Lead Automation Test Architect

Job Title: Lead Automation Test Architect

Location: Sheffield/Hybrid (3 days per week on site)

Duration: 12 months

Rate: £546 per day inside ir35

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Lead Automation Test Architect with strong expertise Identity and Access management (IAM), skilled in identity orchestration, API testing, data ingestion and transformation, and event-driven (Pub/Sub) architectures. This role focuses on testing secure, scalable identity and access workflows across Google Cloud Platform, integrating identity services with custom APIs, Pub/Sub pipelines, and cloud-native 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 enterprise-level cloud and Identity operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Create an overall testing strategy where the focus is Automation First with minimal manual effort required.
• Plan, develop, execute, maintain and improve Automated Test Framework and Automated Test Scripts for Web and Graph Database applications
• Jenkins pipeline creation and management for running automated tests, generating reports and notifying team about test results to streamline the CI/CD process.
• Lead, mentor, and manage other engineers within the team

Skills required:

• 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

If you are interested in this role or wish to apply, please feel free to reply to this advert or call me on (phone number removed)

Many thanks,