Senior Automation Test Engineer - AI-Driven API&Microservices

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Vacation time & Holidays

401(k) savings plans

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to embed quality in the Autonomy Services Platform. You will create scalable automation for microservices, APIs, and distributed workflows, using AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate test generation and data preparation.

You will validate AI-generated test code, integrate tests into CI/CD, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure robust release-readiness and reliable autonomous operations at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience testing Java 17+ and Spring Boot services using JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers, WireMock, REST Assured, Cucumber or equivalents.
• Ability to design automated test frameworks for microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native testing, CI/CD integration, and test-data management.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automated test frameworks for Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, event-driven services, databases, and distributed workflows.
• Create API, contract, component, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, resilience, and failure-recovery tests for autonomy platform services.
• Use AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate test generation, test-data creation, mocks, stubs, failure analysis, and documentation.
• Review and validate AI-generated test code for correctness, security, maintainability, coverage, and alignment with engineering standards.
• Validate asynchronous processing, state transitions, retries, timeouts, duplicate requests, message ordering, idempotency, backpressure, and partial-failure recovery.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and define quality metrics, release-readiness criteria, and actionable feedback for engineering teams.
• Partner with developers, architects, product teams, and mission teams to translate requirements and service contracts into executable tests and mentor others in test-first engineering practices.

Skills

Java 17+

JUnit

Mockito

Testcontainers

WireMock

REST Assured

Cucumber

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Kafka

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to embed quality in the Autonomy Services Platform. You will create scalable automation for microservices, APIs, and distributed workflows, using AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate test generation and data preparation.

You will validate AI-generated test code, integrate tests into CI/CD, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure robust release-readiness and reliable autonomous operations at scale.