IAM – Automation Test Engineer

Job Title

Automation Test Engineer – IAM

Employment

Contract – Inside IR35

Location

Sheffield, UK – Hybrid 3 days onsite a week

Eligibility

UK candidates only with valid work permit.

Requirements

• 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
• GraphDB or NoSQL DB testing
• Neo4j basics; Cypher queries for assertions; graph data validation
• GDBMS performance analysis
• Reporting query validation
• 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
• Performance testing awareness/exposure
• Licensing/config/dashboard ownership
• JMeter/Gatling/NeoLoad experience
• Data ingestion protocols and formats/protocols awareness
• Identity warehousing exposure
• SCIM/LDAP/OIDC/CSV exposure

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