Quality Assurance Engineer
Caterpillar1 day ago
Base Salary
$113k - $183k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain automated API, contract, business-flow, and end-to-end UI tests for MineStar microservices.
- Test REST and Protobuf endpoints, including positive, negative, boundary, error-handling, schema-validation, authorization, and MQTT event scenarios.
- Automate AngularUI WebApp user journeys with Playwright, TypeScript, reusable fixtures, Page Object Models, and parallel execution.
- Configure and maintain CI/CD test pipelines using GitHub Actions and troubleshoot flaky tests and automation failures to root cause.
- Support test environment readiness and test data management on Kubernetes and containerized platforms.
- Perform parity checks between modernized and legacy systems and validate behavior across services.
- Collaborate through shift-left practices, three-amigos conversations, code reviews, and quality gates.
- Mentor embedded scrum-team QAs and communicate quality status, coverage, and risk to stakeholders.
- Travel up to 10% as required.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, Agile delivery, shift-left testing, definitions of done, and quality gates.
- Experience with Cucumber or BDD frameworks as a collaboration practice.
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or Jenkins.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, or strong JavaScript with credible TypeScript ramp-up capability; Java, C#, or typed Python experience may also be considered.
- Experience designing and maintaining reliable automated tests across API, business-flow, and end-to-end UI layers.
- Hands-on experience testing REST APIs and contracts, including authorization and role-based access control.
- Experience with Protobuf or gRPC, MQTT or event-driven testing, Kubernetes, or containerized platform testing is preferred.
- Java reading literacy, mining or industrial automation experience, and safety-critical domain experience are preferred.
- Performance and load testing experience with k6, JMeter, or Gatling is preferred.
- Strong troubleshooting, test analysis, communication, mentoring, and documentation skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits; paid time off; 401(k) savings plans; HSA and FSA options; wellness programs; employee assistance; voluntary benefits and discounts; disability benefits; life insurance; parental and adoption benefits; tuition reimbursement; and incentive bonus eligibility.
- This is a full-time onsite position in the Irving, Texas office, requiring work onsite five days per week.
- Domestic relocation assistance is available.
- Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
- The position may require up to 10% travel.
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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.