Senior Engineering Manager, SDET Okta Identity Governance (OIG)

Secure Every Identity from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.

Okta Identity Governance (OIG) is Oktas Identity Governance and Administration solution responsible for some of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how people request access how approvers grant it how entitlements are enforced and how organizations prove to auditors that only the right people have the right access.

OIG is the leading contributor to Oktas new product bookings and it runs inside some of the largest enterprises in the world the kind of accounts where a single tenant carries hundreds of thousands of identities across thousands of applications.

Quality here is a compliance bar not just a user experience one. When a governance product has a defect a company can stay over-provisioned on access it believes it revoked or hand an auditor evidence that isnt true.

As Senior Engineering Manager SDET youll own the quality strategy for OIG and lead the quality engineers and SDETs behind it 10 scrum teams with engineers in Canada the US and India. Youll set how we test governance at enterprise scale long-running certification campaigns tenants with millions of entitlements dozens of third-party connectors and audit records that must be provably correct.

Youll run multiple workstreams at once delegate tactical decisions while staying close enough to dive in and hold a quality position with engineering and product peers as a partner rather than a gatekeeper.

What Youll Be Doing

• Own the quality strategy for OIG test approach coverage model automation architecture environments and release readiness aligned to the pillars goals
• Lead grow and retain a distributed team of quality engineers and SDETs; own team calibration and promotion planning and drive recruiting as hiring manager
• Coach engineers on growth with timely actionable feedback and delegate without creating bottlenecks or hero culture
• Drive automation strategy across API integration and UI layers converting manual regression into deterministic CI/CD gates
• Own the quality signal escaped defects coverage flaky rate time-to-detect and use it to drive release decisions
• Lead scale and data-integrity testing for large-tenant campaigns bulk entitlement operations and high-volume imports
• Embed quality engineers into architecture and design reviews so testability and risk analysis shape the product early
• Track your teams investment mix manage expectations across workstreams and keep the team healthy and out of burnout
• Partner with engineering product design docs and support; turn escaped defects and RCAs into durable automated coverage

What Youll Bring To The Role

• 10 years in quality or test engineering or software engineering with a quality focus shipping enterprise cloud software
• 4 years managing engineers including distributed teams and more than one workstream at a time
• A track record of owning quality strategy for a product area not just executing test plans
• Hands-on depth in test automation at scale: Java Python or TypeScript plus API (REST gRPC) and UI automation (Playwright Selenium or equivalent)
• Experience with CI/CD (CircleCI or equivalent) containers (Docker Kubernetes) and a major cloud platform
• Experience testing multi-tenant SaaS including asynchronous event-driven systems and data reconciliation between systems
• Comfort making trade-off and risk calls against real constraints and communicating them clearly
• A record of growing people including promotions youve built the case for
• Experience recruiting mentoring and retaining engineers

• Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) access requests certifications entitlement management separation of duties or role modeling (Okta SailPoint Saviynt One Identity Oracle or in-house)
• Identity and Access Management more broadly: SSO SCIM provisioning directory integration or privileged access
• Testing in a compliance context SOX SOC 2 ISO 27001 or FedRAMP including audit evidence validation
• Performance scale or resilience engineering for data-heavy enterprise workloads
• Managing managers or tech leads

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