Automation Engineer 3 (TravelBank)
About The Position
The Automation Engineer tests, creates, implements, and supports robotic process and desktop automations. The role designs, scripts, tests, implements, maintains, and modifies automations of moderate complexity, significance, and risk. It creates test plans and cases, coordinates automation test data across systems, and executes performance tests to verify expected performance levels. The engineer investigates and resolves technical problems with clients and technical staff, documents automation capabilities and operating procedures, estimates project tasks, schedules, costs, and timelines, and assesses organizational needs and the feasibility of potential automation opportunities. For TravelBank, the role designs, builds, and maintains scalable UI, API, and end-to-end test automation frameworks. It develops automated tests using TypeScript, JavaScript, and Playwright, implements API and backend testing strategies, advances BDD practices, and integrates automated testing into CI/CD pipelines. The engineer leads automation efforts from requirements gathering through implementation and production readiness, mentors other engineers, and evaluates AI-powered testing approaches. The role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable UI, API, and end-to-end automation frameworks.
- Expert-level experience with Playwright, TypeScript, and JavaScript for automated testing.
- Hands-on API automation and service validation experience, including tools such as Postman or Bruno.
- Experience implementing Cucumber/Gherkin, BDD, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Knowledge of GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, continuous testing, and Git-based source control.
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native testing strategies.
- Experience with GitHub Copilot, AI Agents, MCP, intelligent test generation, and self-healing automation.
- Knowledge of performance, load, scalability, security, and penetration testing practices.
- Ability to lead automation initiatives, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish engineering standards.
- Experience with quality dashboards, test coverage reporting, automation metrics, and regulated environments such as PCI, PII, or HIPAA.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing.
- Develop and execute automated test solutions using TypeScript, JavaScript, and Playwright.
- Implement API and backend automation, including service validation and integration testing.
- Promote Behavior-Driven Development using Cucumber and Gherkin.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing.
- Lead automation initiatives from requirements gathering through implementation, troubleshooting, and production readiness.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, best practices, engineering standards, and automation strategy guidance.
- Evaluate and implement AI-powered testing approaches and tools.
- Create test plans and test cases, coordinate test data across systems, and execute performance tests.
- Investigate, analyze, and resolve technical problems with clients and technical staff.
- Document automation capabilities and operating procedures.
- Estimate project tasks, timelines, costs, and time requirements.
- Analyze organizational needs and participate in feasibility assessments for automation opportunities.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.
- Basic term and optional term life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave.
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan.
- Paid vacation of 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 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
- Incentive and recognition programs.
- Equity stock purchase.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
