# Staff Software Engineer in Test, PAM
**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $174K-$240K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Java, Selenium, Testcafe, Postman, Jmeter, Locust, Splunk, AWS, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-04-08
> Staff Software Engineer in Test develops and automates API, end-to-end, and scale tests for Privileged Access Management backend systems. Requires 5+ years QE experience, Python/Java automation, and familiarity with distributed systems, networking protocols.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Review requirements and design specs to develop relative test plans and test cases
- Automate API tests, end-to-end tests, reliability/scale tests
- Work with engineering management to scope and plan engineering efforts
- Communicate and document QE plans for scrum teams to review
- Review application code, identify bug and other areas of weakness, architect tools for future coverage
- Automate all critical features to maintain zero-debt cadence
- Release features with solid quality
- Respond to production issues/alerts and customer issues during on-call rotation
- Be a strong customer advocate with a strong quality DNA

## Requirements
- 5+ years of QE experience preferably in an enterprise SaaS company
- 3+ years experience in quality engineering for enterprise level software
- 5+ years of experience in Python/Java-based automation development
- Familiarity with Selenium, TestCafe, Postman, Jmeter, Locust, Splunk, AWS, Kubernetes
- Expertise in test planning and cross team collaborative efforts
- Experience working with distributed systems at large scale
- Able to write and review designs and code with other team members
- Able to deliver well-designed high-quality code on time
- Experience with non HTTP-based protocols (SSH, RDP, TLS, LDAP, etc)
- Experience with networking (IP addressing, routing, firewalls)

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Performance testing
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