Job Description
Role: Automation Test Engineer - IAM
Employment: Contract - Inside IR35
Location: Sheffield,UK - Hybrid 3days onsite a week
NOTE: Looking for candidates from UK only with valid work permit.
Skills:
Area
Must
Should
Nice
Coding & automation
Strong Python coding & PyTest automation experience to build reusable test utilities
Playwright exposure
Typescript
API testing
REST API automation; API tooling ( Insomnia/Apidog/Postman); API Gateway testing
Batch ETL testing
Advanced schema/property-based testing
Event-driven testing
Pub/Sub and MQ concepts; replay/reprocessing; idempotency-style validation
Async failure handling patterns
Ordering/duplication/retry deep-dive suites
Graph validation
Any GraphDB testing or extensive testing of NoSQL DB
Neo4j basics; Cypher queries for assertions; graph data validation.
GDBMS performance analysis
Reporting query validation
IAM domain
IAM concepts (auth/access); RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC/PBAC
Identity lifecycle (Joiner/Mover/Leaver); human vs non-human identities
Federation concepts
Policy-as-code
Testing decision points “as code”
OPA/Rego policy testing; policy explainability validation
Policy drift detection automation
CI/CD & DevOps
Jenkins pipeline creation/management; shift-left mindset
GitOps repo experience; GitLab CI/CD integration
Containerised test execution patterns
Observability & reporting
Log/metric/trace validation in tests
Signal-based failure detection automation
Allure reporting; Grafana dashboard awareness
Test governance
FR/NFR traceability; entry/exit criteria; test case review for coverage
Risk-based prioritisation; layered test architecture
Cross-team RACI enforcement
Tools & ways of working
JIRA
Test tool selection/recommendations
Advanced test data factories
zephyr defect reporting and triage
Test tool selection/recommendations
Performance testing
Awareness/exposure
Licensing/config/dashboard ownership
JMeter/ Gatling/ NeoLoad experience
Data ingestion protocols
Awareness of formats/protocols
Identity warehousing exposure
SCIM/LDAP/OIDC/CSV exposure
