Job Description

What You'll Do:

Strategy & Operations

- Define and execute the enterprise penetration testing strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and security risks.
- Oversee testing engagements, methodologies, quality assurance, reporting, and delivery.
- Manage team capacity, resources, third-party providers, KPIs, and KRIs.
- Drive AI-first transformation, automation, and operational efficiency.

Technical Leadership

- Provide technical oversight across application, API, cloud, network, mobile, infrastructure, and AI security testing.
- Ensure testing aligns with industry standards, frameworks, and best practices.
- Review and approve findings, risk ratings, and remediation recommendations.

People Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of penetration testers and security engineers.
- Manage recruitment, performance, capability development, career progression, and succession planning.




- Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

Risk, Governance & Stakeholder Management

- Translate technical findings into business risks and actionable recommendations.
- Deliver executive reporting on testing coverage, security risks, emerging threats, and remediation progress.
- Support audit, compliance, regulatory requirements, and strategic security initiatives.
- Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

- Enhance testing effectiveness, coverage, scalability, and operational maturity.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging security testing tools, techniques, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Standardise methodologies, playbooks, reporting, and knowledge-sharing practices.

📌 Application Security Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Experian
📍 Hyderabad