Salesforce Quality Engineering Lead

Northern Trust

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$83,100–$141,300 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
11 days ago
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Below market

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About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management

Northern Trust currently has 107 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Salesforce Quality Engineering Lead

The Salesforce Quality Engineering Lead will oversee and coordinate testing activities across the Salesforce platform. This role involves leading QA resources to establish consistent testing standards, defining test strategies, and managing defect tracking and release-readiness activities. The successful candidate will coordinate manual, automated, API, integration, and end-to-end testing while driving the platform-level adoption of Copado Robotic Testing. Key responsibilities include ensuring the quality of Salesforce configuration, Flows, security, Apex, Lightning components, and system integrations. Required skills include extensive experience in manual and automated testing, API validation, and database tools like Oracle SQL Developer or Microsoft Visual Studio. The role operates within an Agile and Scrum framework to solve complex quality concerns and manage testing risks across various Salesforce projects and releases.

What you'll do

  • Lead and coordinate QA activities and testers across multiple Salesforce projects and releases.
  • Define test strategies, test plans, test cases, regression suites, and overall testing standards.
  • Coordinate manual, automated, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing activities.
  • Manage the platform-level implementation and adoption of Copado Robotic Testing (CRT).
  • Identify opportunities to automate critical business processes and increase reusable regression coverage.
  • Manage defect tracking, triage, retesting, and release-readiness activities.
  • Validate Salesforce configuration, Flows, security, Apex, Lightning components, and system integrations.
  • Provide clear visibility into testing progress, defects, risks, and overall release quality.

What we're looking for

  • Strong experience in Salesforce quality assurance and testing, including leading or coordinating QA teams.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in manual and automated testing, including test planning, execution, and regression testing.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience with API testing, including validation of system integrations and end-to-end workflows.
  • Good understanding of Salesforce objects, data relationships, security, automation, configuration, and custom development.
  • Experience working with database/query or development tools such as Oracle SQL Developer or Microsoft Visual Studio.
  • Experience with Copado Robotic Testing (CRT) is strongly preferred (preferred).
  • Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder, Platform Developer, or Copado certifications are a plus (preferred).
  • Work Authorization.

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