REMOTE - Salesforce QA Engineer

100% REMOTE - Salesforce Automation QA Engineer

Overview:

Our client, a national Mortgage company is looking for an experience Salesforce QA Engineer to join a business critical project! This position is a 6 month contract opportunity to extend. It is 100% Remote, EST/CST preferred.

Summary:

The Salesforce QA Engineer is a member of a QA team with primary responsibility for ensuring a quality product is delivered to the organization. This person will be part of an agile scrum team and work alongside developers, product owners and scrum masters. This person will also be working closely with the QA Lead /Associate Director to define test strategy and process. This position is responsible for the design, development and execution of manual and automated test cases. The position is also responsible for assisting in the creation of reporting metrics associated with the testing.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in design reviews to assist with identifying test strategies and scope
• Review and analysis of requirements and/or user stories
• Develop and maintain test scenarios and test cases to validate usability, functionality, and data integrity (both manual and automated test cases)
• Create test data that flows through in a system integrated environment
• Develop automated test cases using selenium and java coding and/or java scripting
• Test execution of manual and automated test cases
• Isolate, report and verify software defects
• API & Webservices testing including the automation of the API
• Work in a distributed and varied environment including HTML, web services, client/server
• Review and validate that test data and test execution results accurately reflect business requirements
• Maintenance of regression suite of test cases
• Communicate test results and highlight any potential quality risks

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s Degree from a Four (4) year College or University.

• 5+ years of experience in automated QA testing

• Working knowledge of Software Quality Assurance practices such as managing defects, defining test strategies/plans/cases and the different types of software testing
• More than 5 years Salesforce Platform Experience. Experience should include Salesforce Sales and Servicing applications
• Experience Building Automated Tests for the Salesforce Platform
• Ability to analyze business and/or functional requirement documents for testing purposes
• Experience with a test management system such as Jira, Zephyr and Confluence
• Basic working knowledge of test case automation using Selenium and Java/JavaScripting is required
• Proficient in testing and automating REST APIs and Web Services
• Intermediate understanding of web application program and structure (e.g. Web services, Soap/REST, EJB, HTML, JS/CSS)
• An intermediate understanding of System Development methodologies (BDD, ADD) is required
• Knowledge of SOAP/XML, SQL is preferred
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Ability to prioritize workload, work effectively on several projects and concurrent tasks, and be able to meet project timelines
• Ability/willingness to learn quickly and handle new challenges and changes
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to write routine reports and correspondence for internal and external customer communications
• Ability to work harmoniously in a team environment as well as independently with minimal direction