Senior Software Engineer in Test I

Job description

**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