Quality Engineer - Salesforce

Role purpose
You own quality outcomes for Salesforce delivery from Ireland. You prevent defects through early engagement, strong test strategy, and close partnership with engineering and product teams. You drive a strong automation-first approach with defined standards across tools, frameworks, and SDLC practices. The role reports to a US-based leader and supports globally delivered releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Own test strategy for Salesforce work delivered from Ireland
• Embed with agile teams and engage early during design and refinement
• Influence architecture and design decisions through a quality lens
• Drive automation strategy using Java, Selenium, and Maven, with focus on scalable regression coverage
• Apply BDD practices using Cucumber and Gherkin to align business and technical validation
• Validate releases across development, test, staging, and production environments
• Coordinate quality handoffs with onshore and offshore teams
• Track escaped defects and lead actions to reduce recurrence
• Raise quality risks early and challenge delivery tradeoffs when needed
  Salesforce and technical scope
• Apex test coverage and complex data setup
• Lightning Web Component UI testing
• API and integration testing across internal and external systems
• Regression automation design, execution, and maintenance using Selenium-based framework
• Experience with Playwright as a secondary framework is a plus
• Practical use of BDD frameworks such as Cucumber, using Gherkin for test definition
• Source control and workflow management using GitHub EMU
• Release validation, smoke testing, and post-deploy verification

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
• Equivalent practical experience accepted in place of a formal degree

Minimum qualifications

• Six plus years of QA or test engineering experience
• Three plus years testing Salesforce platforms in production environments
• Five plus years hands-on experience with Selenium-based automation frameworks
• Strong experience with Java and Maven for automation development
• Proven experience implementing BDD using Cucumber and Gherkin
• Experience working in agile delivery teams
• Strong written and spoken EnglishStr
• Legal right to work in Ireland

Preferred qualifications

• Ownership of quality strategy, not only test execution
• Experience introducing or scaling automation frameworks across teams
• Experience with Playwright for modern UI automation
• Strong point of view on test pyramid, shift-left strategy, and risk-based testing
• Comfort pushing back on scope, timelines, or release readiness to protect quality

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