IAM - Lead Automation Test Architect

Role: IAM - Lead Automation Test Architect

Employment:
Contract - Inside IR35

Location:

Sheffield, UK - Hybrid

• Extensive experience within Identity and Access Management
• Solid experience of at least 5 years in a lead automation role, skilled in creating frameworks with strong coding experience e.g Java, Playwright, Python, Typescript, Cypher, Scala and API tooling (such as Insomnia, Apidog or Postman)
• Deep IAM domain knowledge
• Testing functions and decision points “As Code”, such as Policy as code
• Graph and event-driven validation
• Automation-first test experience
• Layered test architecture
• Risk-based test prioritisation
• RBAC / ABAC / ReBAC / PBAC
• OPA / Rego policy testing
• Policy explainability validation
• REST API automation, API Gateway testing, Batch ETL testing
• Consumer-driven contract testing
• Idempotency testing
• Replay and reprocessing testing
• Graph data validation (Neo4j)
• Containerised test execution
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and stakeholder engagement at all levels
• Experience of using a range of automation tools and experience of test tool selection/recommendations based on assessment of the environment/landscape.
• Experience in creating an overall test strategy that fully defines the approach, environment, scope, risks and resources required.
• Experience of delivering within an Agile methodology.
• Cloud testing approaches and methodology, especially GCP, but also AWS, Azure, Entra, Ali Cloud and other systems such as Service Now, AD, ADLDS
• Some knowledge of JMeter, Gatling, Load Runner, Neo Load or similar tools for load, stress, and volume testing including any licensing requirements, configuration, dashboards and reporting
• Experience of testing graph database management systems (GDBMS) Graph platform engineering, Neo4j Basics
• GDBMS Performance Analysis
• Extensive experience using JIRA and Xephyr tooling
• Good experience of executing defined test plans including coordination, tracking and reporting
• Positive team player working as part of the overall test team,
• Any exposure to SailPoint Identity
  
  IQ, Identity warehousing, and working with protocols and formats for data ingestion such as SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC and CSV
• Team Leadership & Management - Proven ability to lead, mentor, and manage other engineers within the team
• Dev Ops & CI/CD Integration - Experience of Git Ops Repos. Ability to integrate automation tests into Git Lab CI/CD pipelines and implement shift-left testing practices
• Pub Sub and MQ