I am testing the following component using SeamTest:

@Name("createUserService")
@AutoCreate
public class CreateUserService {
    @In private IdentityManager identityManager;

    public void createUser(
            final String username,
            final String password,
            final String role) {
        
        new RunAsOperation() {
            public void execute() {
               identityManager.createUser(username, password);
               identityManager.grantRole(username, role);
            }         
         }.addRole("admin")
          .run();
    }
}

Unfortunately, identityManager.grantRole() is failing with the following error:

org.jboss.seam.security.management.NoSuchUserException: Could not grant role, no such user 'jdoe'
     at org.jboss.seam.security.management.JpaIdentityStore.grantRole(JpaIdentityStore.java:277)
     at org.jboss.seam.security.management.IdentityManager.grantRole(IdentityManager.java:134)
     at org.archfirst.bullsfirst.domain.security.CreateUserService$1.execute(CreateUserService.java:45)
     at org.jboss.seam.security.Identity.runAs(Identity.java:734)
     at org.jboss.seam.security.RunAsOperation.run(RunAsOperation.java:84)
     at myApp.CreateUserService.createUser(CreateUserService.java:42)

Since the component is working perfectly well in the real app, can someone suggest what might be going wrong here? Is persistence not working in the test environment? I am using the same persistence.xml in test and app (using HSQL). I was seeing a warning earlier in the test environment about not having a persistent-permission-resolver which I cleared by putting the following in components.xml (in the test environment):

<security:persistent-permission-resolver permission-store="#{jpaPermissionStore}"/>

Still no luck!