Emp Type: W2 or 1099........ (No C2C)
Visa: H1B, OPT, H4EAD, GCEAD, L2, Green Card, US Citizens (Only USA Applicants)
Workplace Type: Remote - USA
Experience: 10+ Yrs
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- Responsibilities of the incumbents are to provide manual and/or automation testing of features and capabilities of platform and/or applications.
- • Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work.
- • 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.
- • Analyze business requirement 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.
- • Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.
Typical task breakdown:
- • Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work.
- • 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.
- • Analyze business requirement 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.
Interaction with team:
- Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team. Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.
Work environment:
- Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago - onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase.
Education & Experience Required:
- Degree with 10+ years experience
- Master degree with 8+ years experience
Technical Skills (Required)
4+ years Back-end/API and 3+ years Front-end/UI testing automation experience with BDD Cucumber and Gherkin
3+ years of Back-end/API automation skills: Rest Assured, Java and Spring Boot
3+ years of Front-end/UI automation skills: Cypress or Playwright, Typescript and Web (i.e., HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
Good working experience with Postman, Swagger, RESTful APIs and CICD
Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation framework that
facilitates automation scripting, execution, and analysis of results
Develop of 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 Webservices (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
Soft Skills (Required)
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.
Disqualifiers/Red Flags:
1. maximum 1 or 2 pages Resume
2. summarize each project/client assignment in terms of business outcomes, what challenges they have overcome to achieve the outcomes and how they used their technical/soft skills during the process
3. should mention the overall experience but summarizing last 10 years is fine
4. absolutely no laundry list of tasks and generic use of technical skills.
5. we would reject the resume if it is strictly not matching the above 4 point criteria.
Please forward your resume and contact details to dakshayani_p@surgetechinc.com/ sahithi_s@surgetechinc.com or can call on 832-990-6448
