diff --git a/modules/flowable-spring-boot/flowable-spring-boot-starters/flowable-spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/flowable/spring/boot/FlowableJobConfiguration.java b/modules/flowable-spring-boot/flowable-spring-boot-starters/flowable-spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/flowable/spring/boot/FlowableJobConfiguration.java
index 0f9489ef973..ea5de73002c 100644
--- a/modules/flowable-spring-boot/flowable-spring-boot-starters/flowable-spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/flowable/spring/boot/FlowableJobConfiguration.java
+++ b/modules/flowable-spring-boot/flowable-spring-boot-starters/flowable-spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/flowable/spring/boot/FlowableJobConfiguration.java
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ public AsyncTaskExecutorConfiguration flowableAsyncTaskInvokerTaskExecutorConfig
     public AsyncTaskExecutor flowableAsyncTaskInvokerTaskExecutor(
             @Qualifier("flowableAsyncTaskInvokerTaskExecutorConfiguration") AsyncTaskExecutorConfiguration executorConfiguration
     ) {
-        return new DefaultAsyncTaskExecutor(executorConfiguration);
+        DefaultAsyncTaskExecutor defaultAsyncTaskExecutor = new DefaultAsyncTaskExecutor(executorConfiguration);
+        defaultAsyncTaskExecutor.start();
+        return defaultAsyncTaskExecutor;
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/modules/flowable-spring-boot/flowable-spring-boot-starters/flowable-spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/flowable/test/spring/boot/process/ProcessEngineAutoConfigurationTest.java b/modules/flowable-spring-boot/flowable-spring-boot-starters/flowable-spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/flowable/test/spring/boot/process/ProcessEngineAutoConfigurationTest.java
index 08b1c1536d8..98920de6ea4 100644
--- a/modules/flowable-spring-boot/flowable-spring-boot-starters/flowable-spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/flowable/test/spring/boot/process/ProcessEngineAutoConfigurationTest.java
+++ b/modules/flowable-spring-boot/flowable-spring-boot-starters/flowable-spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/flowable/test/spring/boot/process/ProcessEngineAutoConfigurationTest.java
@@ -608,6 +608,7 @@ void processEngineShouldUseSpringTaskExecutor() {
                                 assertThat(taskExecutor.getMaxPoolSize()).isEqualTo(8);
                                 assertThat(taskExecutor.getQueueSize()).isEqualTo(100);
                                 assertThat(taskExecutor.getThreadPoolNamingPattern()).isEqualTo("flowable-async-task-invoker-%d");
+                                assertThat(taskExecutor.submit(() -> true).join()).isTrue();
                             });
                 });
     }