Job Description
Our client is looking for a Salesforce Automation Tester to join their team. This person will be responsible for ensuring the quality, stability, and scalability of Salesforce solutions, with a strong emphasis on Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and integrated enterprise applications. This role leads quality assurance efforts across manual and automated testing, validates complex integrations and AppExchange solutions, and ensures robust test data management and seeding practices. The ideal candidate brings a qualityengineering mindset, strong Salesforce domain expertise, and hands-on experience with test automation and data management in multiorg environments in a manner consistent with FHLB, Chicago Software Testing Policies and Standards. How you''''ll make an impact: Elevate Salesforce quality and release confidence by designing and executing robust manual and automated test strategies across Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and complex integrations ensuring stable, scalable, and defect-resistant releases. Accelerate delivery through automation and data excellence by strengthening Selenium/Playwright and API automation frameworks while implementing reliable test data creation, masking, and refresh strategies across multi-org Salesforce environments. Reduce production risk and defects by validating end-to-end workflows, Apex, flows, integrations, and data integrity using SOQL and API testing, while proactively identifying issues early in the Agile lifecycle. Strengthen QA maturity and team capability by mentoring junior QA engineers, driving best practices in quality engineering, and continuously improving QA processes, standards, and reporting through Azure DevOps. What you can expect: Design, develop, and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test scripts for Salesforce Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud implementations Perform functional, regression, integration, system, and user acceptance testing (UAT) Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks using Selenium or other test automation tools Validate Salesforce configurations, customizations, workflows, flows, Apex code, and integrations with external systems Ensure data integrity and accuracy through effective test data management practices, including data creation, masking, and refresh strategies Identify, document, and track defects; collaborate with development teams to ensure timely resolution Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and provide quality-related input during sprint planning and backlog refinement Support release planning by executing smoke tests and production validation activities Mentor junior QA analysts and promote best practices in quality engineering and automation Continuously improve QA processes, standards, and tools to enhance test coverage and efficiency Track and report all results, problems and defects throughout the testing cycle using Azure DevOps. Represents testing team and participates in reviews of use cases and other requirements documentation to obtain an understanding of systems changes in preparation for test case development. Expected to provide valuable input on process improvements. Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture, including standard objects, custom objects, flows, validation rules, and integrations. Experience creating comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for core Salesforce functionality. Proficiency in SOQL for backend data validation, troubleshooting, and verifying data integrity across objects. Hands on experience with API testing (REST) using Postman or similar tools. Ability to validate end to end workflows, data flows, and system integrations with upstream and downstream systems. Familiarity with Salesforce sandbox environments, release cycles, and deployment processes. Strong knowledge of defect logging and tracking using Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise Jira, or similar platforms. Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as C#, Java, Python Experience with test automation using Selenium or Playwright for Salesforce UI testing. Experience with API automation (e.g.,RestSharp, RestAssured). Experience working with BDD frameworks (e.g., SpecFlow, Cucumber). Skilled in data setup and data validation testing within Salesforce environments. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with product owners, developers, and business analysts. Ability to ensure thorough regression, functional, integration, and UAT test coverage for Salesforce releases. What you ll bring: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, E