Job
Automation Test Engineer
Job type:Contract
Town/City:Sheffield
County:South Yorkshire
Salary/Rate:Up to £435 per day + inside ir35
Business Sector:IT
Job ref:CDI - 153664
Post Date:January 08, 2026
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 specifications
Skills 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 experience
If you are interested in this role or wish to apply, please feel free to reply to this advert or call me on 01737 821029
Many thanks,

