Job Description

The Role: Automation Test Lead – IAM Experience

Location: Sheffield, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: Hybrid – 2 - 3 Days Onsite

Job Description:

Required Skills:

* Extensive experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM).

* Strong backend automation experience using Python and Pytest, with 5+ years leading automation projects.

* Proven experience testing functions and decision logic defined “as code”, including policy-as-code.

* Experience validating event-driven platforms (Pub/Sub, queues, Kafka, etc.) and batch processing.

* Experience with identity warehousing and protocols/formats for data ingestion including SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC, and CSV.

* Experience with policy-based testing (RBAC / ABAC / ReBAC / PBAC).

* Experience in consumer-driven contract testing.

* Experience in risk-based test prioritisation.

* DevOps & CI/CD integration experience, including integrating automation tests into GitHub and CI/CD pipelines and implementing shift-left testing practices.

* Strong experience in cloud testing approaches and methodology, especially GCP; additional exposure to AWS, Azure, Entra, Ali Cloud, and systems such as ServiceNow, AD, and ADLDS.

* Extensive experience using JIRA and Zephyr (mandatory).

* Experience executing defined test plans including coordination, tracking, and reporting.

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with proven stakeholder engagement at all levels.

* Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers (technical leadership).

Desired Skills:

* Knowledge of AI governance, model evaluation, explainability, and responsible AI principles.

* Exposure to orchestration tools like n8n.

* Exposure to GenAI tool integrations into Quality Engineering.

* Experience testing solutions built on GraphDB (Neo4j).

* Experience testing OPA / Rego policies.

* Exposure to containerised test execution.

* Knowledge of JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, NeoLoad (or similar) for load/stress/volume testing, including licensing requirements, configuration, dashboards, and reporting.

* GDBMS performance analysis.

* Exposure to SailPoint IdentityIQ.

* Exposure to GitOps repos.

* Exposure to testing HashiCorp Vault solutions.

* Experience in testing SPIFFE/SPIRE.

* Exposure to testing session management services.

* Experience testing governance and auditing controls