Salesforce DevOps/Test Automation Engineer

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of 22.1 billion.

About The Role

We are seeking a Salesforce DevOps/Test Automation Engineer to support the end-to-end delivery of solutions with Salesforce as the core platform. You will help design, implement, and run CI/CD pipelines, manage deployments across environments, and build automated tests to ensure implementation quality, regression stability, and release reliability. For senior hires, you will design the DevOps strategy, shape environment architecture, advise on tools and frameworks, and coach the development team. The role may also involve working with complementary technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, MuleSoft).

What You Will Do

DevOps Execution Responsibilities

• Orchestrate deployments across environments in partnership with functional leads, developers and QA teams.
• Review and support merge requests; coach developers on deployment best practices, SFDX usage, and metadata handling.
• Execute and manage back-merges to maintain alignment across branches/environments.
• Troubleshoot build/deployment failures, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive fixes.
• Ensure adherence to governance, secure credential handling, and configuration management standards.
• Monitor pipeline runs, deployment logs, and quality gates, proactively addressing issues.

Test Automation Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test frameworks for Salesforce UI, API, and componentlevel testing (e.g. Selenium, Playwright, JMeter).
• Implement static analysis, code coverage validation, and security scanning (e.g. PMD, SonarQube, SFDX scanners).
• Work with developers and BAs to translate user flows into automated test scenarios.
• Write automated test scripts to replace/reduce manual testing and support regression cycles.
• Troubleshoot test failures, analyse root causes, and collaborate with developers to resolve issues.

Must Have Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Practical experience using Git, including branching, merging, and pull request workflows.
• Basic understanding of programming fundamentals and test automation concepts.
• Experience using CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
• Practical experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, JMeter, or equivalent.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Salesforce DevOps Center, Copado, Gearset, or Flosum.
• Exposure to AWS or Azure cloud platforms.
• Salesforce certifications (Platform Developer I, Administrator, Platform App Builder, DevOps Center Specialist).
• Familiarity with Salesforce security concepts, roles, profiles, permission sets, and secrets management.
• Programming experience in Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript.
• Experience in public sector projects or regulated environments.

Ways of Working

• Work collaboratively within an agile, sprintbased delivery environment.
• Communicate progress, risks, and blockers proactively to leads and stakeholders.
• Follow agreed DevOps and automation standards, continuously improving processes where possible.
• Collaborate closely with developers, QA, BAs, and architects to ensure stable and predictable releases.
• Advocate for automation-first approaches to improve quality and team efficiency.

Success Measures

• Reliable, predictable releases with high deployment success rate and improving lead time for change.
• Reduction in manual testing effort through effective automation coverage.
• Fewer escaped defects due to strong quality gates and regression automation.
• Positive feedback from developers, QA, and stakeholders on release cadence, communication, and support.
• Effective enablement of developers, demonstrated through improved team autonomy and reduced release issues.

Let's talk about what's in it for you!

Passionate people are Capgemini's Ace of Spades - join us to discover a career that will challenge, support and inspire you. Working at Capgemini you'll find the rewards are more than just financial. You will work alongside some very smart and inspiring people on exciting projects and you will also enjoy incredible benefits. We offer flexible work practices and 40 hours of self-development every year with a huge selection of learning opportunities to choose from.

As Architects of Positive Futures, Capgemini actively supports the community in 3 ways:

Diversity and Inclusion - we believe diversity of thought fuels excellence and innovation, which is why we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of their gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, ability, intersex status or age. To support our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we celebrate special events and days of significance that are important to our employees such as Diwali, Bastille Day, Pride, IDAHOBIT, IWD and International Day of People with Disabilities. Our Employee Resource Groups Women@Capgemini and OutFront support the grassroots passion of employees to drive our diversity agenda and effect change.

Digital inclusion - at Capgemini we are using our skills to drive social impact initiatives focusing on helping society address the impact of the digital and automation revolution. We also provide employees with opportunities to give back to the community through charity projects and volunteer days.

Environmental Sustainability - Capgemini joined the CDP's (Carbon Disclosure Project) prestigious A list for its commitment to the Net-Zero economy. We are focusing on helping our clients transform towards more sustainable business models and committing to reduce our own carbon emissions (GHG) by 20% per employee by 2020.

Recognised by Ethisphere as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the last 8 years in a row, ethics and values are at the heart of Capgemini's corporate culture and business. Embedded in our DNA, our seven values - Honesty, Boldness, Trust, Team Spirit, Freedom, Fun and Modesty - have remained the same since company inception in 1967. To see how we bring these values to life, click here to listen to some of our employee's stories.

Come join us, bring your whole self to work, create new possibilities for you, your customers and your community and help us to be Architects of Positive Futures.