Senior Software Engineer in Test

Toronto · CAD 118,000-162,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Posted Sep 28, 2026

At a glance

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at Okta, you'll own quality for medium-sized features on your scrum team, and co-own larger ones, from the first design review through release and into production.
You will turn the team's test strategy into test plans, write the automation, and hold the release bar for features that have to work at enterprise scale.

Review requirements and design specs, and write test plans that your scrum team reviews and builds against
Join architecture and design reviews early so testability and risk analysis shape the feature before it's built
Automate at every layer — API, integration, end-to-end, and UI — and wire it into continuous integration as deterministic release gates
Build scale, performance, and reliability tests for large-tenant campaigns, bulk entitlement operations, and high-volume imports
Validate data integrity across systems: access that was revoked stays revoked, and audit reports match what actually happened
Review application code, find weak spots, and build tools and frameworks that make future coverage faster to add
Review teammates' code and tests with an eye on reliability, performance, and security, and share what you learn across the team
Troubleshoot complex issues across services, and improve how the team works — documentation, CI/CD, monitoring, and support processes
Keep critical features fully automated so the team ships with zero test debt, and hunt down flaky tests
Respond to production issues, alerts, and customer escalations during on-call rotation, and turn root causes into lasting automated coverage

5+ years in software engineering in test or quality engineering, ideally for enterprise software-as-a-service products
5+ years building test automation in Java
Hands-on experience with API automation (REST, gRPC) and UI automation (Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent)
Experience with performance and load testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, Locust, or equivalent)
Experience with continuous integration (CircleCI or equivalent), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and a major cloud platform such as AWS
Experience testing distributed, multi-tenant systems at scale, including asynchronous and event-driven workflows
Comfort using logs and monitoring (Splunk or equivalent) to debug failures in test and production
The ability to write and review designs and code with other engineers, and to deliver well-designed, high-quality code on time
A track record of owning medium-sized features end to end and troubleshooting complex issues with little guidance
Strong test planning skills and a track record of working with product, design, and operations partners

Python or TypeScript experience
Identity Governance and Administration — 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: single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, or directory integration
Integrations with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Active Directory, or LDAP
Testing in a compliance context — SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP — including audit evidence validation
Using AI tools or agents to speed up test creation, triage, or maintenance

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