Automation Test Lead in Sheffield

Experience 5 Plus Years Leading Automation Testing Projects with strong IAM Testing experience

Role Summary

• We are looking for a highly skilled Automation Test Lead with strong expertise in Identity and Access management IAM skilled in identity orchestration API testing data ingestion and transformation and eventdriven PubSub architectures


• This role focuses on testing secure scalable workload identities and access workflows across Google Cloud Platform integrating identity services with custom APIs PubSub pipelines and cloudnative applications


• Using an automation first approach you will collaborate closely with tech leads Cloud Security DevOps and Application Engineering teams to thoroughly test robust IAM identity lifecycle workflows and secure service integrations that support enterpriselevel cloud and Identity operations

Key Responsibilities

• Test Architecture Strategy and Governance Handson Strategic


• Define and maintain an overall test strategy that describes the approach environment scope risks and required resources


• Establish test strategies that cover deterministic and nondeterministic AI behaviours


• Define and maintain test entry and exit criteria


• Perform test case reviewsQA to ensure coverage and traceability to requirementsdesign


• Establish automation testing standards best practices and governance frameworks across the organisation


• Liaise with business areas and technical leads on scenario definition across SITOATUAT and the wider testing lifecycle as required


• Generate regulatory evidence as needed


• Automation Engineering and CICD


• Plan develop execute maintain and continuously improve automated test frameworks and automated test scripts for IAM applications


• Build automation frameworks that integrate AI capabilities for test generation analysis failure triage selfhealing and intelligent reporting supporting capability


• Validate AI workflows orchestration engines and eventdriven systems PubSub queues etc


• Create and manage CICD pipelines to run automated tests generate reports and notify teams of test results


• Test and validate functions and decision logic defined as code including policyascode


• Generate synthetic and anonymised test data


• Test Delivery Defects and Stakeholder Management


• Develop and execute test plans test cases test data test scenarios and associated testing documentation aligned to requirements and technical specifications


• Report and track defects and issues by writing or automating clear and thorough bug reports attend triage meetings and verify fixes


• Identify process and application issues and provide suggestions for improvement


• Communicate progress regularly to senior stakeholders and programme leads tailoring the level of detail to the audience


• Technical Leadership Nonline management


• Provide technical leadership by leading and mentoring engineers within the team


• Collaborate effectively within the wider test team


• Ability to continuously learn and adapt to new technologiestools eg AI tools and agentic AI


• Deliver within an Agile methodology

Required Skills

• Extensive experience in Identity and Access Management IAM


• Strong backend automation experience using Python and Pytest with 5 years leading automation projects


• Proven experience testing functions and decision logic defined as code including policyascode


• Experience validating eventdriven platforms PubSub queues Kafka etc and batch processing


• Experience with identity warehousing and protocolsformats for data ingestion including SCIM REST API LDAP OIDC and CSV


• Experience with policybased testing RBAC ABAC ReBAC PBAC


• Experience in consumerdriven contract testing


• Experience in riskbased test prioritisation


• DevOps CICD integration experience including integrating automation tests into GitHub and CICD pipelines and implementing shiftleft testing practices


• Strong experience in cloud testing approaches and methodology especially GCP additional exposure to AWS Azure Entra Ali Cloud and systems such as ServiceNow AD and ADLDS


• Extensive experience using JIRA and Zephyr mandatory


• Experience executing defined test plans including coordination tracking and reporting


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with proven stakeholder engagement at all levels


• Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers technical leadership

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of AI governance model evaluation explainability and responsible AI principles


• Exposure to orchestration tools like n8n


• Exposure to GenAI tool integrations into Quality Engineering


• Experience testing solutions built on GraphDB Neo4j


• Exposure to containerised test execution


• Knowledge of JMeter Gatling

Skills

Mandatory Skills : PyTest-Automation, Python Data Automation Testing