Vallum Associates
Automation Test Lead – IAM Experience
Sheffield
Posted about 24 hours ago
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The Role: Automation Test Lead – IAM Experience
Location: Sheffield, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: Hybrid – 2 - 3 Days Onsite
Job Description
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 policy-as-code.
- Experience validating event-driven platforms (Pub/Sub, queues, Kafka, etc.) and batch processing.
- Experience with identity warehousing and protocols/formats for data ingestion including SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC, and CSV.
- Experience with policy-based testing (RBAC / ABAC / ReBAC / PBAC).
- Experience in consumer-driven contract testing.
- Experience in risk-based test prioritisation.
- DevOps & CI/CD integration experience, including integrating automation tests into GitHub and CI/CD pipelines and implementing shift-left 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).
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- 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).
- Experience testing OPA / Rego policies.
- Exposure to containerised test execution.
- Knowledge of JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, NeoLoad (or similar) for load/stress/volume testing, including licensing requirements, configuration, dashboards, and reporting.
- GDBMS performance analysis.
- Exposure to SailPoint IdentityIQ.
- Exposure to GitOps repos.
- Exposure to testing HashiCorp Vault solutions.
- Experience testing SPIFFE/SPIRE.
- Exposure to testing session management services.
- Experience testing governance and auditing controls.
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Skills
Identity And Access Management
Backend Automation
Python
Pytest
Policy-As-Code
Event-Driven Platforms
Data Ingestion
Policy-Based Testing
DevOps
CI/CD
Cloud Testing
JIRA
Zephyr
Stakeholder Engagement
Technical Leadership