Elevate Your Salesforce Testing Skills
Senior Salesforce QA EngineerDBDeep Barot
Founder, ContextQA (host)
What makes Salesforce testing fundamentally different from web or mobile testing — and why is it still essential on a "point-and-click" platform? A senior Salesforce QA engineer breaks down release cycles, sandboxes, data-driven and integration testing, and why early tester involvement pays off on expensive implementations.
Walk away knowing how to apply it
What the conversation covers
Why Salesforce is sold as "development" and how that wrongly sidelines testing
Salesforce realities: SOQL vs SQL, the developer console, Platform-as-a-Service
The sandbox landscape: Developer Edition, partial-copy, full-copy, production
Tester mindset: 30–40 scenarios for a single field vs a developer's 10–12
Early tester involvement from Sprint zero for ROI on Salesforce/SAP projects
Regression scope driven by complexity (CPQ vs an optional field)
API testing and two-way sync to prove cross-system integration
The ideas worth remembering
Learn Salesforce as a platform first, then apply testing technique
A tester's job is ensuring functionality doesn't break in production, not just "breaking" things
Automate activities, not whole projects
Productivity, not hours worked, is a tester's real measure of value
A project manager, BA, and developer wear the hat; a tester wears the shoes — because the tester is the one who knows the end-to-end flow.— Gandharv Madan
Who you'll hear from
Gandharv Madan
Senior Salesforce QA Engineer
Deep Barot
Founder, ContextQA (host)
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