Staff Software Engineer in Test, Pam

Okta Okta · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Engineering Quality-630

Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Test for their Privileged Access Team (PAM) within Identity Management Engineering. The role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of large-scale, mission-critical backend solutions for enterprise SaaS. Responsibilities include test planning, automation of API, end-to-end, and reliability tests, code review, and responding to production issues. Experience with enterprise SaaS, Python/Java automation, distributed systems, and various testing tools is required. The role also requires the ability to access federal environments and U.S. Person status.

What you'd actually do

  1. Review requirements and design specs to develop relative test plans and test cases
  2. Automate API tests, end-to-end tests, reliability/scale tests
  3. Work with engineering management to scope and plan engineering efforts
  4. Communicate and document QE plans for scrum teams to review
  5. Review application code, identify bug and other areas of weakness, architect tools for future coverage

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of QE experience preferably in an enterprise SaaS company
  • 3+ years experience in quality engineering for enterprise level software
  • 5+ years of experience in Python/Java-based automation development
  • Expertise in test planning and cross team collaborative efforts
  • Experience working with distributed systems at large scale
  • Able to write and review designs and code with other team members
  • Able to deliver well-designed high-quality code on time
  • Experience with non HTTP-based protocols (SSH, RDP, TLS, LDAP, etc)
  • Experience with networking (IP addressing, routing, firewalls)

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with - Selenium, TestCafe, Postman, Jmeter, Locust, Splunk, AWS, Kubernetes
  • Experience with Performance testing is a huge plus

What the JD emphasized

  • requires the ability to access federal environments
  • must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status