Salesforce Automation QA Analyst

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role We are looking for an experienced Salesforce Automation Engineer to join our IT QA Team. This role focuses on ensuring the quality of Salesforce and coordinated systems through robust QA automation and functional testing. The position is responsible for building, maintaining, and implementing automated and manual tests, collaborating closely with Agile teams, and improving overall test reliability, coverage, and efficiency across UI, API, and end-to-end workflows. What You Will Be Doing Build, develop, and maintain comprehensive automation test strategies, test plans, and test cases for Salesforce applications. Your Primary responsibility is to strengthen the Salesforce quality engineering capability by crafting and implementing scalable, enterprise-grade automation frameworks that support reliable and predictable releases. You will build, improve, and maintain automation solutions using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and Cucumber BDD to ensure comprehensive test coverage across UI, business workflows, and integrations. Will automate test suites into our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and DevOps standard methodologies, enabling continuous testing and accelerating time to market. Validating sophisticated Salesforce business processes and user experiences through structured functional and automated testing strategies that support operational perfection. Should ensure robust system integrations by implementing API automation using REST Assured and conducting endpoint validation through Postman. Should apply strong testing fundamentals—including regression optimization, defect workflow management, risk-based test develop, and RCA—to continuously elevate product quality. Able to demonstrate JIRA to drive clear defect tracking, execution reporting, and multi-functional visibility while encouraging accountability and continuous improvement. Should collaborate with Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle and support scalable digital transformation initiatives. What You Bring You bring 3–5 years of dynamic experience in Automation Quality Assurance, with hands-on expertise in Salesforce testing and validation of critical business workflows. You bring strong proficiency in Java and confirmed experience building and maintaining scalable automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber BDD. You bring practical experience integrating automated test execution within CI/CD environments, preferably GitHub Actions, along with a confirmed understanding of DevOps pipeline configuration. Strong experience in API testing using REST Assured and Postman, with the ability to validate service reliability and integration stability. Shown understanding in software testing principles, including test strategy development, regression planning, defect lifecycle management, and root cause analysis. You bring experience using JIRA or similar tools for defect tracking, reporting, and quality metrics clarity. Should have strong written and verbal communication skills in English and collaborate successfully within multi-functional, globally distributed teams. Most importantly, you bring a quality-first demeanor, a dedication to continuous improvement, and to operate with ownership, accountability, and a focus on delivering high-im ... (truncated, view full listing at source)