Salesforce Test Automation Engineer

On behalf of UKRI we are looking for a Salesforce Test Automation Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 9 month contract. Remote working with occasion travel to Swindon.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields - from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

As a Salesforce Test Engineer your main responsibilities will be to:

. Identify and raise awareness of risks arising from the automation test results.
. Identify new and implement existing test frameworks to improve confidence in testing.
. Work closely with salesforce developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level.
. Collaborate with analysts to make sure the required business scenarios are covered in the acceptance test scripts.
. Manage, plan and perform exploratory and automation activities throughout the project.
. Ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved in a defect tracking system.
. Own and manage the release process to deliver the product effectively.
. Work closely with developers, Junior test engineers and cross functional scrum team members to increase the test coverage and reduce the test bottlenecks.
. Update and maintain regression suites as the products evolve.
. Work collaboratively and effectively in a DevOps way of working environment.

Essential:

. Overall strong testing experience.
. Salesforce experience.
. Working experience of Playwright and other test frameworks - (BDD, cucumber).
. API testing experience with Rest Assured or Postman.
. Be able to plan and prioritise all testing activities in alignment to operational objectives and to agreed deliverables.
. Understand a variety of testing methods including the current/latest testing methods and tools.
. Knowledge of software best practices like test-driven development (TDD), behavioral driven development (BDD), continuous integration and continuous deployment.
. Great communication skills - you will be speaking with and presenting to your team members and the clients.
. Experience working in an Agile environment.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".