the wider implication, historical context, future impact and strategies
- Risk Management; able to identify and monitor risks and issues, to plan and implement appropriate responses for mitigation or resolution, including escalations, progressed at pace to avoid unnecessary delays

**Where will you be working?**

Pune

**Be More at Barclays**

Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

**Purpose, Values and Mindset**

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

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