Manager of Quality Engineering

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Okta is looking for someone to manage and grow a test engineering team. The ideal candidate cares deeply about ensuring quality for large-scale, mission-critical software in an Agile environment and has empathy for the people who will interact with it: the end users, admins, and developers. We strive to ensure quality with automated continuous integration tests, synthetic traffic generation, and live-site monitoring. Our elite team is honest, innovative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and high standards, we expect great things from our engineering teams. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities: 

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on technical QA Manager who can guide the QA members in the QA team and in their development scrum teams, build alliances across dev teams and unblock team members. 

  • Manage day to day activities of test engineers within an Agile/Scrum environment 
  • Drive the building of world-class test automation with your technical expertise and support 
  • Hire and nurture top-shelf staff 
  • Work with Operations to help understand and monitor changing behavior on the live site 
  • Work with Product Management and Development Management to define requirements and schedules then drive delivery. 
  • Partner with Customer Support and field teams to understand customer use cases  

Required Skills:

  • 2+ years of people management experience 
  • 5+ years of experience in software test engineering 
  • Broad knowledge and hands-on technical experience in test methodologies and automation development  
  • Excellent skills developing Selenium Webdriver tests, preferably in Java 
  • Experience with test efforts for mobile applications or MFA technologies is a plus 

Education and Training: 

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field