AI-Focused Test Lead

Location: St. Peters

## AI-Focused Test Lead Apply locations:
Earth City, MOtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todaytime left to apply:
End Date:
July 9, 2026 (9 days left to apply) job requisition :
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.##
** Job Description
** This AI-Focused Test Lead will help advance quality, efficiency, and delivery confidence across Home Lending Delivery platforms. This role will lead testing strategy and execution for AI-enabled, automation-supported, and traditional technology initiatives while ensuring testing practices remain traceable, auditable, risk-based, and aligned to enterprise standards. The AI-Focused Test Lead is accountable for planning, coordinating, and governing testing activities across AI-enabled solutions, automation initiatives, platform enhancements, integrations, and data-driven delivery efforts.

This individual will serve as the tactical quality leader for assigned initiatives, ensuring test planning begins early, acceptance criteria are testable, risk is clearly understood, defects are managed effectively, and business stakeholders have confidence in release readiness.  The role blends traditional test leadership with emerging AI quality practices, partnering effectively with technology, automation, data, product, business, risk, and vendor teams to validate both system behavior and AI-supported outputs.

This role will also coordinate day-to-day testing activities across onshore, offshore, vendor, and cross-functional delivery teams.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Eight or more years of direct experience with project management responsibilities

Preferred Skills/Experience
* Ability to conduct an analysis of business needs, including scheduling meetings, planning agendas, conferring with business line leaders, documenting and making verbal and written presentations
* Strong software testing leadership, hands-on understanding of test automation and data validation, curiosity and experience with AI-enabled functionality testing, and the ability to guide cross-functional teams through evolving delivery models.
* Experience with mortgage, home lending, consumer lending, financial services, or other highly regulated business domains.
* Working knowledge of test automation concepts, automation candidate selection, and preparation of manual tests for automation readiness.
* Exposure to Selenium, Playwright, API testing, SQL/data validation, CI/CD quality gates, or similar automation and quality engineering tools.
* Ability to develop test schedules, review testing plans, track test issues, and report on test results
* Strong knowledge of the software delivery lifecycle, Agile delivery practices, test planning, test case design, defect management, regression testing, and UAT coordination.
* Proficient computer navigation skills using a variety of software packages including Microsoft Office applications
* Strong project management, organization, and analytical skills
* Effective interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation communication skills
* Effective leadership and negotiation skills
* In-depth knowledge of a business line or function area
** Location expectations:
** This role requires working from the Earth City, MO locations three (3) or more days a week.
** This role does not support Visa Sponsorship
** If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.
** Benefits:
** Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our…