Salesforce QA Engineer – Public Sector
FormativGroup, LLC.
Salesforce Practice • Remote – U.S. with Potential Travel – Project-Based
Is this you
Are you a Salesforce QA professional who takes pride in delivering secure, reliable technology solutions that make a meaningful impact in the Public Sector? If you bring hands-on Government Cloud experience, strong testing and automation expertise, and a passion for quality across complex Salesforce environments, we'd love to connect with you!
About the role
The Salesforce QA Engineer role is focused on ensuring the quality, security, stability, and reliability of enterprise Salesforce solutions supporting Public Sector and Government Cloud initiatives.
As part of FormativGroup's Salesforce Practice, you'll support complex implementations across Government Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud, helping government organizations deliver dependable, secure, and high-performing technology solutions.
You'll own and execute quality assurance activities across the Salesforce delivery lifecycle, combining manual testing, automated testing, integration validation, defect management, and release readiness. Working closely with developers, business analysts, architects, and client stakeholders, you'll help ensure Salesforce solutions meet business requirements, platform standards, and the compliance expectations of regulated Public Sector environments.
This is a remote, project-based opportunity supporting a Public Sector / Government Cloud initiative, with potential for extension based on project needs and performance.
We're anticipating future openings and are connecting now with great talent who'd like to be considered when the time comes.
What You'll Work On
As a Salesforce QA Engineer, you will:
Develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and validation activities across Salesforce Government Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud implementations.
Perform functional, regression, integration, system, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and end-to-end testing across Salesforce applications and connected enterprise systems.
Validate Salesforce configurations, Flows, Lightning components, Apex functionality, APIs, security models, and custom platform enhancements.
Collaborate with Salesforce Developers, Business Analysts, Solution Architects, and delivery teams to translate requirements and acceptance criteria into effective testing scenarios.
Build and maintain automated testing frameworks, test scripts, and regression suites using Copado and related Salesforce automation tools.
Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, retrospectives, and release readiness activities.
Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution while partnering with development teams on troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and remediation.
Verify data integrity, migration accuracy, and system functionality across Salesforce environments and deployments.
Ensure Salesforce solutions align with security, governance, accessibility, and applicable regulatory requirements within Public Sector and Government Cloud environments.
Support CI/CD deployment validation, release management, production readiness testing, and post-deployment verification.
Execute API and integration testing involving MuleSoft, middleware platforms, web services, and external enterprise applications.
Participate in client-facing testing discussions, defect reviews, solution demonstrations, and UAT coordination sessions.
Maintain accurate QA documentation, including test cases, test scripts, requirements traceability matrices, defect logs, and release validation reports.
Identify opportunities to strengthen testing processes, improve automation coverage, and increase quality and consistency across Agile delivery teams.
What You'll Bring
You will likely be successful in this role if you have:
5+ years of hands-on Salesforce QA, Quality Engineering,…