Senior Software test Engineer - Automation Testing
Caterpillar20 hours ago
Chennai, India or Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and drive Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and Continuous Testing strategies across products and platforms.
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of Playwright-based automation frameworks and Karate API automation solutions.
- Define automation standards, governance processes, coding best practices, and long-term quality engineering roadmaps.
- Drive AI-powered testing approaches, advanced automation capabilities, and engineering innovations.
- Lead release readiness, quality sign-off, risk assessment, root cause analysis, defect prevention, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Represent Quality Engineering in architecture reviews, design sessions, and engineering leadership forums.
- Mentor, coach, and provide technical leadership to Quality Engineering and Automation teams.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, and leadership teams on scalable, high-quality solutions.
Requirements
- Strong experience with functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing across web, mobile, API, and data platforms.
- Expertise developing Playwright automation frameworks, including framework architecture, cross-browser testing, parallel execution, reporting, and CI/CD integration.
- Hands-on experience with API testing and automation using Karate, including REST APIs, contract testing, and service integration validation.
- Experience applying AI/GenAI technologies to automated test generation, intelligent test maintenance, defect prediction, and test optimization.
- Strong understanding of ETL, databases, SQL, data migration, data reconciliation, and end-to-end data validation.
- Knowledge of AWS cloud services, distributed systems, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Zephyr, GitHub, and Jenkins.
- Experience defining Quality Engineering strategies, testing standards, governance models, automation framework strategies, and transformation initiatives.
- Strong analytical, debugging, root cause analysis, risk assessment, stakeholder management, communication, and executive presentation skills.
- Experience with eCommerce applications, customer journeys, order management, payment gateways, inventory management, and large-scale enterprise or customer-facing platforms.
- Ability to lead cross-functional quality initiatives, influence engineering decisions, mentor teams, and advocate quality-first approaches.
Benefits
- The posting identifies Caterpillar as an equal opportunity employer.
- The listed posting dates are September 14, 2026 through September 20, 2026.
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. designs, manufactures, and services construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives for infrastructure, resource, and energy customers. The public company, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, sells primarily through an independent worldwide dealer network and provides equipment financing. It operates through Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation segments, with shares traded on the NYSE and Euronext Paris.