Job Summary

We are seeking talented and motivated individuals for the role of Senior Manager / Lead Penetration Testing. Provide deep, hands-on penetration testing expertise for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), blockchain, smart contract and API-based solutions. The role independently identifies exploitable security weaknesses, translates technical findings into business risk, and works closely with developers, architects, platform teams and security stakeholders to remediate issues. The role also brings current cyber-security and blockchain industry insight, uses AI-assisted security testing responsibly, applies extensive Java engineering skills to build security and QA automation frameworks, helps QA teams accelerate maintainable test automation, and includes the wider team in technical decisions through evidence-based recommendations and recognised best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and Technical Leadership

• Act as a senior individual contributor and subject-matter expert for penetration testing across smart contracts, APIs, web applications,



blockchain platforms and supporting infrastructure.
• Define risk-based penetration-test approaches covering black-box, grey-box and authenticated testing, aligned to system criticality, threat models and regulatory expectations.
• Maintain deep awareness of emerging cyber threats, blockchain vulnerabilities, attack techniques, defensive controls and relevant industry developments.
• Assess recent tools and testing techniques, including AI-assisted approaches, and recommend adoption based on effectiveness, safety, explainability and control requirements.
• Bring engineers, security specialists and relevant team members into technical decisions, clearly presenting options, evidence, trade-offs and recommended practices.

Security Testing and Assurance

• Plan and execute end-to-end penetration testing of smart contracts, REST and event-driven APIs, web services, microservices, blockchain nodes, wallets, key-m

📌 Lead, Penetration Testing (Bengaluru)
🏢 Standard Chartered India
📍 Bengaluru