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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.\nHelp Build the Future of Caterpillar\nAt Caterpillar, technology always has a purpose: solving our customers toughest challenges. Through Cat Technology, we are building the intelligence layer that connects machines, data, and people to make jobsites safer, more productive, and more sustainable.\nJob Summary\nThe Senior Software Test Engineer helps build quality into the Autonomy Services Platform by creating scalable automation for mission, task, command, state, and integration services. This is an opportunity to shape how modern microservices and APIs are validated, use AI-assisted coding platforms to accelerate automation, and improve the reliability of software that supports intelligent machines and autonomous operations at global scale.\nWhat You Will Do\nDesign and build automated test frameworks for Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, event-driven services, databases, and distributed workflows.\nCreate API, contract, component, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, resilience, and failure-recovery tests for autonomy platform services.\nUse AI-assisted coding tools and software engineering agents to accelerate test generation, test-data creation, mocks, stubs, failure analysis, refactoring, and documentation.\nReview and validate AI-generated test code for correctness, security, maintainability, coverage, and alignment with engineering standards.\nValidate asynchronous processing, state transitions, retries, timeouts, duplicate requests, message ordering, idempotency, backpressure, and partial-failure recovery.\nIntegrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and define quality metrics, release-readiness criteria, and actionable feedback for engineering teams.\nPartner with developers, architects, product teams, and mission teams to translate requirements and service contracts into executable tests and mentor others in test-first engineering practices.\nWhat You Will Have\nSoftware Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software quality and adherence to stated requirements.\nSystem Testing: Knowledge of system and software testing; ability to design, plan, and execute system-testing strategies across all stages of the system lifecycle.\nSoftware Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to build maintainable test frameworks, utilities, and production-quality automation code.\nSoftware Integration Engineering: Knowledge of integration processes and functions; ability to validate APIs, events, data contracts, interfaces, and dependencies across distributed systems.\nDecision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of decision-making tools and techniques; ability to analyze risks, identify failure modes, prioritize coverage, and make informed quality and release-readiness decisions.\nConsideration for Top Candidates\nStrong hands-on experience building software test automation for backend microservices, REST APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud-native applications.\nExperience testing Java 17+ and Spring Boot services using tools such as JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers, WireMock, REST Assured, Cucumber, or equivalent frameworks.\nExperience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Kafka or similar messaging platforms, and automated test-environment or test-data setup.\nPractical experience building automation with AI-assisted coding platforms such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent tools, including structured context, verification criteria, human review, and responsible AI controls.\nStrong understanding of API contracts, state management, asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, observability, resiliency, performance, and security testing.\nExperience creating reusable mocks, stubs, simulators, service virtualization, and integration-test harnesses for systems with unavailable or evolving dependencies.\nExperience with autonomy, robotics, machine integration, industrial systems, simulation-based testing, Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop, or Python-based test tooling is preferred.\nA self-driven, ownership-oriented mindset with a focus on continuous improvement, defect prevention, and building quality into the engineering process.\nAdditional Details\nThis position is based in Irving, TX.\nThis is a hands-on software quality engineering role focused on automation, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and platform reliability; it is not primarily a manual testing role.\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. 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