Salesforce Performance Tester - 170543

Piper Companies; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Salesforce Performance Tester to support a large-scale initiative within the federal technology sector.

You will develop performance test strategies for Salesforce Service Cloud and Experience Cloud, build scripts with JMeter and LoadRunner, and validate performance across UI, APIs, and integrations.

Collaboration with developers and cross-functional teams is essential to ensure scalable, reliable Salesforce environments and thorough testing documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• 8+ years hands-on performance testing, including at least 4 years in Salesforce.
• Experience with large Salesforce projects and Salesforce Experience Cloud terminology.
• Proven automation test script development from scratch.
• Experience with CI/CD integration and QA test management.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance test strategies for Salesforce Service Cloud and Experience Cloud.
• Build and execute tests using JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Simulate loads for UI, portals, APIs, and batch processes; document defects.
• Analyze performance metrics for Apex, SOQL, REST/SOAP APIs, and LWC.
• Collaborate with developers and architects to optimize performance across systems.
• Conduct peer reviews of test cases and testing documentation.

Skills

Performance testing

Salesforce Service Cloud

Salesforce Experience Cloud

JMeter

LoadRunner

Selenium WebDriver

Cucumber

Jenkins

GitHub

QA test management

CI/CD integration

REST/SOAP/API testing

GraphQL API testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

LoadRunner

Selenium WebDriver

Cucumber

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Salesforce Performance Tester to support a large-scale initiative within the federal technology sector. The Salesforce Performance Tester will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and responsiveness of enterprise Salesforce environments across Service Cloud and Experience Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance test strategies tailored to Salesforce Service Cloud and Experience Cloud applications.
• Build and execute performance test scripts using tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Simulate user loads for Salesforce UI, Experience Cloud portals, API integrations, and batch/async processes.
• Validate system response times, throughput, latency, governor limits, platform events, and async queue responses while documenting performance defects with detailed reproduction steps and logs.
• Capture, analyze, and report performance metrics related to Apex, SOQL queries, flows, REST/SOAP APIs, and LWC components.
• Evaluate integration performance across external APIs, AWS/Snowflake interactions, and authentication workflows.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and cross-functional teams to optimize performance across code, configurations, integrations, caching, and monitoring.
• Validate scalability for high-traffic portals, high-volume APIs, seasonal surges, and enterprise releases.
• Conduct peer reviews of test cases and testing documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Salesforce Experience Cloud Consultant certification preferred.
• 8+ years of hands-on performance testing experience, including at least 4 years dedicated to Salesforce performance testing.
• Experience supporting large, complex Salesforce projects with proficiency in Salesforce navigation and terminology.
• Expertise in QA test management for both functional and non-functional testing, including UI, backend, component, and integration test suites.
• Hands-on experience developing automation test scripts from scratch.
• Proficiency with tools such as LoadRunner (Performance Center), Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Jenkins, and GitHub.
• Experience creating testing documentation including Test Summary Reports and traceability matrices.
• Background analyzing performance reports to identify application, infrastructure, and network bottlenecks.
• Experience performance-testing Salesforce-to-Snowflake ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Knowledge of REST, SOAP, and GraphQL API performance testing.
• Experience integrating automated performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to various audiences.

Compensation

• Salary range: $130,000-$140,000 annual salary (depending on experience)
• Full benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO, Paid Holidays, Sick Leave as required by law

This job opens for applications on 7/27/2025. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.