Senior Salesforce Quality Engineer- Selenium/Java/Automation testing

About the job:

The Red Hat sales cloud team is looking for a highly skilled Senior Salesforce Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of Salesforce implementations, customizations, and integrations. You will work closely with developers, business systems analysts, and stakeholders to understand requirements, design test strategies, and automate test cases to improve product quality and speed of delivery.

What you will do?

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, business systems analysts, and product owners) to develop a test strategy that ensures comprehensive test coverage of Salesforce solutions.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and system testing on Salesforce implementations, including workflows, custom objects, and integrations with other systems.
• Design and implement automated test frameworks for Salesforce testing using tools like Selenium, Polarion, or similar.
• Provide feedback to the development team to improve coding and design practices from a quality standpoint.
• Create detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts for both manual and automated testing. Ensure proper documentation of defects and resolutions.
• Conduct performance and load testing for Salesforce solutions to ensure scalability and performance.
• Mentor junior QA team members, drive best practices for QA in the Salesforce environment, and foster a culture of quality within the team.
• Test integrations between Salesforce and other systems (e.g., ERP, marketing platforms) to ensure seamless data flow and process alignment.
• Log and track defects using tools like JIRA, ensuring that they are resolved in a timely manner.

What you will bring?

• 5+ years of experience working with Salesforce platform, with deep knowledge of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and custom development (APEX, Visualforce).
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, best practices, and tools. Experience with automated testing frameworks like Selenium, Polarian, or equivalent.
• Experience in automating Salesforce test cases using tools such as Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit, or equivalent. Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins is preferred.
• Expertise in functional testing, regression testing, system testing, and UAT. Familiarity with performance testing and load testing tools.
• Understanding of APEX test classes and how to create them to ensure code coverage and quality within Salesforce.
• Experience testing APIs and integrations (REST, SOAP) between Salesforce and other third-party systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in Salesforce implementations.
• Ability to mentor junior team members and drive best practices.
• Familiarity with Agile development and Scrum methodologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in tools like JIRA, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket
• Salesforce certifications such as Salesforce Administrator, Salesforce Developer, or Salesforce QA Specialist.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Proactive attitude and willingness to learn new technologies.