Quality Assurance Tester (Salesforce)

We are looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Tester to support Salesforce initiatives in Minnesota. This opportunity is ideal for a senior testing specialist who can guide quality strategy, drive thorough validation efforts, and work closely with technical and business teams to confirm solutions perform as intended. The role focuses on safeguarding release quality across Salesforce applications, integrations, and related enterprise processes through disciplined testing and clear risk reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Lead comprehensive testing efforts across Salesforce projects, covering planning, scenario design, execution, defect tracking, regression coverage, and release validation.

• Create and maintain organized test documentation in Azure DevOps, including test plans, test suites, and traceability records that align requirements to validation activities.

• Work closely with product leaders, analysts, developers, architects, and business stakeholders to build risk-based test coverage for functional and technical changes.

• Perform a wide range of validation activities such as functional, integration, smoke, exploratory, end-to-end, regression, and user acceptance testing.

• Record, prioritize, and retest defects using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or comparable platforms, while communicating issue impact and resolution status clearly.

• Support Agile delivery by contributing to sprint ceremonies, release readiness reviews, deployment planning, and go/no-go recommendations based on quality findings.

• Validate Salesforce configurations and custom development, including objects, flows, Apex components, Lightning experiences, permissions, security structures, APIs, and connected systems.

• Coordinate test execution across multiple environments, deployment cycles, and CI/CD workflows, including post-release smoke checks to confirm production stability.

• Help expand automated test coverage by identifying suitable opportunities for automation and partnering with development teams to improve application testability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in quality assurance, software testing, or enterprise application validation.
• At least 7 years of experience in QA or software testing, including substantial work within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven background testing Salesforce solutions, with knowledge of platform features, customizations, integrations, and security considerations.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Test Plans and structured test management practices.
• Experience using Jira or similar systems for issue tracking, defect lifecycle management, and project coordination.
• Solid understanding of Agile delivery models, Scrum practices, CI/CD concepts, release management, and regression testing methods.
• Demonstrated ability to test APIs, integrations, workflows, data movement, and cross-functional business processes with strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present testing results, risks, and recommendations to varied audiences.