Quality Engineering Manager

Okta is looking for an experienced hands-on technical QA Manager to build and lead a test engineering team. The ideal candidate is passionate about building large-scale, mission-critical software in a fast-paced agile environment.

Our elite team is fast, innovative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and their leaders and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

The ideal candidate is passionate about leading quality strategy for large-scale, mission-critical client applications on Apple, Google and Windows platforms.This is a great opportunity to work in an environment of scale, lead a very talented organization, build processes, and be front and center in Okta??s vision of passwordless access to any application. The role gives the candidate an excellent opportunity to learn about interesting problems in security and identity space. It also has a lot of visibility within Okta and has great growth potential.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Major areas of responsibility include:

• 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 leadership
• Drive standard methodologies in the areas of development testing, functional testing, automation, performance, and resiliency testing with best in class quality practices.
• Hire and nurture top-shelf staff
• Work with Product Management and Development Management to define requirements and schedules and then drive delivery.
• Be a bridge between Quality and Customer First teams to incorporate end to end customer flows in testing strategy
• Partner with Customer Support and field teams to understand customer use cases

Minimum REQUIRED Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 5+ years of people management experience
• 10+ years experience in test engineering for software products
• Experience in mobile, desktop and/or client facing application testing and automation
• Experience in building healthy Continuous Deployment pipelines with robust Test Automation practices (e.g. Integration, E2E, Performance) in an agile environment.
• Broad knowledge and hands-on technical experience in test methodologies and automation development

• Ability to optimally prioritize and complete tasks in a high-pressure fast paced environment

Education and Training:

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