Our client is looking for a Salesforce Automation Tester to join their team. This person will be responsible for ensuring the quality, stability, and scalability of Salesforce solutions, with a strong emphasis on Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and integrated enterprise applications. This role leads quality assurance efforts across manual and automated testing, validates complex integrations and AppExchange solutions, and ensures robust test data management and seeding practices. The ideal candidate brings a qualityengineering mindset, strong Salesforce domain expertise, and hands-on experience with test automation and data management in multiorg environments in a manner consistent with FHLB, Chicago Software Testing Policies and Standards.
How you'll make an impact:
- Elevate Salesforce quality and release confidence by designing and executing robust manual and automated test strategies across Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and complex integrations ensuring stable, scalable, and defect-resistant releases.
- Accelerate delivery through automation and data excellence by strengthening Selenium/Playwright and API automation frameworks while implementing reliable test data creation, masking, and refresh strategies across multi-org Salesforce environments.
- Reduce production risk and defects by validating end-to-end workflows, Apex, flows, integrations, and data integrity using SOQL and API testing, while proactively identifying issues early in the Agile lifecycle.
- Strengthen QA maturity and team capability by mentoring junior QA engineers, driving best practices in quality engineering, and continuously improving QA processes, standards, and reporting through Azure DevOps.
What you can expect:
- Design, develop, and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test scripts for Salesforce Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud implementations
- Perform functional, regression, integration, system, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks using Selenium or other test automation tools
- Validate Salesforce configurations, customizations, workflows, flows, Apex code, and integrations with external systems
- Ensure data integrity and accuracy through effective test data management practices, including data creation, masking, and refresh strategies
- Identify, document, and track defects; collaborate with development teams to ensure timely resolution
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and provide quality-related input during sprint planning and backlog refinement
- Support release planning by executing smoke tests and production validation activities
- Mentor junior QA analysts and promote best practices in quality engineering and automation
- Continuously improve QA processes, standards, and tools to enhance test coverage and efficiency
- Track and report all results, problems and defects throughout the testing cycle using Azure DevOps.
- Represents testing team and participates in reviews of use cases and other requirements documentation to obtain an understanding of systems changes in preparation for test case development.
- Expected to provide valuable input on process improvements.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture, including standard objects, custom objects, flows, validation rules, and integrations.
- Experience creating comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for core Salesforce functionality.
- Proficiency in SOQL for backend data validation, troubleshooting, and verifying data integrity across objects.
- Hands on experience with API testing (REST) using Postman or similar tools.
- Ability to validate end to end workflows, data flows, and system integrations with upstream and downstream systems.
- Familiarity with Salesforce sandbox environments, release cycles, and deployment processes.
- Strong knowledge of defect logging and tracking using Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise Jira, or similar platforms.
- Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as C#, Java, Python
- Experience with test automation using Selenium or Playwright for Salesforce UI testing.
- Experience with API automation (e.g.,RestSharp, RestAssured).
- Experience working with BDD frameworks (e.g., SpecFlow, Cucumber).
- Skilled in data setup and data validation testing within Salesforce environments.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with product owners, developers, and business analysts.
- Ability to ensure thorough regression, functional, integration, and UAT test coverage for Salesforce releases.
What you ll bring:
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with at least 3+ years testing Salesforce applications
- Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture, including standard objects, custom objects, flows, validation rules, and integrations.
- Experience creating comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for core Salesforce functionality.
- Proficiency in SOQL for backend data validation, troubleshooting, and verifying data integrity across objects.
- Hands on experience with API testing (REST) using Postman or similar tools.
- Ability to validate end to end workflows, data flows, and system integrations with upstream and downstream systems.
- Familiarity with Salesforce sandbox environments, release cycles, and deployment processes.
- Strong knowledge of defect logging and tracking using Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.
- Experience with object-oriented programming languages such as C#, Java, Python
- Experience with test automation using Selenium or Playwright for Salesforce UI testing.
- Experience with API automation (e.g.,RestSharp, RestAssured).
- Experience working with BDD frameworks (e.g., SpecFlow, Cucumber).
- In-depth understanding of Salesforce architecture, data model, and security concepts
- Knowledge of Salesforce-specific testing challenges, including multi-org environments and complex integrations
- Familiarity with API testing tools and techniques (e.g., REST/SOAP validation)
- Strong understanding of test data management concepts and best practices
- Ability to analyze complex business requirements and translate them into effective test scenarios
- Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Skilled in data setup and data validation testing within Salesforce environments.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with product owners, developers, and business analysts.
- Ability to ensure thorough regression, functional, integration, and UAT test coverage for Salesforce releases.
- Salesforce Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud testing
- Test automation (Selenium or equivalent tools)
- Manual and automated test case design and execution using Selenium, Playwrite or similar
- Test data management, data flows and data seeding validation.
- Defect tracking and test management tools with Azure DevOps and GitHub Enterprise
- SQL and basic scripting for test validation
- Excellent communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills
Salary/Rate: $115,000 - $135,000 (depends on experience level).
Benefits: Medical, PTO, 401(k), and more.
About Us
Peterson Technology Partners (PTP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a transparent, inclusive, and human-centered hiring experience.
For more than 27 years, PTP has operated as a premier Information Technology (IT) staffing, consulting, and recruiting firm built on trust, long-term partnerships, and technical excellence.
Based in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, IL, our team of more than 500 employees and consultants is dedicated to helping every client make the best hiring decisions possible.
As part of that commitment, we believe in providing clear information about how our hiring technologies work and how your data is used. The following section outlines our AI-assisted interview process and your rights as a candidate.
AI-Assisted Interview Experience (Pete & Gabi Rebecca):
To provide a consistent, fair, and flexible experience for all candidates, we use AI-assisted tools including our proprietary platform Pete & Gabi Rebecca to support parts of the interview process. These tools help us:
- transcribe interviews,
- summarize candidate responses,
- generate job-related insights
- streamline communication and scheduling.
Please note that
- AI does NOT make hiring decisions.
- All decisions are made by our human recruiters, hiring managers, or client partners.
- The AI does not evaluate facial expressions, emotions, or physical traits.
- It is used only to support fairness, consistency, and efficiency.
If you prefer a non-AI interview format, we will gladly provide an alternative.
Technical or Case Interviews (Role-Dependent):
For certain positions, you may participate in:
- a technical interview
- a coding challenge
- a case study
- a client-specific assessment.
We will always explain what to expect in advance so you can prepare with confidence.
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Every candidate s profile including interviews, conversations, and assessments is reviewed by experienced recruiters and hiring leaders.
AI insights may assist with organization and evaluation, but final decisions are always human-driven.
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- Request a non-AI interview path
- Ask how your data is being used
- Request access to transcripts or interview recordings
- Request deletion of your AI-recorded interview
- Receive clear, timely communication
Our goal is to ensure you feel respected, informed, and supported throughout your experience
Our Commitment:
For more than 27 years, PTP has focused on putting people first candidates, consultants, employees, and clients.
We re committed to a hiring process that is:
- transparent
- compliant
- equitable
- powered by innovative technology that enhances not replaces human judgment.
Welcome to the future of hiring at Peterson Technology Partners.
We re excited to learn more about you
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Peterson Technology Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
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