diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-build.yml b/.github/workflows/test-build.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e8b34687
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-build.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+name: wb_ci_testing
+
+on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
+
+jobs:
+
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    env:
+      GHA_DISTRO: ubuntu-20.04
+    if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'skip ci')"
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [3.6]
+    steps:
+      - name: Git checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Cache Build Requirements
+        id: pip-cache-step
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.pythonLocation }}
+          key: ${{ env.GHA_DISTRO }}-${{ env.pythonLocation }}-${{ hashFiles('requirements.txt', 'dev-requirements.txt') }}
+      - name: install dependencies
+        if: steps.pip-cache-step.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip==18.1
+          pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
+
+  runtests:
+    name: Run unit tests
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    env:
+      GHA_DISTRO: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Set up Python 3.6
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.6
+      - name: Cache pip
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.pythonLocation }}
+          key: ${{ env.GHA_DISTRO }}-${{ env.pythonLocation }}-${{ hashFiles('requirements.txt', 'dev-requirements.txt') }}
+      - name: run syntax checks
+        run: |
+          flake8 .
+      - name: build plugins
+        run: |
+          python setup.py develop
+      - name: run unit tests
+        run: |
+          py.test --cov-report term-missing --cov waterbutler tests
+      - name: Upload coverage data to coveralls.io
+        run: coveralls --service=github
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 04f136e06..000000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-language: python
-
-python:
-  - "3.6"
-
-sudo: false
-
-cache:
-  directories:
-    - $HOME/wheelhouse
-
-before_install:
-    - export WHEELHOUSE=$HOME/wheelhouse
-
-install:
-    - travis_retry pip install -U pip==18.1
-    - travis_retry pip install setuptools==37.0.0
-    - travis_retry pip install wheel==0.26.0
-    - travis_retry pip install invoke==0.13.0
-    - travis_retry invoke wheelhouse --develop
-    - travis_retry invoke install --develop
-
-env:
-  - WATERBUTLER_CONFIG=./travis-config.json BOTO_CONFIG=/dev/null
-
-script:
-  - invoke test
-
-before_cache:
-  # force reinstall for reqs pulled from github repos
-  - rm -f $HOME/wheelhouse/boto-*.whl
-  - rm -f $HOME/wheelhouse/aiohttpretty-*.whl
-
-
-notifications:
-  flowdock: 9f8a6baf3feafdb62e515718698d06d0
-
-after_success:
-  coveralls
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c4d4a0eef..0679f2364 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@
 
 [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/waterbutler/badge/?version=latest)](http://waterbutler.readthedocs.org/en/latest/?badge=latest)
 [![Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com/github/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler/badges/gpa.svg)](https://codeclimate.com/github/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler)
-[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler/badge.svg)](https://coveralls.io/github/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler)
 
-`master` Build Status: [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler)
+`master` Build Status: [![Build Status](https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler/actions/workflows/test-build.yml/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler/actions)[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler?branch=master)
 
-`develop` Build Status: [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler.svg?branch=develop)](https://travis-ci.org/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler)
+`develop` Build Status: [![Build Status](https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler/actions/workflows/test-build.yml/badge.svg?branch=develop)](https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler/actions)[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler/badge.svg?branch=develop)](https://coveralls.io/github/CenterForOpenScience/waterbutler?branch=develop)
 
 ### Compatibility
 
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 22e5836ba..fb98067d5 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 git+https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/aiohttpretty.git@develop
 colorlog==2.5.0
+coveralls
 flake8==3.5.0
 ipdb==0.12.2
 ipython==7.8.0
@@ -13,4 +14,3 @@ pyflakes==1.6.0
 pytest==5.2.1
 pytest-asyncio==0.10.0
 pytest-cov==2.8.1
-python-coveralls==2.9.3
diff --git a/travis-config.json b/travis-config.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 06c307b54..000000000
--- a/travis-config.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "OSFSTORAGE_PROVIDER_CONFIG": {
-    "HMAC_SECRET": "travis"
-  },
-  "SERVER_CONFIG": {
-    "HMAC_SECRET": "travis"
-  }
-}