Automation-Driven Simulation Quality Engineer

Caterpillar Inc; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 98,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX seeks a Simulation Quality Automation Engineer to develop and execute automated quality, integration, and validation solutions for simulation platforms, digital twin, and autonomy workflows.

You will build test frameworks, regression suites, and CI/CD integration, collaborating with QA and engineering teams to deliver release-quality evidence and robust test coverage across cloud, on-premises, GPU, SIL and HIL environments.

Qualifications

• Software development or test automation experience using Python, C++, C#, Java, or a comparable language.
• Experience with automated testing, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, CI/CD, and defect tracking.
• Knowledge of verification and validation, requirements traceability, test design, metrics, and release-quality practices.
• Exposure to SIL, HIL, simulation systems, robotics, digital twins, real-time software, or embedded integration is preferred.
• Experience with Linux, Git, scripting, containers, logs, debugging, and test reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and reusable test utilities using Python, C++, or other relevant languages.
• Create unit, integration, system, regression, performance, reliability, SIL, and HIL tests for simulation platform components and workflows.
• Translate requirements, acceptance criteria, interfaces, and expected behaviors into clear test cases and automated validation.
• Build regression suites covering scenario execution, runtime services, APIs, asset workflows, rendering outputs, sensors, and platform integrations.
• Integrate automated simulation tests into CI/CD pipelines, build gates, packaging, artifact, and release workflows.
• Develop test data, fixtures, mocks, stubs, environment configurations, and repeatable test environments.
• Implement metrics, KPIs, pass/fail criteria, dashboards, reports, traceability, and automated evidence collection.
• Support deterministic replay, results comparison, baseline management, defect reproduction, and root-cause analysis.
• Perform system integration and exploratory testing across cloud, on-premises, GPU, SIL, and HIL environments.
• Partner with software, scenario, rendering, digital twin, robotics, controls, and platform engineers to identify risks and improve testability.
• Document test plans, procedures, results, defects, coverage, known limitations, and release recommendations.
• Contribute to quality standards, code reviews, test reviews, and continuous improvement under the direction of the QA Lead.

Skills

Python

C++

C#

Java

Linux

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, or related

Tools

CI/CD

Test automation

NVIDIA Omniverse

Unreal Engine

CARLA

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX seeks a Simulation Quality Automation Engineer to develop and execute automated quality, integration, and validation solutions for simulation platforms, digital twin, and autonomy workflows.

You will build test frameworks, regression suites, and CI/CD integration, collaborating with QA and engineering teams to deliver release-quality evidence and robust test coverage across cloud, on-premises, GPU, SIL and HIL environments.