IAM – Automation Test Engineer

Role: Automation Test Engineer – IAM

Employment: Contract – Inside IR35

Location: Sheffield, UK – Hybrid 3 days onsite a week

NOTE: Looking for candidates from UK only with valid work permit.

Skills

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

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