Lead Quality Engineer

LOCATION(S):
Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh

HOURS: Full‑time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

This role requires existing, hands‑on familiarity with SailPoint IAM and automation‑led quality engineering. For this role we need a strong candidate who will be able to hit the ground running, taking over immediate Lead Testing duties to enable us to complete our overall end of year goals.

You will play a key role in ensuring Cloud IAM products are fit for purpose, compliant, and ready for use, supporting the organisation’s move towards cloud‑first identity and access services.

This role is for the Lead Quality Engineer within the Chief Security Office (CSO) IAM Lab, specialising in SailPoint’s identity protection platform and SailPoint Identity IQ (IIQ). This role involves moving between the two products as the change happens. This role focuses on providing quality engineering that prioritises automation for security‑critical identity platforms, ensuring systems are resilient, scalable and production‑ready.

The role is initially hands‑on with ownership of automation frameworks, test strategy, and platform assurance, transitioning into broader leadership and capability ownership across IAM Quality Engineering.

• Compose, build and manage automation frameworks for SailPoint IAM platforms
• Own and continuously enhance regression test suites and platform health checks
• Define and implement automation‑first quality engineering strategy within IAM
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure deployment readiness
• Own non‑functional validation strategy to ensure platform resilience and performance
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver secure, high‑quality IAM solutions
• Mentor and lead Quality Engineers with progression toward capability leadership

Programming:
Java (crucial) and Python, with strong experience in automation development

Automation Tools:
Selenium, Playwright or equivalent

CI/CD:
Jenkins or equivalent pipeline tooling

API Testing: REST API validation and automation

Version Control & Delivery:
Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence

Hands‑on delivery experience in SailPoint IAM (Identity IQ and/or Identity Security Cloud), including implementation and operational contexts

Strong experience working within enterprise IAM / IGA platforms

Proven responsibility for automation frameworks and regression test packs (build, develop and ongoing maintenance)

Strong programming capability in Java (primary) alongside experience in Python and automation frameworks

Experience embedding automated testing in CI/CD processes, advancing to CD pipelines to ensure auditability

Experience leading or mentoring Quality Engineering teams, with clear ownership of delivery outcomes

Experience delivering non‑functional testing (performance, resilience, scalability) within IAM platforms

Experience with Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)

Exposure to cloud IAM environments (Azure, GCP) – particularly in the context of SailPoint connectors and aggregation

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.