Software Engineer - QA

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Role Summary

The Software Testing Engineer is responsible for driving quality engineering strategy, executing automation initiatives, and ensuring high test coverage across Caterpillar Dealer facing web application (Foresight). This role requires strong technical expertise in automation frameworks (Playwright & Selenium), and the ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, reliable web solutions.

What You Will Do

Leadership & Strategy

• Define and implement the overall QA strategy aligning with product and organizational goals.
• Ensure best practices and skills are developed.
• Coordinate QA activities across Project Operations modules, ensuring clarity of scope and priorities.
• Facilitate triage calls, team meetings, and cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders.

Automation Framework Ownership

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium, and RestAssured (Java/Python preferred).
• Upgrade or optimize existing frameworks for reliability, maintainability, CI/CD compatibility, and container-based test execution.
• Enable tagging, modularization, and classification of failures to support large-scale execution across Foresight modules.

Test Planning & Execution

• Prepare, review, and maintain QA artifacts (test plans, cases, regression suites, reports).
• Ensure complete test coverage-functional, integration, API, end-to-end, performance, and batch job validation.
• Oversee defect triage, prioritization, and root cause analysis.
• Coordinate environment setup, test execution, and regression cycles across Dev/UAT/Prod releases.

Performance & Reliability Oversight

• Collaborate with performance engineers to define SLAs and gather non-functional requirements.
• Monitor bottlenecks & flakiness
• Integrate performance regressions into CI/CD pipelines for timely detection of issues.

Continuous Integration / DevOps Coordination

• Enable development teams with regression test suites for shift-left validation of breaking changes.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution in Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Support deployments, verification cycles, and parallel release testing across development environments.

Reporting & Governance

• Track KPIs such as defect density, test coverage, execution reliability, and automation ROI.
• Prepare dashboards, quality reports, and provide regular updates to stakeholders.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of quality outcomes.

What You Will Have

Technical Expertise

• Strong expertise in automation tools: Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, RestAssured, Robot Framework.
• Programming skills: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python.
• Frameworks: Page Object Model (POM), BDD (Cucumber).
• API testing:Bruno, Swagger, RestAssured.
• CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub, Azure DevOps pipelines, release management.
• Performance tools awareness: JMeter, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, DataDog, CloudWatch.

Soft Skills & Competencies

• Strong ownership mindset and ability to lead testing across multiple Foresight features.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams in Agile and hybrid environments.
• Ability to analyze complex issues, propose solutions, and drive continuous improvement.

Considerations for Top Candidates

• Hands-on experience with web based application automation
• Advanced debugging and troubleshooting skills for web based test automation.
• Experience building automated test scripts using Playwright
• Skilled in environment troubleshooting, regression cycles, and upgrade readiness validation.
• Ability to prepare clear test design documents, reusable QA templates, and developer guides for team adoption.
• Strong knowledge of batch job validation, workflow automation, and performance tuning.
• Experience with data migration testing using DMF/Data Management Framework and validation of large transactional datasets.
• Proficiency in API testing (OData, REST/SOAP, AIF/DMF).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for automated regression cycles and release validation.
• Ability to conduct peer reviews of test automation scripts, enforce coding standards, and ensure compliance with Microsoft best practices.
• Skilled in preparing dashboards and test coverage reports for stakeholders, highlighting automation ROI and defect density.
• Familiarity with upgrade readiness testing, hotfix validation, and ensuring compatibility of customizations during cumulative updates.

Experience

• 4 - 7+ years of QA experience with at least 3+ years in an automation-focused role.
• Proven experience in enterprise-scale web applications, including cloud platforms and multi-app ecosystems.

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