Software Test Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.•Peoria, IL

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. 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. Caterpillar, Inc. seeks Software Test Engineer at its facility located at 501 SW Jefferson, Peoria, IL 61605. Design, modify, develop, write, and implement software programming applications in Java and Python for target systems using agile methods. Build, scale, and monitor components in AWS, including ECS (Fargate), Lambda functions, DynamoDB tables, Kinesis Data streams, Amazon Data Firehoses, Managed Apache Flink, S3, SNS, and SQS. Acquire client requirements and resolve workflow problems through automation optimization. Write source code for new applications and generate or enhance code samples for existing applications. Utilize Junit, Mockito, and Cucumber to build and test all applications. Validate Business Features with tests. Gather quality metrics as an output of testing to detect things such as gaps in coverage. Write SQL queries in Snowflake to perform actions such as creating Snowflake resources, querying tables and views in Snowflake, and building complex stored procedures. Use tools such as Query Analyzer to measure the performance of SQL queries and procedures and make appropriate optimization enhancements. Write deployment scripts for CI/CD pipelines to build code and deploy services onto AWS using CloudFormation templates.

Requirements

This position requires a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Test Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field plus 3 years of experience as a Test Engineer, building deployment scripts or in a related occupation.
3 years of employment experience with: (1) AWS; (2) Java; (3) Snowflake; (4) Building Deployment Scripts; (5) Spring Framework; (6) SQL; and (7) Ci/CD.

Responsibilities

Design, modify, develop, write, and implement software programming applications in Java and Python for target systems using agile methods.
Build, scale, and monitor components in AWS, including ECS (Fargate), Lambda functions, DynamoDB tables, Kinesis Data streams, Amazon Data Firehoses, Managed Apache Flink, S3, SNS, and SQS.
Acquire client requirements and resolve workflow problems through automation optimization.
Write source code for new applications and generate or enhance code samples for existing applications.
Utilize Junit, Mockito, and Cucumber to build and test all applications.
Validate Business Features with tests.
Gather quality metrics as an output of testing to detect things such as gaps in coverage.
Write SQL queries in Snowflake to perform actions such as creating Snowflake resources, querying tables and views in Snowflake, and building complex stored procedures.
Use tools such as Query Analyzer to measure the performance of SQL queries and procedures and make appropriate optimization enhancements.
Write deployment scripts for CI/CD pipelines to build code and deploy services onto AWS using CloudFormation templates.