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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 flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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. 

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations achieve two key objectives: securing and managing their extended enterprise, and transforming their customers' experiences.

Okta is seeking an experienced Software Engineer in Test to join our backend Core Engineering group, focusing on both automation and end-to-end testing. Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're responsible for common shared services, including search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for asynchronous job management, and email pipelines, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization, and resiliency are first-class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!', there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers.

You'll be joining a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative, and flexible, with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, cutting-edge technologies, and the opportunity to hold significant equity in a company poised to transform the cloud computing landscape. As part of the team, you’ll ensure projects are completed with the highest quality and reliability using automation at every level for fast, robust, secure releases.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Review requirements, design specifications, and application code to identify risks, prevent defects, and build reusable testing tools.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and automation frameworks for high-performance, scalable software components and APIs.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable automated test suites covering functional, end-to-end, API, reliability, and performance testing.
• Contribute to the functional validation of new features and ensure seamless delivery to production environments.
• Partnered with scrum teams, release engineering, and management to scope, plan, and align test engineering efforts with industry best practices.
• Collaborated cross-functionally to deliver backend infrastructure engineering solutions and drive developer productivity initiatives.
• Ensured critical feature automation coverage, maintaining a zero-debt cadence and consistent release quality.
• Provided on-call production support, responding to alerts and customer-reported issues with rapid resolution and root cause analysis.
• Served as a strong customer advocate, embedding quality DNA into every stage of the software development lifecycle.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 2+ years in product testing & automation, including 1+ years with Java-based frameworks.
• Skilled in automation tools like Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, Rest Assured, Karate, TestCafe, etc.
• Skilled in performance testing tools like JMeter, Locust, etc.
• Strong grasp of software engineering, test methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines to drive build quality.
• Experience in testing enterprise-level, large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficient with databases (e.g, MySQL) for backend validation.
• Expertise in test planning, cross-team collaboration, and code/design reviews.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality, well-structured test code with minimal supervision.
• Practical expertise with cloud and infrastructure tools, including AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, and Kubernetes, to design, test, and deploy distributed systems at scale.
• Ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Gemini, OpenAI API, Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) to enhance productivity and problem-solving.
• Ability to integrate AI-powered assistants into daily workflows to improve efficiency in research, documentation, coding, and communication.
• Continuous learning mindset with the ability to adapt to new and evolving AI technologies

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Spring, Maven, and Tomcat, building and testing scalable backend services
• Experience with enterprise SaaS is a good-to-have
• Familiarity with the Agile software development process

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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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