Senior Engineering Manager, SDET - Okta Identity Governance (OIG)

Okta
Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeCAD 176,000 - 242,000 annuallyFunction: QA, Test & Release EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Feedback","Decision-making","Risk communication"]

Own the quality strategy for Okta Identity Governance (OIG), leading quality engineers and SDETs across 10 scrum teams distributed across Canada, the US, and India. Define testing at enterprise scale—coverage model, automation architecture, environments, and release readiness—while driving deterministic CI/CD gates via API, integration, and UI automation. Use quality metrics and compliance-focused testing to reduce escaped defects and improve release decisions.

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Senior Engineering Manager, SDET - Okta Identity Governance (OIG)

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Job Summary

Own the quality strategy for Okta Identity Governance (OIG), leading quality engineers and SDETs across 10 scrum teams distributed across Canada, the US, and India. Define testing at enterprise scale—coverage model, automation architecture, environments, and release readiness—while driving deterministic CI/CD gates via API, integration, and UI automation. Use quality metrics and compliance-focused testing to reduce escaped defects and improve release decisions.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: QA, Test & Release Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the quality strategy for OIG, including test approach, coverage model, automation architecture, environments, and release readiness.
  • •Lead, grow, and retain a distributed team of quality engineers and SDETs; manage team calibration, promotion planning, and recruiting.
  • •Drive automation strategy across API, integration, and UI layers to move from manual regression to deterministic CI/CD gates.
  • •Own quality signal metrics (escaped defects, coverage, flaky rate, time-to-detect) and use them to drive release decisions.
  • •Lead scale and data-integrity testing for large-tenant campaigns, bulk entitlement operations, and high-volume imports.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 176,000 - 242,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRrspTelemedicinePaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •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 multiple workstreams.
  • •Owned quality strategy for a product area, not just executing test plans.
  • •Hands-on test automation depth using 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:Enterprise cloud softwareDistributed teamsMulti-tenant SaaSCI/CDIdentity governanceCompliance testing
Skills:LeadershipCoachingFeedbackDecision-makingRisk communication
Tech Stack:JavaPythonTypeScriptRESTGRPCPlaywrightSeleniumCircleCICI/CDDockerKubernetes

Company Brief

Okta
Provides identity and access management cloud solutions that help organizations secure and manage user authentication, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management across applications and devices.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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