Salesforce DevOps and Automated Testing Tool Solution

The Vendor is required to provide salesforce DevOps and automated testing tool solution to safely and efficiently develop applications that support this expanding set of use cases, the state requires a dedicated DevOps platform capable of managing multiple, self-contained sandboxes for development, QA, system integration testing (SIT), and user acceptance testing (UAT) prior to production.
- Functional requirements
•    Continuous integration (CI): automated builds, code Linting, and static analysis on every commit.
•    Continuous delivery and deployment (CD): automated deployment pipelines supporting multi-stage environments
•    Pipeline management: ability to define pipelines using for version controllable, infrastructure-as-code configuration.
•    Work item tracking: tools to manage backlogs, epics, user stories, and tasks, such as azure boards.
•    Traceability: end-to-end traceability from requirements to code changes, builds, and releases.
•    Reporting: real-time dashboards to track sprint progress and velocity.
•    Scalability: ability to handle large teams and high frequency deployment, with options for cloud hosted or self-hosted agents.
•    Build and release artifacts: centralized repository to manage packages 
- Technical requirements
•    Source code management: integration with GIT for distributed version control, branching, and pull request workflows.
•    Infrastructure as code (IAC): support for tools like terraform or Ansible to manage infrastructure through code, ensuring consistency.
•    Containerization: support for container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for orchestration.
•    Automated testing: integration of automated test frameworks within the CI/CD pipeline.
•    Manual testing: capabilities to manage and execute manual test cases, such as azure test plans.
•    Security scanning: automated security analysis (DevSecOps) within the pipeline.
•    Observability: integrated monitoring to provide feedback on application performance in production.
•    Telemetry: tools to monitor deployment success rates and application health
•    Automated testing tool: native automated testing tools.
•    Primary and secondary hosting: prefer (primary) east coast and secondary mid-west (low latency and high accessibility).