Senior Salesforce Test Automation Engineer

Role Overview

• Own test automation strategy and execution across Salesforce environments — Classic, Lightning, and complex third-party integrations — selecting and evolving the right tools and frameworks for our stack.
• Design and build automated test suites using tools such as Playwright, Copado Robot Testing, simple-salesforce, Behave, or similar frameworks, and integrate them into our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / ArgoCD).
• Lead regression, smoke, functional, UAT, integration, and performance testing for Salesforce customizations including Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, and Flow automation.
• Shift left on quality — engage with requirements and design sessions early, challenge assumptions, and flag risks before they reach development.
• Champion testability in code reviews, providing structured feedback on Apex, LWC, and integration code with quality and coverage in mind.
• Validate data integrity across the platform, including Salesforce records, reports, dashboards, Data Cloud pipelines, and inbound/outbound integration payloads.
• Log, triage, and track defects end-to-end in Jira, maintaining clear reproduction steps and working collaboratively with developers through resolution.
• Define and maintain test documentation standards — test plans, test cases, automation scripts, coverage matrices, and results reports.
• Mentor and guide junior QA contributors and developers on automation best practices, test design patterns, and quality-first thinking.
• Stay current with Salesforce releases (3x per year), evaluate new features and deprecations for test impact, and recommend improvements proactively.

Requirements

• 5+ years of QA/test engineering experience, with a significant portion focused on Salesforce platforms in production environments.
• Deep Salesforce platform knowledge — hands-on experience testing Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Apex triggers and classes, Visualforce pages, Lightning Web Components, Flows, and platform events.
• Strong automation engineering skills — you write clean, maintainable test code.
• Proficiency in Python is expected; experience with Playwright, Copado Robot Testing, or comparable Salesforce-aware frameworks is a strong plus.
• CI/CD fluency — comfortable integrating automated tests into GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or ArgoCD-based pipelines, and iterating on pipeline configuration.
• Integration testing experience — ability to design and execute tests across REST/SOAP APIs, event-driven architectures (Kafka/Confluent), and data pipelines (Snowflake or similar warehouses).
• Jira proficiency — experience in defect lifecycle management, sprint hygiene, and working within structured Agile/Kanban workflows.
• Strong analytical instincts and the ability to translate ambiguous requirements into rigorous, actionable test strategies.
• Clear, direct communication skills — you can articulate risk, coverage gaps, and quality decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborative by nature — comfortable working across development, product, and platform teams, and willing to push back constructively when quality is at risk.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Kafka
• Python
• SOAP
• Visualforce

Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities
• Collaboration with global teams