Staff Software Engineer In Test

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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

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The QA Core Team

The QA Core team is responsible for release based testing and validation, and developing test services that enable automation for other teams. QA Core also works closely with Release Engineering, Release Management, Technical Operations and Engineering Leadership to ensure our weekly releases across all services are completed on time and with high quality.

This is a high impact role in a key area for Okta’s continued uptime and reliability.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Manage deliverables working under minimal supervision
• Participate effectively in a scrum team environment.
• Understand Okta’s top customers usage
• Set up and maintain test configurations for end-to-end/system testing.
• Develop and execute end-to-end/system test plan.
• Analyze/refine requirements with Development and Engineering Leads Partner with Engineering Management to scope and plan test efforts design and implement robust, scalable test solutions
• Ensure that new changes are compatible with existing customer deployments and usage. Support the QA efforts of our software deployment and release teams.
• Partner with Development and Release Teams to build and execute on product infrastructure growth and high availability
• Prioritize and ensure that these patterns continue to function for every weekly release in our test and staging environments.
• Ensure new changes are compatible with existing customer deployments and usage; develop new test services focused on release readiness and validation.
• Review new changes going into test and staging environments
• Review new changes going into test and staging environments.
• Understand and monitor customer usage patterns and translate them into test requirements for automated or manual testing.

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• Selenium (preferably with Java)
• Log management tools (Splunk/Sumologic/Kibana)
• 2+ years of experience working in a SaaS based environment
• 2 years of experience with Java-based test automation development
• 2 years of experience with developing and executing end to end or system test plans
• 2 years of experience setting up and maintaining test configurations and lab environments
• 2 years of experience writing SQL, and testing or building out integrated scenarios
• 2+ years experience in software QA with a focus on release based testing.
• Docker, Kubernetes
• TestNG
• 2+ Experience working on both server and client side of device technology
• 2+ years of experience in software QA with focus on release based testing
• 2+ Experience with some of the following technologies and services:

Education and Training:

B.S in Comp Sci, Comp Engineering, Software Engineering or a closely related technical field

2 - 5 years of experience as a quality engineer or software engineer

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Making Social Impact
• Amazing Benefits
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