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Job title: Test Manager - Identity and Access
Location: London (Hybrid)
Contract: 3 to 6 months

The Test Manager will lead the end-to-end testing strategy for Identity & Access Management initiatives, covering multiple workstreams including Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Remote Access. The role is accountable for ensuring that testing provides confidence in third-party delivered solutions, supports business readiness through effective UAT, and assures access controls across people and platforms.

The Test Manager will operate across complex IAM landscapes involving directories, identity platforms, and access technologies, working closely with engineering teams, security, business stakeholders, and external suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

Define and own the Identity - Access Control test strategy across multiple parallel workstreams (e.g. Privileged Access, Remote Access).
Establish and govern test approaches, standards, and entry/exit criteriaaligned to security, risk, and compliance expectations.
Assure third-party testing activities, assuring quality, coverage, and evidence provided by vendors and delivery partners.
Plan, organise, and manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT), ensuring business scenarios, privilege identity lifecycles, and access outcomes are validated.
Oversee integration and end-to-end testingacross identity sources, directories, access platforms, and downstream systems.
Manage test environments, data readiness, defect triage, and resolution in collaboration with engineering and suppliers.
Provide clear test reporting, risk assessments, and go/no-go recommendations to programme and security leadership.
Ensure testing supports auditability, traceability, and regulatory assurance for identity and access controls.

Essential Skills and Experience

Proven experience as a Test Manager within IAM, PAM, Network, cybersecurity, or complex enterprise technology programmes.
Strong understanding of Identity & Access Management concepts, including privileged access, logical access\ remote access.
Experience assuring third-party and systems integrator delivery within structured governance models.
Demonstrated ability to lead UAT with business and security stakeholders, translating technical outcomes into business validation.
Solid understanding of testing across directories, identity platforms, access controls, and authentication services.
Excellent stakeholder management, planning, and risk management skills.
Experience operating in regulated or security-sensitive environments

Desirable Skills

Working knowledge of logical access management principles, including authentication, authorisation, and secure access pathways
Understanding of network access concepts relevant to identity, such as corporate networks, remote access models, VPNs, and zero-trust approaches.
Experience or familiarity with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) methods, including app-based, hardware-based, and risk-based authentication
Knowledge of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and secure remote working solutions, including how identity and access controls are enforced in virtual environments.
Awareness of Privileged Access Workstations (PAW) / Virtual PAW concepts and their role in protecting high-risk or administrative access.
Familiarity with hardware authentication devices such as security keys (e.g. U2F/FIDO2 keys, YubiKeys) and their integration into access flows

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