IAM Automation Test Consultant

IAM Automation Test Engineer

Whitehall Resources currently require an experienced IAM Automation Test Engineer to work with a key client.

Please note this role requires 3 days a week onsite and falls Inside IR35.

We are looking for a highly skilled Automation chick engineer with strong expertise in 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, Dev Ops, and Application Engineering teams to thoroughly test robust IAM, identity lifecycle workflows and secureinvalid service integrations that support enterprise‑level cloud and identity operations.

• Working with the Lead automation architect in the creation of an overall testing strategy focused on 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 the team about test results to streamline the CI/CD process.
• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other testing related plans and documentation based on the requirements and technical specifications.
• Test data generation.
• Accurately report and track testing related defects and issues, by writing or automating effective and thorough bug reports, attending triage meetings and verifying bug fixes.
• Identify process and application issues and provide suggestions to improve.
• Learn new technologies and adapt to them as needed.
• Communicate progress regularly to senior stakeholders and programme leads, understanding the level of information relevant to the recipient.
• Generate regulatory evidence as needed.
• FR / NFR traceability.
• Identification and collating test entry and exit criteria.
• Test case review/QA for coverage and trace solltest to requirements/design.
• Liaison with business areas/technical leads re SIT/OAT/UAT scenario definitions as required.
• Analysis of design and other documents for testability.
• Testing functions and decision points as Code, such as Policy as code.
• Undertake manual test case creation and execution as required along with exploratory testing.

• Deep IAM domain knowledge.
• Solid experience of at least 3 years in a senior automation role, skilled in creating frameworks with strong coding experience (Javaششځي Playwright, Python, Typescript, Cypher, Scala) and API tooling (Insomnia, Apidog, Postman).
• Graph and event‑driven validation.
• Automation‑first test experience.
• Layered test architecture.
• Risk‑based test prioritisation.
• RBAC / ABAC / ReBAC / PBAC.
• OPA / Rego policy testing.
• Policy explainability validation.
• REST API automation, API Gateway testing, Batch ETL testing.
• Consumer‑driven contract testing.
• Replay and reprocessing testing.
• Graph data validation (Neo4j).
• Containerised test execution.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and stakeholder engagement at all levels.
• Experience of using a range of automation tools and experience of test tool selection/recommendations based on assessment of the environment/landscape.
• Experience of inputting into an overall test strategy that fully defines the approach, environment, scope, risks and resources required.
• Cloud testing approaches and methodology, especially GCP, but also AWS, Azure, Entra, Alibaba Cloud and other systems such as Service Now, AD, ADLDS.
• Some knowledge of JMeter, Gatling, Load Runner, Neo Load or similar tools for load, stress, and volume testing.
• Experience of testing сорта дан graph database management systems (GDBMS) and graph platform engineering, Neo4j basics.
• GDBMS Performance Analysis.
• Testing functions and decision points as Code ; such as Policy as code.
• Extensive experience using JIRA and Xephyr…