Automation Test lead with AI

Automation Test Lead

Sheffield-UK

Hybrid Mode to Office

Inside Ir35

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

Location UK

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

Ensure FRN/FR traceability

Perform test case reviews QA 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 SITOAT UAT and the wider testing lifecycle as required

Generate regulatory evidence as needed

Automation Engineering and CI/CD

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

Experience testing OPA Rego policies

Exposure to containerised test execution

Knowledge of JMeter Gatling

Skills

Mandatory Skills : PyTest-Automation, Python Data Automation Testing