Vice President, Salesforce QA Engineer

About the Role

BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset. We deliver world-class service to wealth advisors, family offices, endowments, and foundations.

We are looking for an experienced Salesforce Quality Assurance professional to join our team. In this role, you will perform test planning and execution across declarative and programmatic Salesforce features, including flows, validations, security configurations, integrations, and managed packages. You will design and execute comprehensive test strategies for key integrations within our Salesforce environment, identifying risks early in the development lifecycle. Success requires strong Salesforce platform knowledge, a detail-oriented mindset, deep understanding of business processes, and a passion for improving quality through structured processes, automation, and continuous collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans tailored to Salesforce-specific functionalities that use Flows, Triggers, Apex Jobs, and others.
• Perform integration, API, regression, functional testing; perform data analysis and validation testing.
• Ensure the correct implementation and integration of Salesforce and an external system using MySQL DB, with a strong focus on data synchronization and testing event-driven architecture.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for Salesforce applications and integrations using Copado Robotic Testing tooling.
• Partner with developers, product owners, and business analysts to ensure a comprehensive understanding of testing requirements and business processes.
• Collaborate with the team to improve documentation and testing processes.
• Communicate testing progress, challenges, and resolutions to the team in a clear and timely manner.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment with experience supporting a multi-org Salesforce setup.
• Perform other testing-related tasks as required, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Math, or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• At least 7 years of experience in software testing, with a focus on Salesforce applications preferred.
• Strong foundation in Apex and familiarity with Salesforce-specific automations (e.g., Flows, Triggers), Apex Jobs, and event-driven software.
• Proficient in Salesforce query languages (SOQL and SOSL) and API technologies (SOAP and REST).
• Strong experience in integration testing.
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Java).
• Familiarity with quality metrics, including escaped defects, reliability, repeatability, and resiliency.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to build partnerships with business teams and advocate for software quality principles.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and ability to navigate relational databases.
• Experience testing applications that use AWS, event-driven architecture, Python, and MySQL database.
• Understanding of REST applications and client-server interactions.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the financial or investment sector.
• Experience with Copado Robotic Testing or Provar.
• Certifications in quality-related frameworks (ISTQB, Salesforce, ScrumOrg).

Pay

For SF4-San Francisco (400 Howard Street) and SAU-Sausalito (3 Harbor Dr, Suite 204): USD $155,000.00 - USD $210,000.00.

For AT8-Atlanta (725 Ponce de Leon Ave NE): USD $140,000.00 - USD $195,000.00.

Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy, and total compensation may vary based on role, location, firm, department, and individual performance.

Benefits

• Strong retirement plan.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Comprehensive healthcare.
• Support for working parents.
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) to relax, recharge, and spend time with loved ones.

Schedule

BlackRock’s hybrid work model requires employees to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. New joiners can expect this hybrid model to accelerate learning and onboarding.