Head of Salesforce Testing

1 day ago


Johannesburg, South Africa BlueSky Full time

**BlueSky is Africa's largest Salesforce partner, and is the 12th-fastest growing company in Africa**

Our ambition is to be the largest and best cloud technology consulting business on the African continent in the next 4 years.

Our Salesforce Business is our largest and most-established business unit, and we have an opportunity for a Head of Salesforce Testing to build and lead our Salesforce testing and QA teams and provide technical and interpersonal leadership to colleagues and customers.

(Please note this is a hybrid role, with an expectation of 2 in-office days per week)

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead and manage a team of Salesforce testers, including hiring, training, and performance management
- Work closely with project managers and business stakeholders to understand project requirements and ensure that testing is aligned with project timelines
- Develop and maintain test automation frameworks and scripts
- Monitor and report on testing progress and results, including defect tracking and resolution
- Ensure compliance with industry-standard testing best practices and processes

**Key Competencies**
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience in the functional area, and show competence in a clear, concise and tactful manner;
- Strong communication capabilities verbal and written with key stakeholders, management, clients, peers and team;
- Proficient understanding of Salesforce solutions and the consulting business processes and functions;
- Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressures, ambiguity, inevitable constraints of time and resources and the fluidity of project uniqueness and change;
- Ability to negotiate consensus amongst diverse groups and impact the activities of others not in own reporting structure;
- Conceptual, analytical thinking and decision making skills
- A strong EQ capability - need to have the trust of your colleagues as well as respect as a leader
- Difficult conversations - be able to initiate difficult conversations
- Build strong relationships with clients and colleague alike - work with clients and ensure a positive sentiment regarding BlueSky services
- Positive influence with their team members in an influencing manner, to guide and mentor them with their work as well as career aspirations
- A systematic and organised approach to working with highly developed ‘finisher’ traits - owns the aspect of all work within the respective team
- Familiar with SLA and support processes and innovations within the Operations area, and can advise as well as support the creation and implementation of other SLA processes within the client base and prospects
- High energy & positivity
- Good management and leadership qualities

**Requirements**:

- Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in software testing, with at least 5 years of experience in a leadership role
- Proven experience in manual and automated testing, and leadership of testing teams
- Experience with test automation frameworks and tools, such as Selenium, Provar, or Apex Test Framework

**Highly preferential experience and skills**:

- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture, functionality, and customizations
- At least 3 years of Salesforce testing expeirence
- Experience with Salesforce testing methodologies, including unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing
- Experience with Salesforce speciofic testing tools and frameworks such as Copado and AutoRABIT
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly identify and resolve issues
- Salesforce certification, such as Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator, or Salesforce Certified Platform Developer, is preferred
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies is preferred

**Benefits**

Market related Cost to Company remuneration and benefits structure

Our team inspires progress in each other and in our customers through our relentless pursuit of excellence; you will work with leaders who promote learning and personal development. We offer competitive salaries, bonus incentives, benefits, flexible hours, and mentoring.

**Our Culture**

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And we want to go fast

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Are you ready to shoot for the moon?


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