Lead Automation Engineer

Tyler Technologies, Inc.; Taguig; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Tyler Technologies, Inc. seeks a hands-on Lead Automation Engineer to lead the automation team for cloud-native applications. You will champion quality, lead an Agile/Scrum team, and partner with engineers, product owners, and release stakeholders to ensure quality is verified at every development stage.

This team leader serves as a technical SME for automation, shaping QA strategy, evolving practices, and owning test automation to support fast, reliable delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of automation development experience.
• 4+ years of technical lead experience.
• Proven experience and exemplary track record leading a team; lead by example.
• Technical lead helping the team resolve technical roadblocks.
• Strong experience of Agile SCRUM development processes.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on design, implementation, and execution of complex test cases using Playwright, Selenium, NUnit.
• Design and maintain custom test automation frameworks with cross-stack consistency in C#, Java, or TypeScript.
• Develop and maintain test data strategies using SQL Server for database-driven tests.
• Leverage AI to reduce manual efforts and streamline automation processes.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and Mercurial source control (Hg) with TortoiseHg.
• Test Web APIs (SOAP, OData, REST) and coordinate against unit tests.
• Understand ERP workflows and logic (AP/AR, Billing, HRM).
• Apply Page Object Model and robot pattern in automation design.
• Lead process improvements, agile ceremonies, and ensure traceability of tests.

Skills

Automation leadership

Agile Scrum

QA mentoring

Test automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

NUnit

C#

Java

TypeScript

SQL Server

Mercurial / Hg

TortoiseHg

Job description

Description

We're looking for a hands-on Lead Automation Engineer to Lead our automation team and champion quality for our cloud-native applications. You would lead an Agile/Scrum team, partnering closely with engineers, product owners, release stake holders to ensure quality is verified at every stage of development.

This team leader is also a technical SME(Subject Matter Expert) for the automation team, that will shape quality automation strategy, evolve QA practices, and take ownership of test automation that supports fast, reliable delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on the design, implementation, and execution of highly complex and/or high-profile test cases using Playwright, Selenium, NUnit testing framework expertise.


• Design and maintain custom test automation frameworks, including compile-time consistency strategies across the stack using C#, Java, TypeScript or similar high-level language.


• Develop and maintain test data management strategies using direct database manipulation. SQL Server - proficiency in database setup, management, and database-driven test scenarios.


• Experience in leveraging generative and/or agentic AI in all possible aspects of automation and quality assurance to reduce manual efforts to the minimum and streamline processes.


• Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools and version control systems. Mercurial (Hg) source control with TortoiseHg.


• Experience in Web APIs (SOAP, OData, REST). Co-ordinate with developers in identifying overlaps between Unit tests and automations tests.


• Experience testing complex business workflows and processes. Understanding of typical ERP business logic (AP/AR, Billing, HRM, etc.).


• Experience and Understanding of common automation design patterns such as the Page Object Model and robot pattern implementations.


• Lead process improvements, agile scrum meetings, code reviews, defects detection and identify strategic solutions. Achieve 100% traceability between manual Zephyr test scripts and automated tests.


• Mentor and train QA staff on framework-specific patterns, best practices, and QA initiatives throughout the agile SDLC and take primary responsibility for certifying product releases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or or related field.


• 10 or more years of automation development experience.


• 4 or more years of technical lead experience.


• Proven experience and exemplary track record leading and providing directions to a team. Must lead by example.


• Technical lead helping the team resolve any technical roadblocks.


• Strong experience of Agile SCRUM development processes.


• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills across multiple onshore and offshore teams of developers, QAs and automation engineers.