Role: Salesforce Test Engineer REF 101742
Contract Length: Until 30/09/26
Location: Remote with occasional travel to Swindon
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a Salesforce Test Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SALESFORCE TEST ENGINEER
- 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
This is an outline description of the key responsibilities and accountabilities involved in the job. This is not an exhaustive list and the post-holder might be expected to undertake any other duties across the wider directorate, commensurate with the Band and level of responsibility of this post, for which the post holder has the necessary experience and/or training.
- SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SALESFORCE TEST ENGINEER
- Educated to Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience
- Salesforce Admin 201 or significant recent Salesforce project exposure required
- 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.
- Functional testing. You can design and execute a wide range of testing techniques and communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You know how to make decisions on the environment for testing and coach others. You can identify defects, alerting the business to them, and you can help prioritise them based on defect severity.
- Non-functional testing. You can design and execute a wide range of non-functional testing techniques and communicate non-functional test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You can make decisions on running types of non-functional testing. You know how to coach and mentor others. You can identify defects, alerting the business to them, and help prioritise them based on defect severity.
- Technical breadth. You have a good working knowledge of different tools and techniques and can train others. You can advise others on testing techniques and frameworks. You know how to research, plan and train others within the team.
- Test analysis. You can think creatively, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to a larger team. You know how to lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes. You can drive the collection of information and creation of recommendations for improvements. You can absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions.
- Strong task planning and delivery skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently.
- Care, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Be able to take personal accountability for progress and reporting.
- Self-awareness.
- High levels of professionalism.
- Self-motivated.
- Resilient under pressure.
If you are a Salesforce Test Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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