# Senior Software Engineer in Test, Federal Classified

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $136,000-$187,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okta/jobs/8069707?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are seeking a highly specialised and experienced individual for a critical Software Engineer in Test role within a restricted environment. This position is vital for the validation and certification of all platform releases, ensuring customer-critical flows remain intact and reliable.

**Responsibilities**

- Analyse and refine requirements with Development and Engineering Leads, focusing on test planning and scope to certify releases.

- Participate effectively in a scrum team environment.

- Manage deliverables working under minimal supervision.

- Partner with Development and Release Teams to build and execute on product infrastructure growth and high availability.

- Understand Okta's top customers' usage patterns to define critical test coverage.

- Review new changes going into test and staging environments.

- Ensure new changes are compatible with existing customer deployments and usage.

- Develop, maintain, and debug end-to-end/system test plans and existing test automation to certify the quality of weekly releases.

- Set up and maintain all necessary test configurations and lab environments for end-to-end/system testing.

- Prioritise and ensure that critical customer usage patterns continue to function for every weekly release in our test and staging environments.

- Support the overall QA efforts of our software deployment and release teams, acting as a technical authority on quality in the restricted environment.

**Requirements**

- Must possess active High clearance.

- 4+ years of experience in software QA with a focus on release-based testing and validation.

- 4+ years of experience working in a SaaS-based environment.

- Experience working on both server and client side of device technology.

- Proven ability to understand, debug, and maintain existing automation code (e.g., Java-based) to diagnose failures.

- 4+ years of experience in at least three of the following cross-disciplinary skills: developing and executing end-to-end or system test plans, setting up and maintaining test configurations and lab environments.

**Additional Requirements**

- U.S. soil status - the employee must be on U.S. soil.

- U.S. Security Clearance status - the employee must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

**Benefits**

- Annual base salary range: $136,000-$187,000 USD.

- Equity (where applicable).

- Bonus.

- Health, dental and vision insurance.

- 401(k).

- Flexible spending account.

- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).

## Skills

### Required
- software QA
- release-based testing
- validation
- SaaS-based environment
- device technology
- automation code
- Java

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