Vice President, QA Engineer – Salesforce

About this role

Team Overview

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 all of our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations.

Our unique approach to portfolio management requires development of custom software to ensure efficient and accurate execution of our daily tasks. Therefore, security, accuracy, and reliability are paramount, considering the volume of business handled daily. As a software engineer focusing on the quality of our products, you will be a part of our highly collaborative engineering team, focusing on our Salesforce implementation. Your main responsibility will be collaborating with various stakeholders to determine our quality metrics, develop the platform and tools required to measure and monitor them, and lead any improvement effort required to deliver them. You will play a key role in ensuring that every release of our software performs as specified by the business owners, and fulfils our high standards in security, accuracy, and reliability.

We work hard and move quickly as a well-coordinated, collaborative team whose exceptional people are focused on providing extraordinary client service. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow and contribute in a fun, industry-disruptive, fast-paced environment, SMA Solutions is the place for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish automated test framework, processes, and practices for SMA Solutions’ Salesforce implementation.

• Develop, maintain, and enforce quality metrics.

• Drive overall quality process by advocating discipline in versioning, documentation, and deployment processes.

• Collaborate with the Data and System Development teams to understand Salesforce changes and coordinate any necessary deployments on our internal systems

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for Salesforce Suite of applications using JavaScript/TypeScript/Java

• Utilize Cucumber for behavior-driven development (BDD) to enhance collaboration between technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Implement and execute automated tests for APIs to ensure the seamless integration and functionality of Salesforce applications

• Develop and execute test plans tailored to Salesforce-specific functionalities

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and business analysts, to ensure a comprehensive understanding of testing requirements

• Clearly communicate testing progress, issues, and resolutions to relevant stakeholders

• Stay updated on the latest industry trends, tools, and best practices related to QA automation

• Actively contribute to the enhancement of the overall testing process and framework

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Ten plus years of software testing or software development.

• B.S. in Computer Science, Data Science, Math, or related fields; or equivalent industry experience.

• Excellent interpersonal skills for building strong partnership with our business teams, influencing changes, and advocating software-quality-related values and principles.

• Intimate familiarity with quality metrics: escaped defects, reliability, repeatability, resiliency

• Deep understanding of the Salesforce development ecosystem: Apex, Lightning and Lightning Web Components, Aura

• Deep understanding of Salesforce data access methods: query languages (SOQL and SOSL), API technologies (SOAP and REST API)

• Expertise in test frameworks, e.g. Selenium, Playwright

• Expertise with object-oriented languages, e.g. Python, Javascript, Typescript, Java

• Strong foundation in RDBMS and SQL

• Discipline with good programming or scripting practices and tools: code review, distributed repositories (Mercurial, Git), CI techniques and tools.

Highly Desirable Skills/Experience

• Related experience in the financial or investment sector is a big plus

• DevOps skills to support development and deployment of our test suites.

• Familiarity with Agile software development process desirable

• Experience in security testing desirable

• Certifications in quality-related frameworks, e.g. Six-sigma, ISTQB

For California only the salary range for this position is $161,500 – $200,000. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required 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. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

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