Salesforce Test Lead
Initial 6-month contract with view to extend
Hybrid: occasional office days based in Dublin
Rate: €550-600 depending on experience
No sponsorship available
As a Salesforce Test Lead, you'll work alongside highly skilled professionals, ensuring the quality and integrity of Salesforce solutions in the financial services industry. If you're a detail-oriented leader with a passion for quality assurance and a deep understanding of Salesforce, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development and execution of comprehensive test strategies and plans for Salesforce solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
- Collaborate closely with solution architects, developers and business stakeholders to define testable requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and maintain robust test automation frameworks and scripts for Salesforce, covering Apex, LWC, Aura and complex configurations, including Health Cloud specific functionalities.
- Oversee the entire testing lifecycle, including unit, integration, system, performance, and user acceptance testing, for Salesforce implementations, with a focus on industry-specific clouds like Health Cloud.
- Conduct defect management, including logging, tracking and verifying fixes and provide recommendations for continuous quality improvements.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality testing documentation, including test plans, test cases, defect reports and test summaries.
- Manage client relationships, effectively communicating testing progress, risks and quality metrics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Drive innovation by exploring new testing tools, methodologies and best practices for Salesforce, enhancing quality assurance processes.
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- A minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in Salesforce testing and quality assurance, preferably within the financial services industry, demonstrating a track record of successful project delivery.
- Proficiency in testing Salesforce technologies including Apex, LWC and Aura components, and experience with Salesforce Health Cloud.
- Extensive experience with Salesforce configuration, complex Salesforce customisations and integrations from a testing perspective.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify complex issues, define root causes and provide innovative testing solutions.
- A strategic mindset to align testing efforts with business goals and drive continuous quality improvement.
- Experience working with the Agile methodology in a testing capacity.
Ideally, you will also have:
- Salesforce certifications (e.g., Certified Salesforce Administrator, Platform Developer I/II, or relevant testing certifications), especially those related to Health Cloud, are highly desirable.
- Familiarity with Agile, DevOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines as they relate to automated testing and quality gates.
- Experience working in or with international teams, understanding of global markets, and the ability to navigate cultural differences.
- Experience in negotiating with and managing third-party vendors and service providers related to testing tools or services.
- A good understanding of modern testing technologies and architectural patterns. Familiarity with cloud services, cybersecurity, and infrastructure testing is desirable.
- An understanding of financial services operations, regulatory requirements, and emerging FinTech trends from a quality assurance standpoint.