Systems/Application Security Analyst, Sr. Salary in Takoma Park, MD

Demanded Skills for the Role:

• Initiative (Mentioned in 6.71% Job Postings): Taking decisive action and initiating plans independently to address problems, improve professional life, and achieve goals.
• Product Testing (Mentioned in 4.33% Job Postings): Product testing, also called consumer testing or comparative testing, is a process of measuring the properties or performance of products. The theory is that since the advent of mass production manufacturers produce branded products which they assert and advertise to be identical within some technical standard.[citation needed] Product testing seeks to ensure that consumers can understand what products will do for them and which products are the best value. Product testing is a strategy to increase consumer protection by checking the claims made during marketing strategies such as advertising, which by their nature are in the interest of the entity distributing the service and not necessarily in the interest of the consumer. The advent of product testing was the beginning of the modern consumer movement. Product testing might be accomplished by a manufacturer, an independent laboratory, a government agency, etc. Often an existing formal test method is used as a basis for testing. Other times engineers develop methods of test which are suited to the specific purpose. Comparative testing subjects several replicate samples of similar products to identical test conditions.
• Production Support (Mentioned in 3.03% Job Postings): Production support covers the practices and disciplines of supporting the IT systems/applications which are currently being used by the end users. A production support person/team is responsible for receiving incidents and requests from end-users, analyzing these and either responding to the end user with a solution or escalating it to the other IT teams. These teams may include developers, system engineers and database administrators.

Mastering certain specialized skills can lead to a significant increase in pay. Here are examples of skills and the potential impact they can have on a Systems/Application Security Analyst, Sr.'s salary.

• Production Support: Can increase your salary by up to 5%.
• Program Management: Can increase your salary by up to 5%.
• Attention to Detail: Can increase your salary by up to 4%.