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We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.\nCaterpillar products generate and process large amounts of data from sensors, on-board models, and control algorithms in real-time creating real-world machine usage information. As part of the overall digital strategy Caterpillar has developed an integrated family of machine-based information technology products that interconnect machines to provide real time guidance, tracking, monitoring and supervisory control of the operational mining fleet. This family of products is branded MineStar. The MineStar product range links with other mining and business information systems and is an integral part of the Mining Technology Enabled Solutions vision.\nWe are seeking a skilled and experienced Test Automation Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary delivery teams building world class mining software solutions. As MineStar is modernized from a long-standing monolith into containerized microservices, this role focuses on test automation and technical testing: designing, building, and maintaining automated test suites that prove modernized services behave correctly and preserve legacy behavior. This is a hands-on engineering role, writing tests that run in CI and catch real defects, embedded within a high performing, self-managing delivery team.\nWhat You Will Do:\nDesign, build, and maintain automated tests across API, business-flow, and end-to-end UI layers for modernized MineStar microservices.\nAuthor contract and operation tests against REST and Protobuf endpoints, covering happy paths, negative and boundary cases, error handling, response schema validation, and event (MQTT) side-effects.\nBuild business-flow API tests that stitch operations across services to prove the system behaves correctly, including parity checks that compare modernized and legacy behavior.\nAutomate end-to-end user journeys through the AngularUI WebApp using Playwright, with API-first test setup and role-based access control (RBAC) permutations.\nContribute to and evolve the Playwright and TypeScript automation framework, including the shared locator library, extendable Page Object Model, reusable fixtures, and parallel execution.\nConfigure and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) so automated tests run on every pull request, monitoring daily execution, triaging failures, and driving down flakiness to root cause.\nWrite outcome-based, maintainable tests that survive surface changes, rather than step-coupled scripts tied to a single UI.\nSupport test environment readiness and test data management for automation on the containerized (Kubernetes) platform.\nPartner with engineers through shift-left practices, three-amigos conversations, and code reviews to build quality in early.\nHand finished per-domain automated suites to embedded scrum-team QAs, mentoring them to own and extend the suites and actively removing single points of failure through documentation.\nCommunicate quality status, automation coverage, and risk clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nWhat You Will Have:\nSoftware Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.\nStrong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile delivery, embedding quality early through shift-left testing, definition of done, and quality gates.\nExperience applying shift-left practices, three-amigos conversations, and code reviews to build quality throughout the development lifecycle.\nExperience with Cucumber or BDD frameworks where BDD is used as a collaboration practice (three-amigos), not Gherkin syntax layered over automation.\nCollaborative approach, partnering with engineers and product roles to continuously improve quality practices and outcomes.\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate quality status, automation coverage, and risk to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nExperience mentoring team members on automated testing practices, framework ownership, and documentation to promote long-term sustainability and knowledge sharing.\nTechnical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.\nExperience configuring and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or Jenkins.\nStrong troubleshooting skills to triage defects and automation failures to root cause, improving stability and reducing flaky tests across environments and data sets.\nAbility to monitor automated test execution, analyze failures, and drive quality improvements through root cause identification and resolution.\nExperience supporting test environment readiness and test data management within containerized platforms.\nProgramming: Knowledge of relevant programming languages and tools; ability to test, write, design, debug, troubleshoot and maintain source codes and computer programs.\nProficiency in TypeScript, or strong JavaScript with a credible TypeScript ramp, and the ability to build and maintain test automation code (strong typed-language depth in Java, C#, or Python with type hints also considered).\nAutomate end-to-end user journeys through the AngularUI WebApp using Playwright, with API-first test setup and role-based access control (RBAC) permutations.\nContribute to and evolve the Playwright and TypeScript automation framework, including the shared locator library, extendable Page Object Model, reusable fixtures, and parallel execution.\nSoftware Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.\nExperience designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test suites that provide fast, reliable feedback in CI.\nStrong capability in automated testing across API, business-flow, and end-to-end UI layers for modernized microservices architectures.\nHands-on experience testing REST APIs and contracts, including positive and negative scenarios, error handling, response content and schema validation, and authorization / role-based access control (RBAC).\nExperience authoring contract and operation tests against REST and Protobuf endpoints, covering happy paths, negative and boundary cases, error handling, response schema validation, and event side-effects.\nStrong business-flow test design skills, including validating system behavior across services and performing parity checks between modernized and legacy solutions.\nOutcome-based test design, with the ability to write maintainable tests that survive surface changes.\nStrong test analysis and design capability, including risk-based and exploratory testing, and translating requirements into clear, maintainable automated scenarios.\nConsiderations For Top Candidates:\nProtobuf or gRPC experience, used as the schema source of truth for modernized services.\nMQTT or event-driven testing, validating event side-effects published via the message broker.\nKubernetes or containerized platform testing, including reading logs across pod restarts and reasoning about mTLS, certificate, and RBAC failures.\nJava reading literacy to support parity test design against the legacy MineStar codebase (writing Java not required).\nMining, industrial automation, or other safety-critical domain background.\nPerformance and load testing experience (e.g. k6, JMeter, or Gatling), including designing scenarios, establishing baselines, and interpreting latency and throughput results.\nAbility to integrate performance checks into CI and flag regressions against agreed thresholds, complementing functional automation.\nAdditional Information:\nThis position requires the candidate to work full-time at the Irving, TX office.\nDomestic relocation assistance is available for this position.\nVisa sponsorship is available with this position.\nThis position will require up to 10% travel\n#LI\nSummary Pay Range:\n$112,710.00 - $183,140.00Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-relatedknowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.\nBenefits:\nSubject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.\nMedical, dental, and vision benefits*\n\nPaid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*\n\n401(k) savings plans*\n\nHealth Savings Account (HSA)*\n\nFlexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*\n\nHealth Lifestyle Programs*\n\nEmployee Assistance Program*\n\nVoluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*\n\nCareer Development*\n\nIncentive bonus*\n\nDisability benefits\n\nLife Insurance\n\nParental leave\n\nAdoption benefits\n\nTuition Reimbursement\n\n* These benefits also apply to part-time employees\nThis position requires working onsite five days a week.Relocation is available for this position.Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.Posting Dates:\nAny offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.\nCaterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.\nNot ready to apply? 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