Lead Software Testing Engineer

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

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.

Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Software Testing expert to lead and drive end-to-end testing strategy, execution, and quality assurance for complex enterprise applications. This role will provide technical leadership to the testing team, ensuring high-quality deliverables aligned with business requirements and enterprise standards.

What You Will Do:

• The role involves executing regression testing, drive script optimization, defining test strategies, and overseeing test execution.
• Will manage defect lifecycle processes, ensure traceability of test cases, and validate critical business scenarios across integrated systems. Additionally, the role requires coordinating with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and external partners to ensure testing readiness and successful release outcomes.
• The ideal candidate will lead, mentor, and guide testing teams, driving best practices, support automation adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential to identify risks, troubleshoot issues, and ensure timely resolution.

Additional Information

The candidate should have a minimum work experience of 5 years in testing and overall work experience of 7 plus years. Candidates should have significant experience in software testing, test management tools, and enterprise systems, along with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. A proactive mindset, quality focus, and ability to lead distributed teams are critical for success.

Technical and functional skills

• Proficiency in Unified Function Testing (UFT) tool
• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Good understanding of Order-to-Cash (O2C) business process integration across SAP systems(ECC, CRM, APO, EWM)

What You Have:
Core Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Helps create contingency plans to mitigate impact of disruption on core applications.
• Identifies key players, criticalities, roles, and responsibilities.
• Investigates application-related issues with both business and IT professionals.
• Recommends enhancements for a major application system or related subsystems.
• Works with core application systems for a major business unit or function.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Analyzes system requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications.
• Designs complex application architectures that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.
• Evaluates and selects appropriate pattern, components, technologies, and tools for application development; integrates them with technical design.
• Leads application design reviews and walkthroughs to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical so…