- As Senior Engineering Manager, SDET, you’ll 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. You’ll 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

- You’ll 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

- Own the quality strategy for OIG — test approach, coverage model, automation architecture, environments, and release readiness — aligned to the pillar’s 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 team’s 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

Advantages

- Work from home opportunities

- Health + Wellness

- Financial Benefits

- Pay + Incentives

- Time Off

- Everyday Living
- Resources- We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence

- Experience recruiting, mentoring, and retaining engineers

- 10+ years in quality or test engineering, or software engineering with a quality focus, shipping enterprise cloud software

- Experience with CI/CD (CircleCI or equivalent), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and a major cloud platform

- Comfort making trade-off and risk calls against real constraints, and communicating them clearly
- A record of growing people, including promotions you’ve built the case for

- Hands-on depth in test automation at scale: Java, Python, or TypeScript, plus API (REST, gRPC) and UI automation (Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent)

- Experience testing multi-tenant SaaS, including asynchronous, event-driven systems and data reconciliation between systems
- A track record of owning quality strategy for a product area, not just executing test plans

- 4+ years managing engineers, including distributed teams and more than one workstream at a time

- 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

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (SDET - Okta Identity Governance (OIG)) (Toronto)
🏢 Okta
📍 Toronto