Salesforce Developer (Automated Testing)

Salesforce Developer - Salesforce Platform Developer

Salary: £70,000 - £90,000

Location: Fully Remote

Package: Full corporate benefits package

Overview

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Salesforce Platform Developer to join an exciting SaaS organisation. The role will be approximately 80% focused on hands-on Salesforce development, with the remaining 20% providing additional capability across Automation testing. You will develop, test and maintain a Salesforce-based platform, delivering reliable platform changes and supporting integrations, deployments and releases within an Agile environment.

This would suit a hands-on Salesforce Developer with strong Apex, Lightning Web Components and OmniStudio experience who also has experience supporting automated testing.

Role and Responsibilities

• Spend approximately 80% of your time developing, configuring and maintaining Salesforce functionality across a business-critical platform


• Build solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, SOQL, JavaScript and OmniStudio


• Translate business and platform requirements into practical technical solutions, user stories and acceptance criteria


• Support integrations between Salesforce and wider enterprise applications and services


• Contribute to technical design, release readiness and deployment activities


• Spend approximately 20% of your time supporting automation testing, helping to improve test coverage and reduce manual testing


• Develop and maintain automated tests alongside functional and regression testing


• Investigate defects and technical issues across Salesforce development, integrations and environments


• Support Salesforce environments, deployments and CI/CD processes


• Work collaboratively within an Agile team, contributing to sprint planning, reviews and continuous improvement

Skills and Experience

• Strong commercial Salesforce development experience


• Hands-on experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows and SOQL


• Experience with Salesforce OmniStudio, including OmniScripts


• Good knowledge of Salesforce data, security, automation and integration principles


• Experience developing and supporting Salesforce solutions across multiple environments


• Experience with automation testing and automated test frameworks within a software development environment


• Strong functional and regression testing experience


• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Salesforce CLI, Metadata API and CI/CD pipelines


• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills


• Experience working within Agile development teams


• Experience within a regulated, healthcare, life sciences or clinical trials environment would be advantageous

Desirable

• Experience with Salesforce Agentforce or other Salesforce AI capabilities


• Familiarity with Heroku-hosted applications and Salesforce integration services


• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code


• Relevant Salesforce certifications including Platform Developer, OmniStudio Developer, Administrator or Platform App Builder