Remote Senior Salesforce Test Program Lead

Cognizant; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks a Senior Salesforce Test Program Manager to lead program-level testing across Salesforce tracks, integrations, and platforms. You’ll partner with Test Leads, delivery teams, and leadership to establish governance, standards, and release readiness.

This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States. With 15+ years in enterprise Salesforce testing, you will drive end-to-end testing, risk and defect governance, and consolidated quality reporting to ensure

Qualifications

• 15+ years of enterprise Salesforce testing leadership across multiple workstreams.
• Experience establishing test strategies, governance, cadences, quality standards, and program-level testing processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple Test Leads and coordinate various testing activities and release readiness.
• Experience with Salesforce test automation tools, test-management platforms, metrics, defect governance, and consolidated quality reporting.
• Strong program-management capabilities, including cross-track dependency management, risk and issue management, stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing across Salesforce tracks, applications, integrations, and Test Leads.
• 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, UAT, defect management, and 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 leadership

Program management

Test governance

Stakeholder communication

Agile testing experience

Job description

Cognizant seeks a Senior Salesforce Test Program Manager to lead program-level testing across Salesforce tracks, integrations, and platforms. You’ll partner with Test Leads, delivery teams, and leadership to establish governance, standards, and release readiness.

This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States. With 15+ years in enterprise Salesforce testing, you will drive end-to-end testing, risk and defect governance, and consolidated quality reporting to ensure