Quality Assurance Lead-Manager

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The Quality Assurance Lead (QA Lead) is a key position within the Quality Assurance team working in the Professional Services division at Salesforce. The QA Lead works collaboratively with various project teams across multiple customer implementations. This role works under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgment to ensure the appropriate level of quality is incorporated into our customer implementations. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach, exhibiting excellent problem solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities :

• Lead multiple customer implementations in a Test Lead capacity using onshore/offshore models.

• Responsible for creating Test artifacts including Test Strategy, Test Execution Status Reports, and Defect Reports.

• Works closely with internal and customer teams to understand business requirements, coordinate testing activities, and communicate test results.

• Lead test team in translating business requirements to test cases and test scripts

• Manage a Team of QA Analysts through all Phases of Testing - (Functional, System, Integration and User Acceptance) on a project

• Lead internal defect triage calls

• Assist customer with UAT planning as needed

• Assist with UAT defect triage calls

• Liaison to customer Quality Assurance Lead

• Maintain and communicate QA metrics to internal and customer stakeholders via status/metrics reports

• Document and communicate QA-related risks to Project Management

• Interact, communicate and follow through with development & customer teams throughout testing phase

• Ability to adapt to customer processes and integrate them into day to day work as needed without compromising best practices and quality

Position Requirements :

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in a test lead capacity

• Must have a minimum of 3+ years hands-on experience with Salesforce platform.

• Strong understanding of SQA methodologies.

• Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology and working experience in an Agile environment is a must.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills required.

• Great attention to detail and ability to identify, isolate and document defects

• Experience in large-scale software deployments .

• SCRUM & Salesforce certification(s) a big plus

• Understanding of test automation framework design models and best practices a big plus

• Ability to adapt to short sprint cycles (2 weeks)

• Experience in the full software lifecycles from design to deployment

• Excellent communication skills required and able to work independently

• Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results

For Colorado-based roles: Minimum annual salary of $83,700. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.getsalesforcebenefits.com/

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