Quality Assurance Lead (W2 Only)

Job Description:

• Responsibilities of the incumbents are to provide manual and/or automation testing of features and capabilities of platform and/or applications. Be responsible for overseeing and mentoring junior developers and handle code reviews.
• Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
• Acts as team leader for testing activities including leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
• Competent to perform all testing activities of new and existing software products.
• Use your understanding of systems, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives testing needs focused around delivering business valuable features
• Guide the team to develop test strategies in an agile work environment
• Analyze business requirements to develop and execute manual and automation test cases
• Document software issues and defects in bug tracking software and monitor for the resolution.
• Coordinate with product owner to resolve open issues/enhancements/upgrades and understand the use of a specific functionality as needed
• Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness
• Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
• Employees are also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.

Basic qualifications:

• Position requires a four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
• 10 years or more of software testing experience (manual or automation) or at least 7 years of experience with master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing test strategies and leading software test projects
• 7 years or more of test automation framework design and development experience
• 7 years or more of prior either functional or object- oriented coding experience in modern programming languages like C++, Java or Python (preferably Java)
• Strong development skills in two or more of the following technologies and tools: Java/Junit, Python, Cucumber, JBehave or other BDD testing frameworks

Top candidates will also have:

• Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation framework that facilitates automation scripting, execution, and analysis of results
• Developing test automation code for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), of systems, infrastructure, and test framework.
• End-to-end system integration testing experience for software platforms
• Proven experience developing test scripts, test cases, and test data
• Strong experience in testing Web Services (REST APIs)
• The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases
• Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties
• Experience in TDD, continuous integration, code review practice is strongly desired
• Experience with Apigee or other API gateways is a plus
• Experience with DevOps concepts and tools (e.g., CI/CD, Jenkins, Git)
• At least 2 years working on an Agile team with a solid understanding of Agile/Lean practices.
• Understanding of a micro service Architecture
• Experience load and performance testing
• Strong documentation skills
• Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment
• Pro-active, flexible and creative
• Very strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with developers and business users.