Caterpillar

Career Area:

Engineering

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.

Role Definition

• Accountable for end to end System Integration validation of offboard and onboard products.
• Coordinate with RTE and Product Owners for Validation requirements and ensure timely validation by meeting Quality goals

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating and defining Features and user stories based on customer requirements. This involves understanding user needs and translating them into actionable tasks for the development team.
• Drive the development of technical specifications and ensure alignment with the overall product strategy.
• Provide technical guidance to the development team throughout the product lifecycle
• Work closely with the Technical Product Owner Manager to ensure timely and successful product delivery
• Responsible to manage and prioritize the product backlog, which is a prioritized list of features, user stories, and tasks
• Actively participate in product planning and roadmap discussions.
• Accountable for maximizing the value of the product developed by the team. This includes making decisions about what features to implement and ensuring that the product meets the strategic goals of the program.
• Test Bench Setups & System Integration Validation
• Troubleshooting Production Issues & Root Cause Analysis

Required Experience/ Skills:

• Hands on System Level Integration Validation of automotive / construction / mining / industrial embedded control systems
• Hands on Experience in Networking concepts & protocols (TCP/ IP, UDP, sockets)
• Hands on Experience in Embedded Communication Protocols (CAN/J1939/Serial Communication Protocols / Modbus/OPC/OSI Pi)
• Highly experienced in Telematics System Validation
• Ability to identify, track defects at a System Integration Validation with excellent analytical skills and eye for detail to debug / find root cause
• Exposure to data visualization validation
• Hands on Experience in Test Automation framework and development
• Exposure to Python Test Automation, OOPS concepts

Degree Requirement

• Bachelor degree (or equivalent) in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, Electrical & Electronics curriculum
• Relevant work experience required : 3 to 5 years

Skill Descriptors:

Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Describes how own unit's products and services fit within the organization's as a whole.
• Cites examples of how clients are using the organization's products and services.
• Collects research product information, service information and marketing literature.
• Identifies organization's flagship products and services.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
• Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
• Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
• Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
• Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components.
• Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services.
• Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues in one's general area of technical competence.
• Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.

Product Testing: Knowledge of product testing approaches, techniques and tools; ability to design, plan and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure product quality at all stages of manufacturing.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Documents test process and results; prepares and analyzes defect-tracking reports.
• Summarizes features of a specific product-testing process and associated procedures.
• Tests components for compliance with functional requirements and established conventions.
• Discusses and compares usability, safety and integration testing.
• Develops product-testing procedures; participates in selecting testing environment and tools.

Posting Dates:

June 25, 2025 - July 8, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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