Senior Automation Test Engineer – AI-Driven Microservices

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

Paid time off plan

401(k) savings plans*

Tuition Reimbursement *

Career Development*

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to build scalable automation for the Autonomy Services Platform. You will validate microservices, APIs, and distributed workflows with AI-assisted coding tools, ensuring reliability for autonomous operations at scale.

The role emphasizes test automation, API testing, and integration with CI/CD pipelines, based in Irving, TX at Caterpillar. Onsite work is required with relocation and visa sponsorship available.

Qualifications

• Experience building automated test frameworks for Java/Spring Boot microservices.
• Experience with API, contract, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native applications.

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.
• Use AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate test generation, data creation, mocks, and documentation.
• Review and validate AI-generated test code for correctness, security, maintainability, coverage, and standards alignment.
• Validate asynchronous processing, state transitions, retries, timeouts, idempotency, and partial-failure recovery.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and define quality metrics and release-readiness criteria.

Skills

Test automation

Java

Spring Boot

API testing

CI/CD

AWS

Kubernetes

Tools

JUnit

Mockito

Testcontainers

WireMock

REST Assured

Cucumber

GitHub Copilot

Kafka

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to build scalable automation for the Autonomy Services Platform. You will validate microservices, APIs, and distributed workflows with AI-assisted coding tools, ensuring reliability for autonomous operations at scale.

The role emphasizes test automation, API testing, and integration with CI/CD pipelines, based in Irving, TX at Caterpillar. Onsite work is required with relocation and visa sponsorship available.