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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Extensive experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM)Strong backend automation experience using Python and Pytest, with 5+ years leading automation projectsProven experience testing functions and decision logic defined as code, including policy-as-codeExperience validating event-driven platforms such as Pub/Sub, queues, Kafka, and batch processingExperience with identity warehousing and data ingestion protocols and formats including SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC, and CSVExperience with policy-based testing, including RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, and PBACExperience in consumer-driven contract testingExperience in risk-based test prioritisationDevOps and CI/CD integration experience, including integrating automation tests into GitHub and CI/CD pipelines and implementing shift-left testing practicesStrong experience in cloud testing approaches and methodology, especially GCP, with additional exposure to AWS, Azure, Entra, Ali Cloud, and systems such as ServiceNow, AD, and ADLDSExtensive experience using JIRA and ZephyrExperience executing defined test plans, including coordination, tracking, and reportingExcellent verbal and written communication skills, with proven stakeholder engagement at all levelsProven ability to lead and mentor engineers Responsibilities: We will define and own test architecture, strategy, and governance in a hands-on and strategic capacityWe will drive automation engineering and CI/CD integrationWe will lead test delivery, defect management, and stakeholder reportingWe will provide technical leadership and mentor engineers without line management responsibilities Technologies: APIAWSAzureBackendCI/CDCloudDevOpsGCPGitHubIAMJIRAKafkaLDAPPythonRESTRBACSecurityServiceNowpytestAIGitOpsIdentityIQSupportJMetern8nNeo4J More:
We are hiring a highly skilled Automation Test Lead for a 6-month extendable contract in Sheffield with a hybrid working model requiring 3 days onsite. This role offers up to £450 per day inside IR35. You will work closely with tech leads, Cloud Security, DevOps, and Application Engineering teams to test secure, scalable workload identities and access workflows across Google Cloud Platform. The role focuses on an automation-first approach to supporting enterprise-level cloud and identity operations, with exposure to IAM, identity orchestration, API testing, data ingestion and transformation, and event-driven Pub/Sub architectures.
last updated 32 week of 2026