Salesforce Test Engineer

Salesforce Test Engineer
Contract Length: 5 Months
Location: Remote with occasional travel to Swindon/Wiltshere
Public Sector Experience highly desirable
IR35 In Scope
Excellent Rates

*Urgent 5 Month contract - Role hiring now!*

This is a *Remote* based role with an excellent immediate start within a Public Sector organisation working on *Leading commercial strategy and end-to-end procurement activity*

An excellent remote working opportunity working for a major governmental organisation based in Wiltshere (South West England) as a Test Engineer specialized in Salesforce projects. If you have the knowledge and commercial experience, please share your CV & motivation for immediate consideration to Javaid. We are shortlisting for client interviews now.

As a Senior (Salesforce) Test Engineer, you will influence quality at all stages of the project, driving continuous improvement and getting involved with requirements, analysis, design, testing and release of enterprise level software applications. You will work to ensure the successful delivery of the major platform work items from different IT projects through robust integration and test processes.
The ideal candidate for this role will be able to demonstrate experience with Acceptance testing (Including UAT), Exploratory Testing and Automation of functional and non-functional requirements. You will need to have an aptitude to pick up new skills quickly and a desire to provide coaching and mentoring to other testers within the team and other areas of the organisation.

Experience of Salesforce projects and SFDC platform experience is required for this role.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
A senior (Salesforce) test engineer has similar responsibilities to a test engineer but at a more complex level and on a greater scale. At this level you will:

• 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.
• Mentor and advise other team members in testing practices
• Propose solutions to clients, when needed
• 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.
• Provide feature demos to the stakeholders

Qualifications:
Essential -

• Educated to Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience
• Salesforce Admin 201 or significant recent Salesforce project exposure required
  

Desirable -

• ITIL Foundation desirable
• ISTQB Test Foundation desirable
• Certified Agile Tester Certification desirable

Experience:
Essential -

• Working Experience of Playwright and other test frameworks - (BDD, cucumber)
• API testing 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
• Experience in testing JavaScript and React-based applications.
• Experience in functional and integration testing of Salesforce applications.
• 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
• Passionate about IT and new technologies
• Working experience of Loans and Investment app's
• Working experience of Conga templates
• Working experience of FinDock & GoCardless payment gateway.
  

Desirable -

• Experience of delivering digital projects is a benefit
• Java or JavaScript (medium knowledge of reading and Scripting)
• Apex (medium knowledge of reading and Scripting)

Please send your CV or call Javaid to discuss further.
We are an equal opportunities employment agency and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

We champion differences in technology recruitment and work with clients who actively wish to diversify their talent force - ALL applicants are welcome to apply.