Test Engineering Architect

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Okta is looking for a Test Engineering Architect. This role operates as a technical, hands-on facilitator in the Quality organization and is a strategic participant across inter-dependent software development efforts. The ideal candidate cares deeply about efficiency in the software development process and has demonstrated experience leveraging best-of-breed tools and frameworks to deliver complete automated test suites. We want to make our customers wildly successful by empathizing with end users, customers and partners and understanding their use cases, then partnering with teams to build test strategies and plans to support functional and service requirements. We respond quickly to flakey and expensive tests to minimize impact to our teams that depend on them, working together on automation processes and best practices.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Express a strong, coherent vision for the execution of automated test scripts and validation of product requirements
• Help the dev and QA engineers work together towards a common vision of quality
• Architect the design, modification, development, and implementation of test automation frameworks
• Partner with the Engineering Productivity team to optimize the CI pipeline and dev experience
• Responsible for improvements to quality of tests and test coverage
• Execute practical application of Agile components (user stories, standups, sprints, etc.).
• Participate in Scrum, Daily Stand-up, Sprint and iterative development activities
• Participate in design reviews for tests, feature development, micro-services and reliability
• Extend tool capabilities and integrate with other technologies by coding interfaces, new functions, custom objects, etc.

Minimum REQUIRED Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 15+ years of software development background
• 10+ years of manual & automation testing experience of n-tier applications
• 5+ years of experience working in an iterative software development lifecycle
• Expert level hands on experience with Selenium Webdriver, API, etc using Java
• 5+ years hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and build automation systems
• 3+ years of experience with Agile/Scrum
• Test automation experience with open source and market-leading solutions creating functional, regression, or performance tests
• Demonstrated proficiency with OOP
• Understanding of scale and performance testing
• Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, and analytic skills in a multi-tier SaaS environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication

Nice to have:

• Strong knowledge and understanding of continuous delivery pipelines and tools
• Continuous delivery pipeline integration approaches for testing automation
• Mobile testing and automation
• Experience working in a highly automated enterprise class software environment preferably of scale with thousands of tests going through a gated CI pipeline
• Experience testing Identity Management, Directory or Security software

Education and Training:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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