Lead Automation Engineer - Playwright

Sysgen RPO, Inc.; Taguig; Hybrid; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sysgen RPO, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Lead Automation Engineer to guide the automation team for cloud-native applications. You will lead an Agile/Scrum team, partnering with engineers, product owners, and release stakeholders to ensure quality at every stage.

The role also serves as a technical SME for automation, shaping quality strategies, evolving QA 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 leading a team and guiding others.
• Strong experience with Agile SCRUM processes.
• Excellent communication across onshore and offshore teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on design, implementation, and execution of complex automated test cases using Playwright, Selenium, and NUnit.
• Design and maintain custom test automation frameworks across stack languages (C#, Java, TypeScript).
• Develop and maintain test data strategies, including SQL Server data handling.
• Lead QA strategy, drive automation excellence, and ensure traceability of tests to releases.
• Mentor QA staff on framework patterns and best practices throughout the SDLC.

Skills

C#

Java

Playwright

Selenium

NUnit

Test automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

NUnit

SQL Server

Mercurial

Job description

Work Location: Taguig - Hybrid

Schedule : Night Shift

Lead Automation Engineer -

Skilled Tools : C# , Java, Playwright, Selenium, etc

Can write test scripts from scratch

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.