Senior SDET (IC4) - Senior Software Engineer in Test

Emburse is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our engineering team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between software development and quality assurance, designing and implementing robust automated testing frameworks that ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our applications. As an SDET, you’ll collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and QA engineers to build efficient test solutions, drive continuous integration, and maintain a high standard of product quality across all releases.

At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future - you’ll build it. As a leader in travel and expense solutions, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. 

What You’ll Do : 

Work as the quality champion and SDET within a product scrum team on a large-scale highly distributed enterprise software solution

Establish test plans/approach for features and functionality

Ensure code changes are thoroughly tested and released efficiently and with high quality

Conduct system/E2E testing, and coordinate and execute release and deployment activities for Emburse releases

Design and implement automation for integration and workflow tests

Assess load/performance testing requirements and create tests to exercise and evaluate system performance under load

Pair with developers to ensure applications and features are designed for testability

Collaborate with Software Engineers, Product Owners and other stakeholders to ensure our products and services are delivered with high quality

Participate in peer code reviews and identifying opportunities to improve the reliability and maintainability of our test automation architecture

Drive and lead test automation projects and architecture improvements and refactoring to improve test reliability, maintainability and performance

Onboard and mentor new and junior team members

May have a role in supervising others or leading small to moderate projects

Establish test and automation strategies at a project or service level and influence decision making and technical direction

Communicate and educate team on QA/Automation industry best practices

Identify and evaluate new tools and approaches for testing, test automation and release management, and help introduce them to the larger team

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or relevant experience

4+ years of Testing/Quality Engineering experience in software domain

Broad knowledge of Computer Science concepts and technologies 

Experience working in Scrum/Agile and DevOps environment

Experience designing and implementing automated tests using standard automation tools such as Pytest, Selenium, Playwright or others

Familiarity with object-oriented programming languages and concepts (Python, Java, etc..)

Comfortable with SQL and writing SQL queries 

Exposure to RESTful APIs and experience with Postman/Curl or other equivalent tools

Some experience with load/performance testing and tools

Able to find opportunities for improvement and tackle them without external direction

Experience with front-end and back-end automation frameworks (Selenium, QA Robot, Playwright, Pytest, RestAssured, etc…) 

Comfortable with CI/CD, build, package, configuration and release management tools (eg. Jenkins, Ansible, Gitlab/Github)

Knowledge/Experience with K8S/Docker, AWS, Infrastructure as code

Exposure to infrastructure observability tools such as Grafana, OpenSearch, Coralogix, Datadog

Bonus Points

• Test Lead or management experience

Sponsorship

• This role is not sponsorship eligible

• Candidates need to be legally allowed to work in Canada