Automation Engineer ; TravelBank

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career.

Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Why Travel Bank?

Travel Bank is a fast-paced, innovative company where talented and passionate people come together to build exceptional products. Guided by our mission to craft best-in-class experiences through collaboration, trust, and communication, we foster a close-knit culture where individuals can grow, innovate, and make a real impact.

The Automation Engineer tests, creates, implements and supports robotics process and desktop automations. Performs design, scripting, testing, implementing, maintaining and modifying automations of moderate complexity, significance, and risk. Creates comprehensive test plans and test cases; defines automation data needs across systems and creates a plan to coordinate this test data. Creates and executes performance tests to ensure the expected automation performance levels are achieved.

Performs, and at times, leads clients and technical staff to investigate, analyze, and resolve technical problems. Writes documentation that describes automation capabilities and operating procedures. Estimates and defines time tables and project tasks; analyzes and estimates cost and time. Conducts analysis of organizational needs for the creation and implementation of automation solutions; participates in feasibility assessments of new automation opportunities and helps determine best approach for automation.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks from the ground up to support UI, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop and execute automated test solutions using Type Script, JavaScript, and Playwright to ensure application quality and reliability.
• Implement robust API and backend automation strategies, including service validation and integration testing.
• Drive adoption of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) practices using Cucumber/Gherkin to improve collaboration and test coverage.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing initiatives across development life cycles.
• Lead automation efforts from requirements gathering through implementation, troubleshooting, and production readiness with minimal supervision.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, best practices, engineering standards, and automation strategy guidance
  .
• Evaluate and implement AI-powered testing solutions
  , leveraging tools such as Git Hub Copilot, AI Agents, and MCP-based automation approaches to improve efficiency and quality.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

- Two to three years of relevant work experience with programming concepts, development logic or automating simple to medium complexity processes

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Test Automation Frameworks
  :
  Design, build, and maintain scalable UI, API, and end-to-end automation frameworks.
• Playwright, Type Script & Java Script :
  Expert-level experience developing automated test solutions using modern web technologies.
• API & Backend Testing
  :
  Hands-on experience with API automation, service validation, and tools such as Postman or Bruno
  .
• BDD & Agile Delivery
  :
  Experience implementing Cucumber/Gherkin
  , Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• CI/CD & Dev Ops
  :
  Strong knowledge of Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops
  , continuous testing, and Git-based source control.
• Cloud & Container Technologies
  :
  
  Experience with
  AWS
  , Docker
  , Kubernetes
  , and cloud-native testing strategies.
• AI-Driven Quality Engineering
  :
  Experience leveraging Git Hub Copilot, AI Agents, MCP
  , intelligent test generation, and self-healing automation.
• Quality & Performance Testing
  :
  Knowledge of performance, load, scalability, security, and penetration testing practices.
• Technical Leadership
  :
  Proven ability to lead automation initiatives, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish engineering standards.
• Metrics & Compliance
  :
  
  Experience with quality dashboards, test coverage reporting, automation metrics, and…