Test Coordinator/Project Manager

Caterpillar Brazil; Monterrey (Batáquez); Híbrido; MXN 700.000 - 1.100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Caterpillar is seeking a dedicated Test PMO professional to manage testing activities across IT delivery initiatives. The role focuses on coordination, governance, readiness, and stakeholder alignment to ensure testing is executed effectively and issues are surfaced early.

You will coordinate across project teams, developers, testers, and business stakeholders to maintain execution discipline and provide clear visibility into testing progress and delivery health.

Formación

• Owns coordination, governance support, reporting, readiness, risks, dependencies for testing activities.
• Monitors testing health, dashboards, metrics, and executive summaries for reviews.
• Prepares materials for testing governance forums and tracks decisions.
• Partners with business and IT to clarify requirements and ensure testing coverage.
• Identifies and communicates testing risks, defects, blockers, and dependencies.
• Supports testing transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsabilidades

• Lead day-to-day test coordination across projects, portfolios, and initiatives.
• Monitor test activity health across schedules, milestones, and readiness.
• Provide governance readiness and go/no-go support for testing forums.
• Coordinate requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews with stakeholders.
• Track and escalate testing risks and issues to minimize delivery disruption.
• Support end-to-end testing activities for medium to large IT initiatives.

Conocimientos

Test coordination

Governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Executive communication

Delivery coordination

IT delivery support

Educación

Bachelor's degree in MIS or Computer Information

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

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.

Job Summary

This role is intentionally structured like a Project Manager / PMO execution role, but focused specifically on test management. The position owns coordination, visibility, governance support, reporting, readiness, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment for testing activities across IT delivery initiatives. Support the successful planning, coordination, execution, and reporting of testing activities across IT initiatives through strong test management discipline, monitoring, governance, and stakeholder collaboration. This role provides visibility into testing progress, quality risks, readiness, and delivery health, ensuring testing activities are executed effectively, issues are surfaced early, and project teams have the information needed to make informed delivery decisions.

What You Will Do

• Lead day-to-day test coordination activities across projects, portfolios, and process-related initiatives. This includes supporting test planning, tracking milestones, coordinating resources, managing testing dependencies, and maintaining execution discipline throughout the testing lifecycle.
• Monitor test activity health across schedules, milestones, execution progress, defects, environment readiness, risks, dependencies, and delivery commitments. Produce concise status reports, dashboards, metrics, and executive summaries to support project teams, leadership reviews, readiness decisions, and escalation discussions.
• Test Readiness & Governance Support: Prepare materials for testing governance forums, readiness reviews, project checkpoints, and go/no-go discussions. Track decisions, document action items, ensure follow-through, and operate within standards and direction established by test management, process owners, portfolio owners, and delivery leadership.
• Requirements, Traceability & Quality Coordination: Partner with business and IT stakeholders to clarify requirements, support walkthroughs and quality reviews, monitor requirement-related activities, and help ensure testing coverage aligns to business needs, project objectives, and delivery expectations.
• Risk, Defect & Dependency Management: Identify, document, track, and communicate testing risks, defects, blockers, dependencies, and quality concerns. Surface issues early and work across project teams to support timely resolution and minimize delivery disruption.
• Process Reengineering & Testing Improvement: Support execution of IT process reengineering, testing transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives by tracking pilots, rollout activities, roadmaps, and agreed actions. Help drive adoption of standards, tools, automation opportunities, and improved testing practices.
• Cross-Functional Stakeholder Coordination: Serve as a central coordination point between business stakeholders, project teams, developers, testers, application owners, support teams, and leadership. Facilitate conversations, communicate updates, align roles and responsibilities, and help ensure expectations remain clear across the testing lifecycle.
• Application Delivery & Implementation Support: Support testing activities related to application implementation, maintenance, enhancement, and issue resolution. Coordinate with IT and business professionals to understand impacts, communicate testing considerations, and help ensure implemented solutions meet business and quality expectations.

Education

Education requirement: Bachelor's degree in MIS or Computer Information or equivalent degree. Advanced English proficiency for cross-site and global collaboration.

Skills You Will Have

• Core Application Systems Familiarity with application delivery, testing lifecycles, governance forums, reporting cadences, and structured execution practices.
• Problem Solving Practical exposure to Agile, hybrid, Lean, Six Sigma, or structured project delivery methods.
• Leadership Working knowledge in coordinating across business, development, quality assurance, support, project, and leadership teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex testing information clearly for different audiences.
• Expert in test coordination, test management, quality assurance, PMO, delivery coordination, IT operations, or related IT delivery support roles.
• Implementation Supporting end-to-end testing activities for medium to large technology initiatives.

Top Candidates Will Also Have

• Expert in coordinating testing for large scale, highly integrated enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with testing governance models and quality metrics for executive reporting.
• Fluent in operating in global or multi regional IT environments.
• Background in IT leadership, coordination roles, or functional team leadership.

Additional Information

This position will be in Santa Maria Office at Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. This position is five-days a week subject to changes and willingness to work sporadically on weekends. Domestic relocation assistance is NOT available for this position. Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.

Equal Opportunity

The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select, and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability. In this company we do not request pregnancy tests, nor HIV tests as requirements for employment entry, permanence or promotion. Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

Company Culture

There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar. Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.

Posting Dates

agosto 21, 2026 - septiembre 4, 2026