Automation Test Lead

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• 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 such as Pub/Sub, queues, Kafka, and batch processing
• Experience with identity warehousing and data ingestion protocols and formats including SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC, and CSV
• Experience with policy-based testing, including RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, and PBAC
• Experience in consumer-driven contract testing
• Experience in risk-based test prioritisation
• DevOps and 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, with additional exposure to AWS, Azure, Entra, Ali Cloud, and systems such as ServiceNow, AD, and ADLDS
• Extensive experience using JIRA and Zephyr
• 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

Responsibilities:

• We will define and own test architecture, strategy, and governance in a hands-on and strategic capacity
• We will drive automation engineering and CI/CD integration
• We will lead test delivery, defect management, and stakeholder reporting
• We will provide technical leadership and mentor engineers without line management responsibilities

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Azure
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GCP
• GitHub
• IAM
• JIRA
• Kafka
• LDAP
• Python
• REST
• RBAC
• Security
• ServiceNow
• pytest
• AI
• GitOps
• IdentityIQ
• Support
• JMeter
• n8n
• Neo4J

More:

We are hiring a highly skilled Automation Test Lead for a 6-month extendable contract in Sheffield with a hybrid working model requiring 3 days onsite. This role offers up to £450 per day inside IR35. You will work closely with tech leads, Cloud Security, DevOps, and Application Engineering teams to test secure, scalable workload identities and access workflows across Google Cloud Platform. The role focuses on an automation-first approach to supporting enterprise-level cloud and identity operations, with exposure to IAM, identity orchestration, API testing, data ingestion and transformation, and event-driven Pub/Sub architectures.

last updated 32 week of 2026