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Templeton & Partners - Innovative & Inclusive Hiring Solutions

Quality Assurance Specialist

On site

London, United kingdom

Senior

Freelance

13-02-2026

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Skills

Communication Leadership Python Salesforce GitHub CI/CD Test Selenium Stakeholder Management Scrum CRM Risk Identification Regression git Team Leadership api testing Postman Agile SDLC Analytics CI/CD Pipelines

Job Specifications

Key Responsibilities

1. Test Leadership & Delivery

Lead end‑to‑end QA activities for Salesforce projects across functional, integration, regression, and UAT cycles.

Define test strategies, plans, and quality metrics aligned with project goals.

Own test governance, risk identification, and quality‑control checkpoints.

Coordinate with cross‑functional squads for timely QA sign‑offs.

2. Salesforce Testing

Perform hands‑on testing across Salesforce modules (Lightning, Custom Apps).

Validate integrations (REST, middleware such as Logic Apps, ADF), dataflows, APIs, and external system connectivity.

Ensure coverage of Lightning components, UI validations, workflow rules, validation rules, triggers, profiles, and permission sets.

3. Automation Strategy & Execution

Build and maintain automation frameworks using Python + Selenium.

Design scalable automation suites for regression, smoke, and integration tests.

Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub).

Evaluate new automation tools and recommend improvements.

4. Quality Practices & Governance

Champion QA best practices: test data management, traceability, defect triage, entry/exit criteria.

Establish and enforce coding and automation standards.

Drive continuous improvement via quality dashboards, metrics, and retrospectives.

5. Team Leadership

Guide and mentor QA engineers on Salesforce testing and automation.

Review test cases, automation code, and ensure adherence to standards.

Support hiring, onboarding, and capability uplift for the QA team.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

10+ years QA experience, with at least 3 years in Salesforce testing.

Strong hands‑on proficiency in Python, Selenium WebDriver, and automation frameworks.

Experience testing Salesforce Lightning, LWC, API testing (Postman/python), and data validation.

Knowledge of CI/CD, GitHub, Git branching, and version‑controlled automation pipelines.

Good understanding of SDLC/STLC, Agile, Scrum.

Nice to Have

Exposure to Einstein/CRM Analytics, Reports/Dashboards testing.

Familiarity with ETL validation and data migration testing.

Soft Skills

Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making capabilities.

Ability to lead distributed teams and manage multiple parallel testing streams.

About the Company

A global technology recruitment agency, we supply specialist IT Contractors, C-Suite Executives and entire tech teams under Statement of Work solutions, and provide tech jobs for IT professionals. Our team are 70% international and speak 25 languages. Across 8 offices in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich, Warsaw, Bangalore and New York we provide local candidates in 40 countries globally including Belgium, France, Spain, the Nordics, USA, India and China. Even in 2021, only 17% of European and 19% of UK tech special... Know more