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Lead Quality Engineer - Agile Quadrant 3

salesforce.com, inc.
parental leave, 401(k)
United States, California, San Francisco
1 Market Street (Show on map)
Oct 04, 2025
To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. ***Must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) living on U.S. soil who does not hold dual citizenship with the ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role. MissionForce is seeking an exceptional Quality Engineering lead to lead Q3 engineering for our mission-critical platform, overseeing both MissionForce proprietary applications and Salesforce Public Sector Solutions on the Government Cloud platform. This role serves the US Department of Defense, US Federal Government agencies, and Intelligence Community, demanding a strong quality leader who will provide technology leadership and drive engineering excellence across our government-focused SaaS applications. You will lead quality practices across teams that deliver transformative solutions across Salesforce Government Cloud Plus, Government Cloud Plus - Defense, and current/future Top Secret authorized environments. This position requires deep understanding of the Salesforce platform ecosystem and government-specific applications including Benefit Management, License & Permit Management, Grantmaking, Emergency Response Management, and Inspections, while ensuring organizational compliance with FedRAMP High, DoD Impact Level 4/6, and other critical frameworks. As the quality lead, you will be responsible for defining quality standards and establishing an engineering culture and practices that places quality at the forefront and enable MissionForce to deliver mission-critical solutions at scale. As a Lead member on the Salesforce Quality Engineering Team, you will use agile methodologies to plan, coordinate, and lead key engagements that result in automated tests and guidance to product teams. We are looking for a critical thinker with a natural curiosity to learn our customers' business, use skills to extract user scenarios from conversations and data and then translate your findings into automatable test plans which either you or a member of the team will automate. A successful team member should have a strong quality approach and will ensure MissionForce users receive high quality work. You will constantly find opportunities to share information and collaborate with other teams for the benefit of our customers, partners, and each other! This position requires onsite presence in the San Francisco office. Key Responsibilities: Independently design and deliver automation and automation frameworks for products with a quality mindset. Master the Salesforce development process, culture, and codebase to drive improvements. Create end-to-end, cross-cloud impacting, integration automation (API and UI) with complex organizations. Provide oversight through code and design reviews for features delivered by other developers within the scrum team. Participate in a Test Design Review Board for integration test plans within and across clouds, focusing on functional, business, complex scenarios, high-impact projects, usability, and accessibility. Master cloud requirements (e.g., underlying tech stack, business usage, implementation). Interface with product managers to understand real-life usage and build comprehensive test cases. Execute testing with complex organization setups and varied data shapes. Organize and drive cross-product testing initiatives. Monitor product and/or feature-level quality health metrics (testability, test health, test coverage, etc.). Work closely with senior developers, Product Managers, and UX to ensure features meet business and quality requirements. Provide leadership and coaching to members of your scrum team, and mentor individuals on other scrum teams. Advocate for customer enhancements. Requirements: 9-15 years in software engineering, quality assurance/engineering, usability, or business analysis. Highly proficient in Java, Python or Typescript and understanding of Object-Oriented Programming. Proficient in scripting functional/UI automation tests using Serenity BDD or Selenium Webdriver & Java. Proficiency with AWS, GCP, and/or Azure platforms. Demonstrated ownership and operation of multiple instances of a mission-critical service. Experience leveraging AI/LLM for testing and workflow automation (e.g., with CrewAI). Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum/Kanban. Familiarity with open-source projects including Serenity BDD, Selenium, GitHub, Postman, Swagger, Spinnaker, Docker, and Kubernetes. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with outstanding attention to detail. Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment. Ability to triage issues, adapt to changes, work effectively with teams, and multitask across multiple products and projects. Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. A related technical degree required. Desired Skills: Familiar with industry quality and usability practices. Familiar with Jenkins orchestration. Experience building test frameworks for creating applications on various platforms. Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what's possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world. 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This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education. In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $200,800 to $276,100.