Company: YOUGotaGift Pvt Ltd
Location: Kochi/Calicut
Job Title: Junior Security Test Engineer
Experience: 0–2 years
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Details
Junior security testing role focused on building practical offensive-security and application-security skills through VAPT assessments of web applications, APIs, mobile applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, IT, or a related field is preferred
- Fresh graduates with strong practical cybersecurity knowledge and demonstrable hands-on skills may also be considered
- Certifications are optional
Skills
- Cybersecurity fundamentals
- Networking fundamentals
- Web application security
- Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)
- API security testing
- Mobile application security testing
- OWASP Top 10
- OWASP API Security
- HTTP/HTTPS
- Linux
- Burp Suite
- OWASP ZAP
- Nmap
- Nuclei
- Nessus
- OpenVAS
- SQLmap
- Postman
- Wireshark
- MobSF
Responsibilities
- Assist with web application penetration testing and identify potential attack surfaces
- Perform manual testing for common vulnerabilities, including XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, IDOR/BOLA, authentication, authorization, session-management, file-upload, path-traversal, open-redirect, CORS, rate-limit, and security-configuration issues
- Assist with REST and GraphQL API security assessments using tools such as Burp Suite and Postman
- Assist with Android and iOS application security testing
- Perform vulnerability scanning, analyze results, identify false positives, and manually validate vulnerabilities
- Maintain testing notes and evidence and assist with preparing VAPT reports
- Document vulnerabilities, affected components, reproduction steps, proof of concept, impact, and remediation recommendations
- Retest vulnerabilities following remediation and continuously develop practical security-testing skills
Salary: Not specified
Application Deadline: 22 Oct 2026
How to Apply
Apply through the official listing
Email: techcareers@yougotagift.com
Contact: Not specified
Source: Infopark Kerala
Junior role; VAPT; Application security; Offensive security; Web security; API security; Mobile security; Cloud security
Kochi/Calicut
Kerala
