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