Automation Engineer​/automated mainframe functional testing

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.

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.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Seven to nine years of relevant work experience with programming concepts, development logic or automating complex processes

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Hands on experience as an Automation Engineer
• Good understanding of Programming
  
  Languages:
  
  Java, JavaScript and Python
• Extensive experience in Automation Tools & Frameworks:
  Maven, TestNG, Selenium, Appium, Jmeter, Karate
• Exposure to IBM Tools for automated mainframe functional testing:
  Rational/Dev Ops Test Workbench (RTW/DTW), Zowe CLI and/or API, HATS
• Extensive experience working in a collaborative environment (
  Git Lab, Git Hub
  )
• Extensive experience in agile tools (
  Jira, Zephyr, Practi Test
  )
• Extensive API integration and test automation experience (Rest-Assured, Apache, Karate, Postman, Jmeter, SOAP UI, Cucumber, apigee)
• Experience in mentoring and cross-training with engineers newer to the test automation skillset

Location Expectations

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

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 benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• 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

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