Application Security Consultants - Application Security Testing
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Would you like to be part of a team of over 19,000 cybersecurity specialists worldwide? Accenture has an opportunity for you to join our Cybersecurity team.
An Application Security Testing analyzes a given situation to determine which security testing approaches are most likely to succeed, implement them and evaluate its effectiveness.
Also demonstrating the attacker mentality by discovering key information about a target, performing actions in a protected environment that a malicious person would perform and understand how evidence of the attack could be deleted.
As a member of the Security Team, the Application Security Testing Analyst will work in a collaborative environment where sharing skills and expertise is part of its DNA, cultivating a culture of security awareness to ensure security policies for applications, environments and systems are followed at all times.
Continuous learning is encouraged (and needed!) through our extensive training program, classroom/online courses from well-known providers and certifications.
Applicants must have Computer Science, Telecommunications or Engineering Degree or a related field, with experience in performing Application Security testing.
Selected candidates will take part in Application Security and other Security projects in global & leading companies operating different markets.
Responsibilities and recurring main tasks
- Help managing a group of people and projects.
- Definition, implementation and execution of security testing processes into software development life cycle.
- Validation of applications security architecture elements.
- Documentation of security requirements for applications (web, mobile, SOA, etc.) alignment with security testing processes.
- Obtain and validate measurement of KPI and KRI related to security in applications.
- Build PoC with clients to determine best security testing tools to be applied.
- Vulnerability lifecycle management on client environment.
- Collaborate with clients to define best approach to maximize the security posture.
Core Skills (“Must have”)
These are the main skills that an Application Security Tester should demonstrate and exercise on a daily basis in order to fulfill its responsibilities and recurring tasks:
- Experience in conducting security checks (static, software composition and dynamic code analysis, vulnerability analysis in applications and application penetration tests), analyzing test results, documenting risks and recommending countermeasures.
- Develop and document security evaluation test plan and procedures.
- Assist in researching, evaluating, and developing relevant Information Security policies and guidance.
- Actively participate in or lead technical exchange meetings and application review boards, documenting actions items/results of these events.
- Develop, assemble, and submit testing results reports that document testing activity and results to support the creation of risk assessments and approval packages.
- Assess/calculate risk based on threats, vulnerabilities, and shortfalls uncovered in testing.
- Experience in testing APIs security (also related with mobile applications).
- Security knowledge in web applications and common vulnerabilities.
- Knowledge of security in micro-services and Single Page Applications is valuable.
Valuable Skills (“Nice to have”)
Although not all of them are required, breadth and depth of the following skills are positive valued for an Application Security Tester role:
- Technology Ecosystems: General knowledge in at least one of the most enterprise-used programming languages as Java/C# .NET, C/C++, Javascript, PHP, Ruby/Perl/Python, Java Android/Kotlin, Objective-C/Swift, Powershell…
- Static Code Analysis Tools (SAST): Experience with at least one of the following static code analysis solutions: Checkmarx, Veracode, Kiuwan, Fortify, SourceClear, BlackDuck, Nexus, SonarQube…
- Software Composition Analysis Tools (SCA): Experience with at least one of the following software compositon analysis solutions as Dependency-Check, SourceClear and/or WhiteSource…
- Dynamic Application Analysis Tools (DAST): Experience with at least one of the following dynamic application analysis solutions: Burp Suite, Postman, MobSF, Qualys, Acunetix, Nessus, Webinspect…
- Authentication and authorization: Valuable Knowledge on SOA security and security focused on mobile applications (REST, JSON, OpenID, OAuth, WebToken, SSO).
- Security standards: Experience with OWASP Testing Guide, OWASP TOP 10 and knowledge of other well-known security standards of the industry: OWASP-M, SEI CERT-J, SEI CERT-C, PCI DSS…
- Application Security standards: Experience with OWASP TOP 10, OWASP ASVS, CWE, MITRE, CAPEC, SANS 25.
Valuable certifications
- CSSLP, OSCP, OSWE
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