Sr. Test Automation Engineer

Overview
Certara is a growing company that provides a dynamic and exciting place to work. Our purpose is to assist in accelerating the development of meaningful medicines that make an impact on our society and the people that need them most. Innovation and creativity are highly valued, and everyone is given the opportunity for training and continuous development. Our portfolio spans the discovery, preclinical, clinical and post-marketing phases of drug development, working with 1,200 commercial companies, 250 academic institutions, and numerous regulatory agencies.

About the position

As Sr. Test Automation Engineer, you'll provide quality assurance for our Salesforce test automation function — spanning our Go-to-Market Salesforce ecosystem (CRM, CPQ, Marketing Automation, and Contract Lifecycle Management) across Certara's commercial teams and business units. You'll partner closely with Salesforce admins and developers, drive automated regression testing using Gearset.

• Learn the Salesforce Org architecture, configurations, and release cadence across CRM, CPQ, Marketing Automation, and CLM
• Provide release testing across CRM, CPQ, Marketing Automation, and CLM, ensuring release quality is maintained.
• Provide and evolve the Gearset-based automated regression testing framework for Salesforce deployments.
• Maintain and expand a comprehensive test suite covering core business processes, integrations, and customizations.
• Partner with Salesforce admins/developers to embed automated testing into the deployment pipeline (CI/CD).
• Define QA standards, test documentation practices, and governance for ongoing releases.
• Work within the team's Agile/JIRA delivery process, integrating QA checkpoints into sprint cycles.
• Support Salesforce testing needs across Certara's business units as part of the broader GTM applications scope.
• Report on test coverage, defect trends, and release readiness to technology and business stakeholders, across time zones as needed given the distributed team.
  
  

• Bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or Engineering.
• 3+ years of QA/testing experience, ideally within a Salesforce or CRM environment.
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce configuration (objects, flows, validation rules) sufficient to design meaningful test coverage.
• Experience designing and maintaining test plans and test cases, not just executing existing ones.
• Understanding of Agile delivery and tools such as JIRA.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Ability to work with meaningful overlap with US/European hours for standups and stakeholder syncs.

Bonus skills
• Salesforce certifications (Administrator, CPQ Specialist, or similar)
• Experience testing CPQ pricing/quoting logic specifically
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release management tools
• Exposure to SOX compliance
• Exposure to Marketing Automation or CLM platform testing

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.