Staff Software Engineer in Test, iOS

Okta•Toronto, ON

4h•CA$140,000 - CA$192,500•Hybrid

About The Position

Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Test to join the iOS platform team, which is responsible for developing and maintaining Okta's iOS Apps and SDKs, including the Okta Verify mobile app. This role involves ensuring robust, secure releases and comprehensive test automation for the Okta Verify application and SDKs on iOS, iPadOS, and WatchOS platforms. The engineer will define and own the iOS test automation strategy, mentor other engineers, establish quality metrics, and collaborate with security, product management, and development teams to ensure high-quality product releases.

Requirements

5+ years of software test experience for iOS mobile applications, with 3+ years of hands-on experience with iOS UI test automation frameworks.
Experience in developing iOS test tools using Swift/Obj-C.
Experience defining test strategy at a platform or product-area level, leading release testing and managing product issues.
Experience building and maintaining Mobile CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Xcode Cloud).
Experience with collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence.
Experience with scripting languages like shell, python etc.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with iOS security frameworks (Keychain, Secure Enclave, biometrics) is a plus.
Experience with integration tools like CircleCI, Bitbar, BrowserStack is a plus.
Objective-C familiarity for legacy codebase navigation.

Responsibilities

Define and own the iOS test automation strategy and framework architecture for Okta Verify and its SDKs.
Mentor and technically guide engineers across quality and development teams; write and review designs and code in Swift with colleagues of varying seniority.
Establish and drive quality metrics, including test coverage, flakiness rates, and CI pipeline health and hold teams accountable to targets.
Partner with Security to define and execute security and privacy test coverage for authentication flows.
Represent quality in architecture and design reviews for new Okta Verify app and SDK features.
Define and communicate quality plans for the iOS platform and dependency scrum teams.
Design and build structured test automation frameworks using XCTest and deliver robust XCUI UI automated tests using Swift.
Develop and maintain high-quality functional, regression, and end-to-end tests for Okta Verify on iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.
Validate bug fixes and recommend product improvements on iOS, iPadOS and watchOS to ensure seamless user experiences for iPhones, iPads and Apple Watch for Apple’s major and minor upgrades to their operating systems.
Leverage CircleCI, digital.ai, jira, XRay and other tools to raise quality issues with development teams in a timely manner.
Collaborate with product management, development and cross functional teams using jira and confluence tools to define test plans grounded in business requirements and application software designs.