VAPT Security Engineer

Zohorecruit; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking a Penetration Testing Senior Consultant in a hybrid setup for long-term engagements in India. You will lead offensive security engagements across apps, APIs, mobile, cloud, and enterprise infra, translating findings into actionable risk and remediation recommendations.

The role demands 7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, deep OWASP knowledge, and strong reporting skills. Responsibilities include designing test plans, performing manual and automated assessments,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience in penetration testing or related security roles.
• Experience across web, APIs, mobile, thick-client, networks, cloud, and enterprise infra.
• Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and practical vulnerability exploitation.
• Hands-on with manual testing plus automated tooling for efficient assessments.
• Proficiency with Burp Suite and a suite of security testing tools.
• Experience with secure code reviews and threat modeling.
• Ability to translate findings into business risk and remediation plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead penetration testing workstreams across web, APIs, mobile, and cloud environments.
• Design test plans and perform manual and automated security assessments.
• Identify, validate, exploit, and document vulnerabilities with remediation guidance.
• Conduct secure code reviews and threat modeling.
• Prepare detailed reports and executive summaries for clients.
• Mentor junior team members and support engagement planning.

Skills

Penetration testing

OWASP Top 10

Manual testing

Automated security testing

Burp Suite

Nmap

Metasploit

Python

PowerShell

Threat modeling

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

Security reporting

Reverse engineering basics

Documentation

Team mentoring

Tools

Burp Suite

Fiddler

Wireshark

Nmap

Metasploit

Nessus

Qualys

Tenable

Veracode

Frida

Apktool

JADX

dnSpy

IDA Pro

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Role: Penetration Testing Senior Consultant

Work Mode: Hybrid

Type: Contract to Hire

Notice Period:Immediate Joiners

Requirements

As a Penetration Testing Senior Consultant , you will lead the execution of offensive security engagements and help clients identify, validate, and remediate security vulnerabilities across their digital ecosystem.

You will work across application, API, mobile, thick-client, network, cloud, and enterprise infrastructure environments while collaborating with technical and business stakeholders to translate security findings into actionable business risk and remediation recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead penetration testing workstreams across web applications, APIs, mobile, thick-client, network, cloud, and infrastructure environments .
  
• Design test plans and execute manual and automated security assessments .
  
• Identify, validate, exploit, and document security vulnerabilities.
  
• Perform manual testing for vulnerabilities including:
  • SQL Injection / Blind SQL Injection
    
  • XSS and CSRF
    
  • XXE
    
  • SSRF
    
  • Insecure Deserialization
    
  • HTTP Request Smuggling
    
  • Authentication & Authorization weaknesses
    
  • Business Logic vulnerabilities
    
• Assess OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, session management, identity, and access controls .
  
• Conduct secure code reviews using OWASP Secure Coding Practices or comparable methodologies.
  
• Perform application security architecture reviews and threat modeling .
  
• Conduct vulnerability assessments across application, infrastructure, cloud, mobile, and enterprise environments.
  
• Use industry-standard security testing tools such as Burp Suite, Fiddler, Wireshark, Nmap, Metasploit, Nessus, Qualys, Tenable, Veracode, Frida, Apktool, JADX, dnSpy, and IDA Pro .
  
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies to improve reconnaissance, testing, evidence collection, and reporting.
  
• Support purple team, red team, adversarial simulation, and threat-informed testing activities.
  
• Map attack scenarios and findings to MITRE ATT&CK and relevant threat behaviors.
  
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, cloud, development, and security operations teams for remediation and retesting.
  
• Prepare detailed technical reports, executive summaries, risk-based findings, remediation recommendations, and client presentations.
  
• Translate technical vulnerabilities into business-relevant risk statements and prioritized remediation plans.
  
• Support engagement planning, estimation, proposal development, solution development, and identification of follow-on opportunities.
  
• Mentor junior team members and review technical deliverables.
  
• Provide technical and professional feedback to team members.
  
• Prepare daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual status reports and remediation tracking materials.
  
• Respond to ad-hoc research, reporting, and technical requests from management and clients.
  
• Adhere to internal security requirements and Deloitte policies.
  

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience in penetration testing, application security, cyber risk, vulnerability assessment, or related technical security roles.
  
• Proven experience conducting penetration testing across multiple domains:
  • Web Applications
    
  • APIs
    
  • Mobile Applications
    
  • Thick-Client Applications
    
  • Networks
    
  • Cloud
    
  • Enterprise Infrastructure
    
• Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and application security vulnerabilities.
  
• Strong hands-on experience with manual vulnerability assessment and exploitation.
  
• Strong understanding of:
  • OAuth 2.0
    
  • OpenID Connect
    
  • Identity Management
    
  • Session Management
    
  • Access Control
    
• Experience with secure code reviews .
  
• Strong hands-on experience with manual penetration testing combined with automated security tools.
  

Proficiency with tools such as:

Burp Suite, Fiddler, Wireshark, Nmap, Metasploit, Nessus, Qualys, Tenable, Veracode, Frida, Apktool, JADX, dnSpy, IDA Pro or equivalent.

• Strong understanding of web application architecture, including frontend, backend, databases, APIs, application servers, and middleware .
  
• Experience with application security architecture assessment and threat modeling.
  
• Understanding of basic reverse engineering and memory analysis concepts.
  
• Strong understanding of networking protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SMB, and LDAP .
  
• Familiarity with CVE and CVSS .
  
• Excellent technical documentation and report-writing skills.
  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.
  

At least one relevant cybersecurity certification such as:

OSCP, OSWP, GPEN, GWAPT, BSCP, OSWE, CISSP, or CREST certification.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Application, infrastructure, cloud, mobile, and microservices security assessment experience.
  
• Experience testing AI-enabled applications, LLM integrations, APIs, AI agents, or related systems .
  
• Red Team, Purple Team, breach attack simulation, or adversary emulation experience.
  
• Knowledge of:
  • MITRE ATT&CK
    
  • Cyber Kill Chain
    
  • SANS Top 25
    
  • Threat-informed penetration testing
    
• Experience with offensive security tools such as Cobalt Strike, Sliver, BloodHound, Empire, Metasploit, Nmap, Qualys, and Tenable .
  
• Knowledge of Active Directory security, privilege escalation, lateral movement, identity attacks, and enterprise misconfigurations .
  
• Experience assessing AWS, Azure, or GCP environments, including IAM, storage, compute, networking, containers, and Kubernetes.
  
• Familiarity with security monitoring platforms such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Carbon Black, Splunk, QRadar, and ArcSight .
  
• Working knowledge of malware analysis, reverse engineering, binary analysis, exploit development, or memory analysis .
  
• Security automation and scripting experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages .
  
• Ability to translate threat intelligence into realistic and controlled attack scenarios.
  
• Experience presenting security findings to both technical and executive audiences.
  
• Security research, publications, blogs, open-source projects, conference presentations, or CVEs.
  
• Preferred certifications: OSWE, OSEP, OSED, OSCE3, CRTO, GXPN, OSEE, AWS Security Specialty, SABSA, or CREST offensive security certifications .
  
• Familiarity with NIST, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR , and other relevant cybersecurity/privacy standards.
  
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
  
• Strong interest in continuous learning and developing new offensive security techniques.