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Role Title: IAM Tester
Location: Sheffield/hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
Duration: 12 months
Rate: £355 per day inside ir35

Responsibilities:

Produce test estimates and work closely with the Project Manager to ensure project work is delivered to required timescales and quality levels.
Work alongside business analysts, scrum-masters and project managers to understand business goals/drivers and deliver testing artefacts to the required timescales.
Implement, maintain, and improve test team principles and strategy that address all aspects of the Test process.
Create Project level Automation Framework and ensure test automation is used effectively to minimise test cycle timescales while maintaining high quality standards.
Define and manage regression test pack, ensuring it's kept up to date by the team
Provide test completion certification to move into Release process.
Ensure testing enables development projects to be delivered on time, meet business requirements, and fulfil end-user requirements.
Assist with identifying and resolving systems issues.
Defect management across all test phases and remediation activities including leading triage sessions for project specific bugsDesirable experience and skills:

Previous experience within Identity and Access Management, Privilege Access, Secrets Management tools, Access and Identity Management systems including AD/ADLDS
Experience of testing on both on and off premises test environments
Experience of automation testing tools including Jenkins, Maven, Junit Jupiter, Selenium, and Selenium WebDriver
A working knowledge of Java.
Any exposure to SailPoint IdentityIQ

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