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 of the Salesforce Performance Tester:
- 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 of the Salesforce Performance Tester:
- 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 for the Salesforce Performance Tester includes:
- 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.