That might be the rootcause of the problems? Lots of people were complaining Node.js not installed - #24 by rparker. And it kind of supports my theory about Katalon expecting to find Node only in /user/local/bin/node.
By the way, did you do anything special to have your node at /user/local/bin/node? I was just using brew to install it and, as a result , node is shown in /opt/homebrew/bin/node, not in /user/local/bin/node.