What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Penetration Testing (vulnerability assessment) - Jersey City, NJ (HYBRID) position at HPTech Inc.?
Job Details
Role: Application Penetration Testing
Location: Jersey City, NJ (HYBRID)
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Interview Process: 2 Rounds
Job Summary:
- 8 years of working experience and strong understanding of application vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
- Working experience and good hands-on understanding of manual penetration testing and updated with latest tactics, techniques and procedures for complex applications/ APIs
- Proficiency with vulnerability assessment & penetration testing tools (Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, and other commercial and open-source tools)
- Strong expertise in planning and create penetration testing methods, scripts and test cases
- Good Understanding of IT security policy, procedure, design, and implementation
- Ability to analyze and investigate security-related vulnerabilities and identify false positives
- Strong understanding of architecture diagrams and evaluating complex applications/ APIs
- Strong information security threat and risk-based prioritization and triaging abilities
- Solid foundation of common software vulnerabilities and their remediation/ mitigation techniques
- Working knowledge of regulatory and industry security standards (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, NIST, DORA and GLBA)
- Working knowledge of penetration testing using industry best practices such as OWASP top 10, CWE/ SANS TOP 25 standards and Threat-Led Penetration Testing (TLPT)
- Proficiency with documenting and reporting security issues and vulnerabilities, providing recommendations for remediation and demonstrating/ explaining to a wide audience
- Relevant certifications (e.g., OSCP, CEH, CISSP) are a plus
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