Operational Resilience Head of Integrated Testing

Location: New York

## Operational Resilience Head of Integrated Testing Apply locations:
NYC (1285) time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R7192
** Operational Resilience Americas Department
** The Americas Operational Resilience Department enables the bank to effectively manage business threats and mitigate the risk of disruptions. The department ensures the readiness of each entity, as well as the ability to respond adequately to disruptive events, minimizing the impact on the delivery of services supporting the bank's critical operations.  The department addresses both Resilience Transformation and Resilience Operations.

The transformation aspect encompasses resilience strategy, program execution, and the development of new capabilities across the organization. Meanwhile, resilience operations provide visibility and readiness in day-to-day activities, including new product launches, continuity testing, and event and crisis management.  The functions performed span the different lines of business and corporate functions across the Americas region to mitigate risks and disruptions through an efficient and sustainable framework, effectively reducing risk and enabling Mizuho to meet growing business expectations and regulatory requirements.
As part of Mizuho Americas' ongoing efforts to build a more resilient organization, we are creating a new role to establish, lead, and mature the Integrated Testing function within Operational Resilience. The Integrated Testing function operates as a testing-as-a-service capability, delivering end-to-end testing across the full spectrum of operational resilience requirements, including regulatory expectations, disaster recovery exercises such as loss of data centers, and a broad range of exercises performed at the asset, application, process, and entity levels.

The Head of Integrated Testing will design and execute a unified testing strategy that validates the firm's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions to business operations. The mission is to validate that IT infrastructure, data, systems, and third-party services can be restored within the time frames required by critical business processes and services, including in back-up environments and during extended outages such as cyber events.  

This role enables the Operational Resilience reporting on real capabilities and will partnering with all the Operational Resilience pillars such as Business Continuity Management (BCM), Disaster Recovery (DR), Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), Cyber resilience, IT continuity, and the lines of business, with regular engagement with internal audit.  
** Key Responsibilities*
* ** Integrated Testing Leadership*
* • Define and lead the Integrated Testing strategy within the Operational Resilience program, covering capability, DR, third-party, data, and scenario-based exercises at the asset, application, and process levels.
• Design and operate a testing-as-a-service delivery model with clearly defined service level agreements, intake procedures, and engagement standards for stakeholders across the three lines of defense.
• Establish a multi-year testing roadmap aligned to the firm's critical operations, impact tolerances, and regulatory commitments, including extension of the DR test window over multiple consecutive days to demonstrate the firm's ability to withstand severe business disruptions and operate during extended outages such as cyber events.
• Provide testing services of the Operational Resilience functions to ensure data quality and controls effectiveness   
** Disaster Recovery and Scenario Testing*
* • Lead the DR Testing Program, including test strategy designed to address the threat landscape and critical third parties, stakeholder engagement, test planning (scope, objectives, success criteria, assumptions), test scripts (operational steps, expected and actual results), test day execution and coordination, and post-test reporting.
• Oversee data center loss exercises, failover and failback validation, cyber recovery exercises, and integrated cross-entity scenarios spanning Americas operations and relevant global affiliates.
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