At a Glance
- Tasks: Own quality for features, automate testing, and troubleshoot complex issues.
- Company: Join Okta, a leader in securing identities with innovative technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, health benefits, remote work options, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic team culture focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on enterprise-scale projects while working with cutting-edge tech.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in software engineering or quality engineering, with strong automation skills.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human. Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
The Okta Identity Governance Team is responsible for some of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how people request access, how approvers grant it, how entitlements are enforced, and how organizations prove to auditors that only the right people have the right access. Okta Identity Governance is the leading contributor to Okta's new product bookings, and it runs inside some of the largest enterprises in the world.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you'll own quality for medium-sized features on your scrum team, and co-own larger ones, from the first design review through release and into production. You'll turn the team's test strategy into test plans, write the automation, and hold the release bar for features that have to work at enterprise scale.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Review requirements and design specs, and write test plans that your scrum team reviews and builds against.
- Join architecture and design reviews early so testability and risk analysis shape the feature before it's built.
- Automate at every layer - API, integration, end-to-end, and UI - and wire it into continuous integration as deterministic release gates.
- Build scale, performance, and reliability tests for large-tenant campaigns, bulk entitlement operations, and high-volume imports.
- Validate data integrity across systems: access that was revoked stays revoked, and audit reports match what actually happened.
- Review application code, find weak spots, and build tools and frameworks that make future coverage faster to add.
- Review teammates' code and tests with an eye on reliability, performance, and security, and share what you learn across the team.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across services, and improve how the team works - documentation, CI/CD, monitoring, and support processes.
- Keep critical features fully automated so the team ships with zero test debt, and hunt down flaky tests.
- Work with engineering management to scope and plan quality work across the team.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and site reliability engineers to understand the business outcome behind each feature, including non-functional requirements.
- Respond to production issues, alerts, and customer escalations during on-call rotation, and turn root causes into lasting automated coverage.
- Advocate for the customer: work with field and customer success teams on customer issues, know how the largest tenants use the product and make sure those flows never break.
What You'll Bring To The Role:
- 5+ years in software engineering in test or quality engineering, ideally for enterprise software-as-a-service products.
- 5+ years building test automation in Java; Python or TypeScript is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with API automation (REST, gRPC) and UI automation (Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent).
- Experience with performance and load testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, Locust, or equivalent).
- Experience with continuous integration (CircleCI or equivalent), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and a major cloud platform such as AWS.
- Experience testing distributed, multi-tenant systems at scale, including asynchronous and event-driven workflows.
- Comfort using logs and monitoring (Splunk or equivalent) to debug failures in test and production.
- The ability to write and review designs and code with other engineers, and to deliver well-designed, high-quality code on time.
- A track record of owning medium-sized features end to end and troubleshooting complex issues with little guidance.
- Strong test planning skills and a track record of working with product, design, and operations partners.
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- Identity Governance and Administration - access requests, certifications, entitlement management, separation of duties, or role modeling.
- Identity and access management more broadly: single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, or directory integration.
- Integrations with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Active Directory, or LDAP.
- Testing in a compliance context - SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP - including audit evidence validation.
- Using AI tools or agents to speed up test creation, triage, or maintenance.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $118,000 CAD - $162,000 CAD.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Senior Software Engineer in Test in Toronto employer: Okta
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