​Key Responsibilities

Test Architecture, Strategy and Governance (Hands-on + 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 non-deterministic AI behaviours

• Define and maintain test entry and exit criteria.

• Ensure FR/NFR traceability.

• Perform test case reviews/QA to ensure coverage and traceability to requirements/design.

• Establish automation testing standards, best practices, and governance frameworks across the organisation.

• Liaise with business areas and technical leads on scenario definition across SIT/OAT/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, self-healing, and intelligent reporting (supporting capability).

• Validate AI workflows, orchestration engines, and event-driven systems (Pub/Sub, queues, etc.).

• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines to run automated tests, generate reports, and notify teams of test results.

• Test and validate functions and decision logic defined “as code”, including policy-as-code.

• 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 (Non-line management)

• Provide technical leadership bym leading and mentoring engineers within the team.

• Collaborate effectively within the wider test team.

• Ability to continuously learn and adapt to new technologies/tools (e.g., 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 policy-as-code.

• Experience validating event-driven platforms (Pub/Sub, queues, Kafka, etc.) and batch processing.

• Experience with identity warehousing and protocols/formats for data ingestion including SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC, and CSV.

• Experience with policy-based testing (RBAC / ABAC / ReBAC / PBAC).

• Experience in consumer-driven contract testing.

• Experience in risk-based test prioritisation.

• DevOps & 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; 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 testingo OPA / Rego policies.

• Exposure tom containerised test execution.

• Knowledge of JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, NeoLoad (or similar) for load/stress/volume testing, including licensing requirements, configuration, dashboards, and reporting.

• GDBMS performance analysis.

• Exposure to SailPoint IdentityIQ.

• Exposure to GitOps repos.

• Exposure to testing HashiCorp Vault solutions.

• Experience in testing SPIFFE/SPIRE.

• Exposure to testing session management services.

• Experience testing governance and auditing controls.