Job description
Some careers shine brighter than others.
If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Penetration Testing Specialist / Consultant Specialist.
In this role, you will:
Perform highly technical/analytical security assessments of custom mobile applications, widely understand infrastructure and networks, web services and APIs. This covers manual penetration testing.
Clearly and professionally document root cause and risk analysis of all findings
Adhere to the security testing process and raise any gaps or opportunities for improvement with manager.
Work closely with the DevOps teams to ensure that the security testing requirements are met and help automate repetitive tasks.
Develop understanding of business functionality and apply testing methodology as appropriate to technologies and risks
Demonstrate complex proof-of-concept exploits of vulnerabilities when required.
Assist with coordination of security testing projects according to a structured process, including writing test plans, test cases and test reports.
Advise on vulnerability remediation, control implementation and secure development practices
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements.
Ability to develop clear business impact and justification to drive investment in team capabilities
Demonstrable experience in vulnerability identification and exploitation.
Participation in the Cyber Security industry.
Demonstrated experience in network security.
Experience in analysis of mobile technologies.
Understanding of analysis of common operating system, such as Linux, Windows
Understanding in software development.
Experience in tooling, automation and prototyping.
Experience in source code review.
Demonstrated experience in penetration testing.
Coding in preferred scripting languages like Python, Perl, Javascript etc.
Understand the business context/significance of technical penetration testing findings.
Consistently output superior quality of deliverables.
Contributes to individual and team on-going development.
Ability to manage stakeholders
English - Fluent written and spoken
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India