Salesforce QA Lead

xelerate.tech; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly environment

International career opportunities

Attractive salary and benefits

Job summary

xelerate.tech is seeking a senior QA leader to own quality strategy for Salesforce initiatives, including CRT frameworks and Playwright automation. You will shape end-to-end automation for UI and Lightning components, and drive CI/CD integration for rapid, reliable releases.

You’ll guide a QA team, champion shift-left quality, and collaborate with architects, product owners, and release managers to ensure top-notch delivery across Service Cloud and Sales Cloud ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Proven QA leadership with hands-on Salesforce testing experience.
• Experience designing CRT frameworks and Playwright automation for Salesforce UI.
• Strong API testing and integration validation capabilities.
• Ability to drive CI/CD integration and quality gates across pipelines.
• Experience with performance, security, and accessibility testing.
• Mentor and grow QA teams, aligning talent with delivery goals.

Responsibilities

• Own QA strategy for Salesforce initiatives across Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and integrations.
• Design and implement CRT frameworks tailored to Salesforce processes.
• Architect Playwright-based end-to-end automation for UI and LWC/Visualforce.
• Enforce test automation standards and reusable libraries.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines and monitor release health metrics.
• Lead API testing across REST/SOAP and event-driven architectures.
• Drive performance, security, and accessibility testing as needed.
• Lead defect triage and root-cause analysis with SLAs for remediation.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, and release managers to shift-left quality.
• Mentor a high-performing QA team and shape hiring plans.

Skills

QA strategy

Salesforce testing

Playwright

API testing

CI/CD

Performance testing

Security testing

Leadership

Mentoring

English fluency

Education

ISTQB Advanced

Salesforce Administrator Certification

Salesforce Platform Developer I

Tools

Postman

Newman

REST-assured

Selenium

Cypress

Jest/Mocha

Job description

You will own quality strategy, test automation, and release quality for a Salesforce ecosystem, leading the design and implementation of Customer Relationship Testing (CRT) frameworks and Playwright-based automation suites. You will have a direct impact on release health, defect prevention, and the maturity of a shift-left quality culture across Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and custom integrations.

Your Role and Responsibilities:

• Own QA strategy for Salesforce initiatives, including Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and custom integrations.
• Lead the design and implementation of Customer Relationship Testing (CRT) frameworks tailored to Salesforce business processes and user journeys.
• Architect and maintain robust Playwright-based end-to-end automation suites for Salesforce UI and Lightning components.
• Define and enforce test automation standards, coding best practices, and reusable test libraries.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Copado) and monitor quality gates and release health metrics.
• Drive test strategy for APIs and integrations using REST/SOAP, middleware, and event-driven architectures.
• Plan and execute performance, regression, security, and accessibility testing as appropriate.
• Lead defect triage and root-cause analysis, ensuring high-quality delivery with clear SLAs for remediation.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, developers, and release managers to embed quality early in the delivery lifecycle (shift-left).
• Mentor and grow a high-performing QA team, defining individual development plans and hiring profiles.

Your Skills and Experiences:

• Solid, production-proven experience (15+ years) in QA with progressive leadership/management responsibilities, and a proven track record leading a QA function or team.
• Strong, hands-on experience with Salesforce testing approaches and frameworks, including Customer Relationship Testing (CRT) for end-to-end business flows.
• Proven expertise with Playwright for web UI automation, including test automation for Lightning Components (LWC), Visualforce, and Salesforce UI patterns.
• Solid understanding of Salesforce architecture, metadata model, managed packages, multi-org considerations, and common integration patterns.
• Strong API testing skills (REST, SOAP, GraphQL) with tools such as Postman, Newman, or REST-assured, plus experience with additional automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Jest, Mocha).
• Experience with test data management, synthetic data generation, and environment strategy for Salesforce sandboxes and scratch orgs.
• Familiarity with performance and security testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, OWASP) and observability/reporting tools (Allure, ReportPortal, Splunk, Datadog).
• Relevant certifications such as ISTQB Advanced, Salesforce Administrator/Platform Developer, or CI/CD-specific certifications are a plus.
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written, with an autonomous and problem-solving mindset.

What you can expect from us:

• Remote-friendly environment;
• Highly attractive salary and benefits;
• Great work-life balance and flexibility;
• You will be part of a company where commitment, quality, and continuous improvement are core principles of our culture;
• Highly engaged tech community;
• International career opportunities;
• Focus on individual development.

About us:

xelerate.tech is passionate about software, tech, and people. We aim to attract the most talented engineers to deliver high-quality software products through highly performant teams.