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SDET, Software Engineering, Lead

Salesforce
San Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 May 2025

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Software Quality Engineer - SDET -Lead

Note: By applying to the SDET - Software Quality Engineer posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring quality engineers will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

As a member of the Salesforce Quality Team, you will use agile methodologies to plan, coordinate, and lead customer engagements that result in automated tests and input to product teams. As a critical thinker with a natural curiosity to learn our customers’ business, you will use your skills to extract user scenarios from conversations and data and then translate your findings into automatable test plans which either you or a member of the team will automate. A successful team member should have a strong quality mindset and will ensure our customers receive high quality deliverables. You will be responsible for constantly finding opportunities to share information and collaborate with others for the benefit of our customers, partners, and each other.

From Sales Cloud to Marketing Cloud from IoT to Analytics, we have many opportunities available across various applications and platforms. Submit your resume here and we will reach out to you with opportunities that fit your background and interests.

Responsibilities:

  • Designs and delivers automaton and automation framework for products with a quality mindset

  • Provides guidance through code and design reviews for features delivered by other developers within their scrum team

  • Master the Salesforce development process, culture and code base, in order to improve it

  • Participate in a Test Design Review Board for integration test plans within and across clouds with focus on functional, business, complex scenarios, high impact projects, usability, and accessibility

  • Master cloud’s requirements (e.g. underlying techstack, business usage, implementation)

  • Create end-to-end, cross cloud-impacting, integration automation (API and UI) with complex orgs

  • Communicate with customers to understand real life usage, build test cases

  • Execute testing with complex org setup, varied data shapes

  • Organize and drive cross product testing

  • Advocate for customer enhancements

  • Monitor product and/or feature-level quality health metrics (testability, test health, test coverage, etc)

  • Works closely with senior developers, PM, and UX to ensure their features are delivered to meet business and quality requirements

  • Solve production issues

  • Provide leadership and coaching to others on your scrum teams, as well as providing mentoring to others who may be on other scrum teams.

Requirements:

  • A minimum of 12 years of software engineering, quality assurance/engineering, usability, or business analysis experience 

  • Highly proficient in Javascript and Java

  • Experience with automation (UI and Backend)

  • Grasp of Object Oriented Programming

  • Familiar with industry quality & usability practices

  • Proficient in writing functional automation (UI/API)

  • Self-motivator, who can work independently, able to learn quickly, meets deadlines and demonstrates problem-solving skills.

  • Effectively communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner and ability to coordinate cross-team efforts

  • Experience with agile development methodology

  • Experience with developer tools like git, Maven and Eclipse IDE

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