diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7339eb19ad2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+name: build_and_test
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [master]
+  pull_request:
+env:
+  TEST_RESULTS: /tmp/test-results # path to where test results will be saved
+jobs:
+  ci:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        go_version: [1.14, 1.15]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v2.1.3
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ matrix.go_version }}
+      - name: Setup Environment
+        run: |
+          echo "GOPATH=$(go env GOPATH)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "$(go env GOPATH)/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: restore cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        env:
+          cache-name: cache-go-mod
+        with:
+          path: /home/runner/go/pkg/mod
+          key: go-pkg-mod-{{ checksum "go.sum" }}
+      - name: Precommit and Coverage Report
+        run: |
+          make ci
+          mkdir -p $TEST_RESULTS
+          find . -name 'coverage.html' > "${TEST_RESULTS}/coverage.lst"
+          tar -n -cf - -T "${TEST_RESULTS}/coverage.lst" | tar -C "${TEST_RESULTS}" -xvf -
+      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
+        with:
+          file: ./coverage.txt
+          fail_ci_if_error: true
+          verbose: true
+      - name: store test output
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+            name: opentelemetry-go-test-output
+            path: ${{ env.TEST_RESULTS }}
+  integration:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        target: [test-gocql, test-mongo-driver, test-gomemcache]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - run: mkdir -p $TEST_RESULTS
+      - name: Integration test ${{ matrix.target }}
+        run: |
+          make ${{ matrix.target }}
+          find . -name 'coverage.html' > "${TEST_RESULTS}/coverage.lst"
+          tar -n -cf - -T "${TEST_RESULTS}/coverage.lst" | tar -C "${TEST_RESULTS}" -xvf -
+      - name: store test output
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+            name: opentelemetry-go-contrib-test-output
+            path: ${{ env.TEST_RESULTS }}
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d809de20358..051065e9dd8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 - Add registry link check to `Makefile` and pre-release script. (#446)
 - A new AWS X-Ray ID Generator (#459)
-
+- Migrate CircleCI jobs to GitHub Actions (#476)
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixes the body replacement in otelhttp to not to mutate a nil body. (#484)