Penetration Tester

Skills

Description

Demonstrated ability to
Adhere to the highest standards of honesty and scientific and business integrity.
Think critically about complex problems and situations.
Consider emerging web-based vulnerabilities and threats from within the context of organizational risk and business impact(s).
Develop novel attack vectors based on newly discovered vulnerabilities

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments of web applications, mobile applications, databases, client-side applications and tools, and APIs.
• Execute manual and automated code analysis to assess the quality and security of source code.
• Perform pre-assessment research and preparation including reconnaissance, documentation and configuration review, and customer interviews.
• Develop custom tools and exploits.
• Analyze security findings, including risk analysis and root cause analysis.
• Generate comprehensive reports, including detailed findings, exploitation procedures, and mitigations.
• Develop and deliver walkthrough(s), proof(s) of concept (PoCs), articles, and formal presentations.
• Execute verification and validation testing for customer mitigations and fixes

Educational Requirements

• Experience in performing penetration testing on enterprise web applications, microservice and mobile applications.
• Familiarity with common web vulnerabilities including: XSS, XXE, SQL Injection, Deserialization Attacks, File Inclusion/Path Traversal Attacks, Server-side Request Forgery, Remote Execution Flaws, Server Configuration Flaws and Authentication Flaws.
• Experience in testing web-based APIs (i.e. REST, SOAP, XML, JSON).
• Experience in designing and documenting pragmatic remediation guidance for discovered vulnerabilities.
• Experience developing actionable intelligence based on open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering.
• Experience with 1 or more scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Perl, PowerShell, etc.
• Solid understanding of OWASP testing methodology.
• Familiarity with front-end web application frameworks (i.e. AngularJS, Bootstrap, etc).
• 3+ years of experience using Burp Suite Pro or equivalent application (e.g. ZAP).