Remote Senior Salesforce Test Program Lead

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Salesforce Test Program Manager to lead program-level testing across Salesforce tracks, applications, integrations, and QA across platforms. You will collaborate with Test Leads, delivery teams, business stakeholders, and program leadership to establish consistent testing practices and release readiness.

This role emphasizes governance, strategy, metrics, and consolidated quality reporting, with cross-track dependency management and risk handling.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of extensive experience leading enterprise-level Salesforce testing across multiple workstreams, applications, integrations, or releases.
• Strong experience establishing test strategies, governance frameworks, operating cadences, quality standards, and program-level testing processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple Test Leads and coordinate System Integration Testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing, User Acceptance Testing, and release-readiness activities.
• Experience with Salesforce test automation tools, test-management platforms, test metrics, defect governance, and consolidated quality reporting.
• Strong program-management capabilities, including cross-track dependency management, risk and issue management, stakeholder communication, and critical-path testing coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing across multiple Salesforce tracks, applications, integrations, and Test Leads, ensuring alignment with program objectives and release timelines.
• Establish and manage the program-level test strategy, governance model, operating cadence, quality standards, and standardized testing processes.
• Drive System Integration Testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing, User Acceptance Testing, defect management, and overall release-readiness activities.
• Manage cross-track testing dependencies, risks, issues, and critical-path activities while coordinating resolution across business, development, and testing teams.
• Provide consolidated program-level quality reporting covering test execution, defect trends, risks, RAG status, key quality metrics, and release-readiness recommendations.

Skills

Salesforce testing

Test program management

Quality engineering

Stakeholder communication

Risk and issue management

Test governance

Tools

Salesforce test automation tools

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Salesforce Test Program Manager to lead program-level testing across Salesforce tracks, applications, integrations, and QA across platforms. You will collaborate with Test Leads, delivery teams, business stakeholders, and program leadership to establish consistent testing practices and release readiness.

This role emphasizes governance, strategy, metrics, and consolidated quality reporting, with cross-track dependency management and risk handling.