Senior Software Engineer in Test I
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Summary
Senior test engineer at Emburse designing and building integration, component, and UI test automation for its AI-powered expense and spend-management platform. Day to day involves writing test code and harnesses (largely in Java with Spring, AWS, and microservices), triaging results, debugging across environments, and mentoring junior testers.
Who We Are:
At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in expense intelligence, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. Our AI-powered platform helps organizations modernize financial operations, increase visibility, and optimize spend across the enterprise.
Emburse software engineers contribute to the development of an engaging and interconnected set of system solutions. As an engineer, you will enhance the experiences of your customers, solve interesting challenges, and design new solutions. Emburse, known for its innovation and award-winning technologies, is strong on engineering. This ensures you will have access to the best and brightest minds in our industry to grow your experience and career within Emburse.
What You'll Do
- 6+ years of testing experience in a software domain
- Broad knowledge of Computer Science concepts
- Codes in at least one language; Exposed to multiple languages, testing frameworks and tools
- Design, write and implement integration, component and UI tests
- Understands how key systems interoperate and the business problems they solve and designs tests relevant to the complexity/risk/performance of each system/problem
- Collaborate with Software Engineers, Product Owners and other stakeholders to design test and automation opportunities that measure or improve quality or customer experience of the products
- Identifies and reports issues and defects of high quality/complexity with extensive research and evidence
- Pairs with developers to design systems for testability
- Executes tests, triages and analyses test results
- SDLC processes are followed, including adopting agile-based processes/meetings, peer code-reviews, and technical preparations required for scheduled releases
- Write moderately complex code/scripts to test systems, implementing test harnesses, load tests and test infrastructure as necessary
- Demonstrates high-level debugging and problem-isolation skills in production, test and development environments
- Partners with product and analytics and to drive test and product requirements that take into account all parties' needs
- Establishes test baselines and reports on quality trends and metrics for the project/team
- Ensures tests are repeatable and can be executed and monitored by others
- On-boards and mentors less experienced team members
- Develops sophisticated automation software with minimum supervision
- Strong ability to mentor and guide junior developers and testers
- May have role in supervising others or leading small to moderate projects
- Performs advanced refactoring, identifies and proactively tackles technical debt in automation
- Sets test and automation direction at the project/service level and consistently influences decision-making
- Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact other teams or the company at large. May explore, research, and propose new technologies
- Learns industry jargon and business concepts to better understand the challenges our technology is designed to solve
- Learns QA/automation industry practices and communicates and educates the team
- Build relationships with software development peers and pairs with developers for test planning
- Gives constructive feedback to team members
- Ability to communicate complicated concepts to junior staff
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience
- Minimum of 2 years’ professional experience in Java development
- Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Spring, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT
- Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment
- Good understanding of agile application development lifecycle
- Preferred: Experience Designing and building JSON or REST services, experience working with 3rd party APIs, AWS APIs, Docker or other containers, large-scale or distributed web applications, Test Driven Development and functional testing
- Familiarity with the full stack of web development and proven history of web application development
- Understanding of secure application programming practices or vulnerabilities
- Strong understanding and practical experience with common design patterns
- Ability to solve business problems through creative and forward-looking solutions
- Ability to write clear, concise documentation
Why Emburse?
Finance is changing—and at Emburse, we’re leading the way. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations eliminate inefficiencies, gain real-time visibility, and optimize spend—so they can focus on what’s next, not what’s slowing them down.
• A Company with Momentum – We serve 12M+ users across 120 countries, helping businesses modernize
their finance operations.
• A Team That Innovates – Work alongside some of the brightest minds in finance, tech, and AI to solve real-
world challenges.
• A Culture That Empowers – Competitive pay, flexible work, and an inclusive, collaborative environment that
supports your success.
• A Career That Matters – Your work here drives efficiency, innovation, and smarter financial decision-making
for businesses everywhere.
Shape your future & find what’s next at Emburse.
Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
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