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Role : Security Testing Engineer

Location : Seattle WA (Hybrid Remote - 3 days in office)

Term : 12 Month Contract (possible extension)

Compensation : Negotiable (Must be W2 - Cannot work Corp to Corp)

Summary :

An Authentication team is looking for a Security Testing Engineer. The team handles user identification and authentication across the channels for Consumer and GWIM customers.

As a Security Engineer/Tester, you will be performing authorized security testing on some of the very complex, massive scale, and highly critical applications. You must be self-directed, able to work independently, as well as work in a team-oriented and fast paced environment. You need to be aware of a varied application security domains like authentication, authorization, identity management, cryptography, etc. As part of a shift left focus, you will be working part of the development team along with developers to proactively identify any security vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25, CWE) at the earliest before they are discovered late in cycle by InfoSec teams or in production. You will be working as a liaison between the Infosec team and development teams, understanding the security issues reported by central InfoSec teams to development teams to help them understand and fix them. You require very good communication and presentation skills to be able to present your findings to Leadership/Management/Development teams to help them understand the Risk so that they can take informed decisions on mitigations, controls and residual risk. You need to be highly passionate in following the constantly changing threat landscape and familiarize with latest security vulnerabilities that impacts the team.

The ideal candidate is a team player, self-starter and quick learner with 3+ year of experience in software development/testing with large-scale enterprise applications. The working experience requirement can be relaxed if the candidate has right skillset and has the capability to learn quickly. When submitting a candidate under this consideration, please highlight examples of quick learning on the resume. Offer rate may be affected by level of experience.

Qualifications :

Primary Skill – Manual and automated testing (testing will be done on software)

• Deep understanding of different web application technologies, web protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, etc.), browser technologies, etc.

• In depth domain understanding of application security in terms of Identity and Access Management (IAM), different authentication technologies (passwords, biometrics, OTP, digital certificates & PKI, device authentication, FIDO U2F/Passkeys, etc.

• Proven expertise on different security testing tools (Proxy tools like Fiddler, Black box security testing tools like Burp, Static Security Code analysis tools,

• Deep understanding of different application security vulnerabilities such as OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25, CWE, attack patterns (CAPEC), etc.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• Must be self-directed, able to work independently, as well as work in a team-oriented and fast paced environment

Desired Skills

• Working experience on different security technologies and standards like Single Sign On (SSO) using SAML/OpenID, OAuth protocols, etc.

• Good understanding of Cryptographic algorithms and standards like Symmetric/Assymetric crypto techniques, digital signatures, JWS/JWE tokens, Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), etc.

• Understanding of Security vulnerabilities related to Cloud environments is an added advantage.

• Well known Security certifications is an added advantage

• Understanding of Threat Modelling concepts and Secure Development Life Cycle processes.

• Mobile Application Security familiarity is desirable.

ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.