Requirements
- Strong Python coding & PyTest automation experience to build reusable test utilities
- REST API automation; API tooling (Insomnia/Apidog/Postman); API Gateway testing
- Batch ETL testing
- Advanced schema/property-based testing
- Event-driven testing
- Pub/Sub and MQ concepts; replay/reprocessing; idempotency-style validation
- Async failure handling patterns
- Ordering/duplication/retry deep-dive suites
- Graph validation
- IAM concepts (auth/access); RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC/PBAC
- Identity lifecycle (Joiner/Mover/Leaver); human vs non-human identities
- Federation concepts
- Policy-as-code Testing decision points “as code”
- OPA/Rego policy testing; policy explainability validation
- Policy drift detection automation
- Jenkins pipeline creation/management; shift-left mindset
- GitOps repo experience; GitLab CI/CD integration
- Containerised test execution patterns
- Log/metric/trace validation in tests
- Signal-based failure detection automation
- Allure reporting; Grafana dashboard awareness
- Test governance FR/NFR traceability; entry/exit criteria; test case review for coverage
- Risk-based prioritisation; layered test architecture
- Cross-team RACI enforcement
- JIRA
- zephyr defect reporting and triage
- Advanced test data factories
Nice to Have
- Playwright exposure
- Typescript
- Any GraphDB testing or extensive testing of NoSQL DB
- Neo4j basics; Cypher queries for assertions; graph data validation
- GDBMS performance analysis
- Reporting query validation
- Test tool selection/recommendations
- Performance testing Awareness/exposure
- Licensing/config/dashboard ownership
- JMeter/Gatling/NeoLoad experience
- Data ingestion protocols
- Awareness of formats/protocols
- Identity warehousing exposure
- SCIM/LDAP/OIDC/CSV exposure
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Sheffield, UK
Additional Information
- Inside IR35
- Hybrid: 3 days onsite per week
- Looking for candidates from UK only with valid work permit
