Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

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As a Software Test Engineer, you will contribute to quality assurance of software systems and/or applications in order to deliver information technology components based on client or customer requirements.

What will be your tasks?

Responsibilities of the incumbents are to provide manual and/or automation testing of features and capabilities of platform and/or applications.

• Competent to perform all testing, defect and test case management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work.
• Competent to perform all testing activities of new and existing software products.
• Use your understanding of systems, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Analyze business requirement to develop and execute manual and automation test cases
• Document software issues and defects in bug tracking software and monitor for the resolution.
• Coordinate with product owner to resolve open issues/enhancements/upgrades and understand the use of a specific functionality as needed
• Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness
• Performs integration testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
• Prepare test plans with clear scope, objectives, deliverables and risks identification
• Tracking and reporting of quantitative and qualitative test result/metrics
• Ensuring testing is carried out in a timely, repeatable, and effective manner

Who are we looking for?

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience in Software engineering.
• 5 years or more of software testing experience (manual and automation)
• 3 years or more of test automation framework design and development experience 
• 3 years or more of prior either functional or object-oriented coding experience in modern programming languages like JavaScript/TypeScript, Java or Python
• Strong development skills in the following technologies and tools: Cypress, MochaJS
• Strong experience in testing Webservices (REST APIs - Selenium, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, etc.)
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology.
• You communicate in English

Top candidates will also have:

• Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation framework that facilitates automation scripting, execution, and analysis of results
• Develop of test automation code for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), of systems, infrastructure, and test framework.
• End-to-end, system, and integration testing experience for software platforms
• Proven experience developing test scripts, test cases, and test data
• The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases
• Experience with Playwright
• Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties
• Experience in TDD, continuous integration, code review practice is strongly desired
• Experience with DevOps concepts and tools (e.g., CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git)
• Solid understanding of Agile/Lean practices.
• Understanding of a micro service Architecture
• Experience load, security, and performance testing
• Strong documentation skills
• Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment
• Pro-active, flexible and creative
• Very strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with developers and business users.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

 

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

April 21, 2026 - May 20, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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