Software Test Engineer

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Kosice, Slovakia

Seeking a QA Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of backend services, focusing on API testing using the Karate framework, manual validation, and collaboration with developers and product teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement automated test suites for RESTful APIs using Karate, leveraging Gherkin syntax and reusable scenario outlines
  2. Use Postman for exploratory API testing, validation, and test data setup
  3. Collaborate with developers, product owners, and DevOps to validate backend functionality and integration points
  4. Maintain and enhance the existing Karate-based automation framework, including utilities for authentication, response parsing, and data formatting
  5. Support manual testing efforts for backend workflows

Skills

Required

  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Software Product Testing
  • System Testing
  • backend/API testing
  • Karate framework
  • Postman
  • RESTful API principles
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Git-based workflows

Nice to have

  • Playwright
  • Selenium
  • JMeter
  • mocking frameworks
  • AWS