Senior Penetration Tester
HCL Software | Office of the CISO
Location: India - Bangalore / Noida / Remote
Type: Full time
About the Role
HCL Software is seeking a Senior Penetration Tester to perform Continuous Threat Exposure
Management (CTEM) and offensive security testing across our products and infrastructure. This
role focuses on continuous attack surface discovery, attack path analysis, and risk-based
prioritization to identify and remediate weaknesses across our application, cloud, and identity attack
surface before they can be exploited.

We are looking for a tester who produces findings engineering teams can actually act on, and who
cares about whether issues get fixed rather than only whether they get reported.
You will work with Product Security, PSIRT, Security Operations, and engineering teams, and your
findings will feed directly into remediation roadmaps and customer-facing assurance.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute penetration tests across web and thick-client applications, APIs, cloud
environments, internal networks, and identity infrastructure.




• Perform deep manual testing that goes well beyond automated tooling, including business logic
abuse, authorization flaws, and chained exploitation.
• Develop custom tooling, scripts, and proof-of-concept exploits where off-the-shelf tooling is
insufficient.
• Define scope, rules of engagement, and safety controls, and operate within them rigorously.
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) & Attack Path Analysis

Offensive Testing & Execution

• Lead continuous attack surface discovery across cloud, on-prem, identity, and application
environments to identify exposed assets and security misconfigurations.
• Perform attack path analysis to map potential exploitation chains across AWS, Azure, GCP,
and hybrid environments, evaluating identity-based lateral movement and privilege escalation
risks.
• Prioritize discovered exposures based on business impact, asset criticality, threat intelligence,
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