Mid-Level Python & API Automation Test Engineer – IAM & Cloud Projects

Unleash the Future of Identity & Access Management – Drive Innovation in the Cloud Era!

Krakow-based opportunity with hybrid work model (up to 4 remote days per week).

As a Mid-Level Python & API Automation Test Engineer, you will be working for our client, a leading player in global banking transforming its IAM infrastructure. You will be instrumental in supporting secure, scalable identity solutions across GCP, integrating advanced automation testing with modern cloud-native applications. This role offers a unique opportunity to innovate at the intersection of identity security, automation, and cutting-edge cloud technology, enabling your career growth in a truly transformative environment.

Your main responsibilities:

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and testing documentation aligned to technical specifications and requirements.
• Support the definition and maintenance of test entry and exit criteria for assigned components or workstreams.
• Ensure traceability of functional and non-functional requirements, maintaining up-to-date evidence for audit and regulatory purposes.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to define SIT/OAT/UAT scenarios, producing relevant test artefacts.
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve automated backend test scripts using Python and Pytest, focusing on API and integration testing.
• Validate event-driven systems such as Pub/Sub, queues, Kafka, including replay/reprocessing scenarios and data integrity assessments.
• Verify functions and decision logic defined as code, including policy-as-code frameworks.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline integration, ensuring automated tests are executed effectively, with reports generated and results communicated.
• Create and manage synthetic and anonymised test data to support repeatable automated testing.
• Track defects, participate in triage meetings, verify fixes, and report progress, risks, and dependencies regularly.
• Identify quality risks and suggest pragmatic process improvements.
• Collaborate within an Agile environment, promoting continuous enhancement of testing practices and quality standards.

You're ideal for this role if you have:

• At least 2 years of practical experience in backend automation testing with Python and Pytest.
• Solid understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts.
• Experience testing API-driven services (REST) with tools such as Postman, Insomnia, or similar.
• Knowledge of event-driven systems (Pub/Sub, queues, Kafka) and batch processing flows.
• Familiarity with identity protocols and data formats like SCIM, LDAP, OIDC, REST API, CSV.
• Understanding of policy-based access models (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, PBAC).
• Experience using JIRA and Zephyr for test management and defect lifecycle.
• Exposure to CI/CD practices, automation within pipelines, and cloud testing, especially GCP (additional AWS/Azure knowledge is a plus).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

It is a strong plus if you have:

• Experience with consumer-driven contract testing.
• Knowledge of policy-as-code tools such as OPA/Rego.
• Exposure to GraphDB (Neo4j), orchestration tools (n8n), and containerised testing.
• Performance testing experience with tools like JMeter, Gatling, or NeoLoad.
• Familiarity with GitOps, HashiCorp Vault, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and governance controls.

Language Required for the role:

• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Eligibility to work in Europe:

• Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in the European Union will be considered for this role.

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Interested? Apply now and include your CV (preferably in English) along with a statement confirming your consent to the processing and storage of your personal data.