Details:
- Salary: £525 - 550 - Day
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: South Yorkshire
- Date: 19 hours ago
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