IAM QA Tester: Authentication & API Validation

Programmers.io; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io is seeking a QA Tester to design, execute, and document test scenarios for customer authentication and IAM replacement. The role focuses on validating authentication flows, performing API tests, and ensuring UI-backend integration across systems.

Basic automation knowledge is a plus, with opportunities to contribute to regression and integration testing, collaborating with developers, product owners, and architects.

Qualifications

• Create and execute manual test cases for customer authentication, sign-on, MFA, SSO, session handling, and error scenarios.
• Validate Ping Identity authentication flows, policies, federation, token issuance, and access control behavior.
• Perform API testing for Java backend services using tools such as Postman, Swagger, or similar.
• Validate integration between UI, IAM platform, backend services, directories, customer identity stores, and downstream systems.
• Execute regression, functional, integration, smoke, sanity, and user acceptance testing support.
• Identify, document, track, and retest defects through the defect lifecycle.
• Support migration testing from the existing IAM solution to the replacement authentication platform.
• Perform basic automation or script-based validation only where needed for repeatable regression or API checks.
• Collaborate with developers, product owner, architects, scrum

Responsibilities

• Create and execute manual test cases for customer authentication, sign-on, MFA, SSO, session handling, and error scenarios.
• Validate Ping Identity authentication flows, policies, federation, token issuance, and access control behavior.
• Perform API testing for Java backend services using tools such as Postman, Swagger, or similar.
• Validate integration between UI, IAM platform, backend services, directories, customer identity stores, and downstream systems.
• Execute regression, functional, integration, smoke, sanity, and user acceptance testing support.
• Identify, document, track, and retest defects through the defect lifecycle.
• Support migration testing from the existing IAM solution to the replacement authentication platform.
• Perform basic automation or script-based validation only where needed for repeatable regression or API checks.
• Collaborate with developers, product owner, architects, scrum

Skills

Manual testing

Test planning

Defect lifecycle

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

REST Assured

Job description

Programmers.io is seeking a QA Tester to design, execute, and document test scenarios for customer authentication and IAM replacement. The role focuses on validating authentication flows, performing API tests, and ensuring UI-backend integration across systems.

Basic automation knowledge is a plus, with opportunities to contribute to regression and integration testing, collaborating with developers, product owners, and architects.