Senior Penetration Tester

Organization : At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title : Senior Penetration Tester

Location : Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team : The Cyber Security Team protects the bank and our customers from theft, losses and risk events through effective and proactive management of cyber security, privacy and operational risk.

The Security Testing Centre of Excellence (COE) conducts simulated cyber-attacks to ensure systems are safe, sound, and secure by performing security assessments of the Group’s technology. This ensures our applications and infrastructure are adequately robust to resist cyber-attacks. Our work seeks to identify security weaknesses using real-world attack scenarios and provide recommendations to assist remediation efforts.

Impact &contribution :

You will lead and perform technical penetration testing activities designed to ensure the bank maintains its risk and security posture at desired levels. You will communicate security issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and provide subject-matter expertise across business units. You will mentor junior team members and contribute to the development of innovative solutions to complex technical challenges. This role reports directly to a Centre within the Penetration Testing team.

Roles & responsibilities :

• Lead and conduct security assessments including (but not limited to) web applications, infrastructure, networks, cloud (especially AWS), SaaS, LLM, and mobile applications
• Coordinate small squads of testers in delivering a large programme of testing engagements, using agile methodologies to track progress, and to resolve blockers.
• Carry out scoping and planning activities to determine components to be tested, approach, methodologies, and appropriate levels of test rigour
• Create comprehensive exploitation strategies that identify exploitable technical or operational vulnerabilities to demonstrate business impact and articulate risk.
• Report results of testing and their implications to stakeholders including suppliers, project owners, product crews, and leadership
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior staff
• Maintain awareness of advancements in attack techniques, hardware, software, and other technologies and their implications. Develop new testing methodologies and techniques, contributing to the penetration testing craft across the CoE.
• Ensure all tasks align with internal policies and external regulatory requirements

Essential skills :

Education Qualification : Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science / Information Technology.

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