Salesforce Quality Engineer
BigCommerce27 days ago
Remote, MexicoSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks for Apex unit tests, Salesforce Lightning UI automation, API testing, and end-to-end regression suites.
- Integrate automated testing into GitHub Actions and Salesforce DX deployment workflows with quality gates for production releases.
- Own test strategy across the software development lifecycle, including acceptance criteria, test plans, execution, defect triage, and sign-off.
- Investigate, isolate, categorize, and prevent defects through reproducible minimum viable test cases.
- Identify and close coverage gaps across Apex classes, flows, integrations, and user interfaces.
- Build and maintain reliable test data strategies across sandbox environments.
- Partner with developers during code reviews to identify testability issues, missing coverage, and brittle patterns.
- Maintain quality dashboards covering coverage metrics, defect trends, error rates, and deployment health.
- Contribute to story refinement and agile ceremonies while advocating for testable acceptance criteria.
- Champion quality practices across developers, architects, administrators, and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software quality engineering experience, including meaningful experience in a Salesforce environment.
- Automation-first experience with test code, exploratory testing, edge cases, and user acceptance testing support.
- Proficiency developing Apex test classes, including understanding of governor limits and test data isolation.
- Hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright, or comparable UI automation frameworks for Salesforce Lightning interfaces.
- Proficiency with Jira for defect and sprint management.
- Experience with Postman, SoapUI, or similar API testing tools and testing REST and SOAP endpoints.
- Familiarity with Git-based source control, Salesforce DX, and sandbox-to-production release processes.
- Strong defect analysis, debugging, communication, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and quality-metrics skills.
- Experience with development best practices, testing methodologies, continuous integration, and deployment and release management tools such as GitHub.
- Ability to define, measure, and report on test objectives, coverage metrics, error rates, and thresholds and hold engineers accountable for technical quality.
- Salesforce Platform Developer or Administrator certification is preferred.
- Quality or testing certification such as ISTQB is preferred.
- Familiarity with the Salesforce Lightning Design System and testing LWC components at unit and integration levels is preferred.
- Experience testing Salesforce integrations such as Marketo-Salesforce synchronization, CTI platforms, or external REST APIs is preferred.
- Exposure to Salesforce performance or load testing and governor-limit concerns under volume is preferred.
- Experience in a high-velocity SaaS or e-commerce environment is preferred.
- Excellent English communication skills are required.
About BigCommerce
BigCommerce, powered by Commerce (Nasdaq: CMRC), is the flexible enterprise ecommerce platform built for growth without compromise. Our open architecture makes it easy for brands and B2B sellers to scale, adapt, and connect to the tools that solve their unique business challenges — without being locked into rigid systems. Learn more at bigcommerce.com If you are interested in exploring career opportunities with us, we invite you to follow the Commerce LinkedIn Jobs page for the latest updates on open positions. #BigCommerce #PoweredByCommerce