Salesforce QA Engineer

Salesforce QA Functional Tester & Automation
Overall Experience: 4–6 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering.
Salesforce Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in Salesforce manual testing combined with automation Testing.
Core Competencies: Thorough understanding of business requirement gathering, risk-based test planning, and breaking applications through complex edge cases.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Functional & Core Testing
Drive End-to-End Functional Testing, Manual Testing, and Regression Testing across Salesforce Clouds (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud).
Create comprehensive Test Plans and Test Cases for new and existing features, defining structured approaches to test scheduling, execution, and exit criteria.
Validate that User Story Acceptance Criteria are strictly met to maintain the highest software quality within scheduled sprint timelines.
Utilize tools like Data Loader for data insertion, updates, and bulk import/export across Salesforce.com Objects.
Execute Integration testing, Cross-browser testing, Mobile testing, and Localization/Translation testing.
Actively participate in defect triage meetings with cross-functional development and product management teams.
Automation Testing
Design, build, and maintain automated test scripts within automated regression suites.
Copado & Advanced Test Automation: Hands-on experience with Copado Robotic Testing and Copado Automation to build, manage, and scale low-code/cloud-native test automation frameworks.
CI/CD Pipeline Integration: Integrate automated test suites into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Copado CI/CD) to ensure automated quality gates run seamlessly with every deployment.
Leverage programming and scripting languages to write custom test utilities, data generators, or extensions for automated frameworks.
Perform robust REST-API Testing using tools like Postman or integrated script frameworks.
Agile Execution & Collaboration
Work seamlessly within an Agile Scrum QA environment, participating effectively in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
Demonstrate strong independent leadership in driving complex quality engineering projects from inception to sign-off.
Maintain flexible and adaptable working styles, including overlapping hours with US time zones for optimal collaboration.
Exhibit strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate test results and risk metrics clearly to stakeholders.
Education / Knowledge & Certifications
Education: Bachelor of Science degree from a four-year college, university, or equivalent.
Required Certification: Salesforce Administrator Certified.
Preferred Certifications: Copado Certifications (e.g., Copado Robotic Testing / Copado Administrator) and Automation Testing certifications.
Independent contributor capable of operating with minimal supervision while maintaining high synergy with distributed engineering teams.

Work arrangement
Hybrid