Automation Test Engineer

Sheffield
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Job Title: Automation Test Engineer

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

Duration: 12 months+

Rate: £435 per day inside ir35

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Automation Test engineer with strong expertise Identity and Access management (IAM), skilled in identity orchestration, API testing, data ingestion and transformation, and event-driven (Pub/Sub) architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Working with the Lead automation architect in the creation of 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.
Able to develop and execute test plans, test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other testing related plans and documentation based on the requirements and technical specificationsSkills required:

Deep IAM domain knowledge
Solid experience of at least 3 years in a senior 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)
Graph and event-driven validation
Automation-first test experienceIf 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

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