Automation Engineer

At U.S. Bancorp India, we're on a journey to do our best. 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. Bancorp India 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** **Primary Responsibilities** **Test Design & Execution** + Analyze user stories, acceptance criteria, technical designs, and business requirements to define effective test scenarios. + Create, maintain, and execute functional, regression, integration, API, UI, smoke, and exploratory test cases. + Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, test execution, and defects. + Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, design reviews, and release readiness discussions to identify quality risks early. **Test Automation** + Develop and maintain automated tests using modern automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, KarateDSL, REST-assured, or similar tools. **(Salesforce Automation)** + Contribute reusable automation components, utilities, test data patterns, and framework improvements. + Increase automation coverage across UI, API, integration, smoke, and regression suites. + Improve test reliability by identifying flaky tests, reducing false failures, and optimizing execution time. **CI/CD & Continuous Testing** + Integrate automated tests into build and deployment pipelines in partnership with engineering and DevOps teams. + Support quality gates by ensuring critical automated tests run consistently before release or deployment. + Review pipeline results, investigate failures, and communicate quality risks to the team. + Contribute to continuous testing practices that support faster feedback and improved delivery predictability. **Defect Management & Quality Metrics** + Log clear, actionable defects with reproduction steps, evidence, severity, and expected results. + Partner with developers and product owners to triage, prioritize, retest, and close defects. + Support root cause analysis for escaped defects and recurring quality issues. + Track and communicate quality indicators such as pass rates, defect trends, automation coverage, and release risk. **Production Readiness & Reliability** + Support release validation, deployment verification, smoke testing, and production readiness activities. + Participate in incident review or post-release validation when quality gaps are identified. + Help improve test coverage based on production findings, customer-impacting issues, and operational risk. + Validate reliability, performance, scalability, and resiliency expectations where applicable. **Compliance, Risk & Governance** + Follow enterprise quality engineering standards, security requirements, and regulatory expectations. + Maintain accurate testing artifacts and evidence to support audit readiness and control expectations. + Validate data integrity, access controls, and workflow behavior where required by product or compliance needs. + Escalate risks, blockers, test environment issues, and quality concerns in a timely manner. **Collaboration & Continuous Improvement** + Work closely with developers, product owners, architects, BAs, DevOps, and QE peers to embed quality throughout the SDLC. + Contribute ideas to improve testing efficiency, team practices, automation maturity, and engineering productivity. + Adopt modern quality engineering practices, including shift-left testing, automation-first delivery, and AI-assisted test productivity where appropriate. + Share knowledge with team members through peer reviews, demos, documentation, and test walkthroughs. **Required Qualifications** + Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. + 3+ years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or SDET-focused roles. + Hands-on experience designing and executing test cases for web, API, integration, and enterprise application workflows. + Experience with at least one automation framework or language such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, KarateDSL, or REST-assured. + Experience with defect and test management tools such as Jira, VersionOne, TestRail, PractiTest, or similar platforms. + Understanding of Agile delivery practices, CI/CD concepts, and modern DevOps quality practices. + Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills. + Experience in fostering early tech adoptions. **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience testing microservices, distributed systems, event-driven workflows, or payment/onboarding platforms. + Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. + Experience with performance, load, or resiliency testing tools and practices. + Experience in financial services, payments, banking, healthcare, or other regulated technology environments. + Exposure to accessibility testing, security testing concepts, test data management, or service virtualization. + Exposure to AI-assisted testing, automated test generation, or productivity tooling for QE teams. 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 (https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/disability-accommodations-for-applicants) . **Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.** This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.