Senior Test Automation Engineer – Microservices & AI

Caterpillar; Jasper (AL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off (Vacation, Holidays)

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to help build quality into the Autonomy Services Platform. You will design scalable automation for mission, task, and integration services, validating microservices and APIs at global scale.

The role emphasizes automation, AI-assisted coding, and reliable software powering autonomous operations. Based in Irving, TX, this hands-on quality engineering position requires on-site work five days a week and offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building test automation for backend microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-native apps.
• Experience testing Java 17+ and Spring Boot with JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers, WireMock, REST Assured, or Cucumber.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Kafka, and test-data setup.

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, data creation, mocks, and documentation.
• Review AI-generated test code for correctness, security, maintainability, and coverage.
• Validate asynchronous processing, state transitions, retries, timeouts, idempotency, partial-failure recovery.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and define quality metrics and release-readiness criteria.
• Partner with developers and mission teams to translate requirements into executable tests and mentor others in test-first practices.

Skills

Software Product Testing

System Testing

Software Development

Software Integration Engineering

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Tools

JUnit

Mockito

Testcontainers

WireMock

REST Assured

Cucumber

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Kafka

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to help build quality into the Autonomy Services Platform. You will design scalable automation for mission, task, and integration services, validating microservices and APIs at global scale.

The role emphasizes automation, AI-assisted coding, and reliable software powering autonomous operations. Based in Irving, TX, this hands-on quality engineering position requires on-site work five days a week and offers a comprehensive benefits package.