AI-Focused Test Lead

U.S. Bank • Earth City, MO

2d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Eight or more years of direct experience with project management responsibilities
• 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.
• Working knowledge of test automation concepts, automation candidate selection, and preparation of manual tests for automation readiness.
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience with mortgage, home lending, consumer lending, financial services, or other highly regulated business domains.
• Exposure to Selenium, Playwright, API testing, SQL/data validation, CI/CD quality gates, or similar automation and quality engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead testing strategy and execution for AI-enabled, automation-supported, and traditional technology initiatives.
• Ensure testing practices remain traceable, auditable, risk-based, and aligned to enterprise standards.
• Plan, coordinate, and govern testing activities across AI-enabled solutions, automation initiatives, platform enhancements, integrations, and data-driven delivery efforts.
• 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.
• Partner effectively with technology, automation, data, product, business, risk, and vendor teams to validate both system behavior and AI-supported outputs.
• Coordinate day-to-day testing activities across onshore, offshore, vendor, and cross-functional delivery teams.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior