Senior Automation Test Engineer – Microservices & AI Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to help build quality into the Autonomy Services Platform by designing scalable automation for mission, task, and API services.

You will shape how microservices and AI-assisted tooling validate software across global operations. You will use AI-assisted coding platforms to accelerate test generation, review AI-generated code for correctness, and ensure tests meet engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of designing and executing testing strategies for software products.
• Experience with system and integration testing across distributed systems.
• Ability to build maintainable test frameworks and automation code.

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 and software engineering agents to accelerate test generation, test-data creation, mocks, stubs, failure analysis, refactoring, 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.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

API testing

Test automation

AI-assisted coding

Tools

JUnit

Mockito

Testcontainers

WireMock

REST Assured

Cucumber

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to help build quality into the Autonomy Services Platform by designing scalable automation for mission, task, and API services.

You will shape how microservices and AI-assisted tooling validate software across global operations. You will use AI-assisted coding platforms to accelerate test generation, review AI-generated code for correctness, and ensure tests meet engineering standards.