Lead Quality Software Engineer

Airkit
Airkit

Software Engineering, Quality Assurance

San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted on Jun 29, 2026

Description

The Experience

As a member of the Salesforce Quality team, you will use agile methodologies to plan, coordinate, and lead customer engagements that result in automated tests and input to product teams. You will use your skills to extract user scenarios from conversations and data, then translate your findings into automatable test plans. You bring a strong quality mindset and a natural curiosity to learn our customers' business, ensuring everyone receives high-quality deliverables. This role is 1-3 days per week in office.

What You'll Actually Be Doing
  • Plan and deliver test automation and automation frameworks with a quality-first mindset, including end-to-end, cross-cloud integration automation using both User Interface (UI) and Application Programming Interface (API) approaches.
  • Partner with engineers, product managers, and design leads to ensure features meet business and quality requirements, and participate in Test Design Review Boards across clouds.
  • Communicate with customers to understand real-world usage, build test cases, and advocate for customer-driven enhancements.
  • Mentor and coach team members across scrum teams, and monitor feature-level quality health metrics including test coverage, test health, and testability.


You're Our Person If...
  • 10+ years of software engineering, quality assurance and engineering, usability, or business analysis experience.
  • Proficiency in JavaScript and Java, with hands-on experience writing functional automation for both UI and API layers.
  • Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, relational databases, and Structured Query Language (SQL).
  • Experience with agile development methodology and the ability to communicate technical information clearly across teams.


Even Better If...
  • Professional experience applying AI in an enterprise software context.
  • Salesforce platform experience or Salesforce certifications.
  • Familiarity with developer tools such as git, Maven, or Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
  • A related technical degree.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.