What is the correct syntax for creating a user and populating the role?

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Here is what I am doing in my unit tests

const users = [
  { username: "authenticated", email: "authd@test.com", provider: "local", password: "test1234", role: "authenticated" },
  { username: "contributor", email: "contrib@test.com", provider: "local", password: "test1234" , role: "contributor" },
];

async  function createUsers(strapi){
  await Promise.all(
    users.map(async (user) => {
      // fetch role by type to get ID
      if ( user.role) {
        const foundRole = await strapi.query("plugin::users-permissions.role").findOne({where: {type: user.role}});
        if (!foundRole) throw Error(`role ${user.role} does not exist`);
        user.role = foundRole.id;
      }
      const { id } = await strapi.plugins['users-permissions'].services.user.add({
        ...user,
        blocked: false,
        confirmed: true,
        created_by: 1, //user admin id
        updated_by: 1, //user admin id
      });
      // Mutate user add jwt for later..
      user.jwt =  await strapi.service('plugin::users-permissions.jwt').issue({ id })
      }
  ));
}

FYi the user.add service seems to properly hash the password as well.