Lead Playwright Automation Engineer — Hybrid/Night Shift

Sysgen RPO, Inc.; Taguig; Hybrid; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sysgen RPO, Inc. in Taguig is hiring a hands-on Lead Automation Engineer to guide the automation team and champion quality for cloud-native applications.

You will lead an Agile/Scrum squad, partnering with engineers, product owners, and release stakeholders to ensure quality is verified at every stage of development. This team leader will shape quality automation strategy, evolve QA practices, and own 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 and providing directions to a team.
• 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.

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.

Skills

C#

Java

Playwright

Selenium

TypeScript

Test Automation

Mentoring

Agile SCRUM

QA Leadership

SQL

Education

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

Tools

Mercurial

TortoiseHg

Job description

Sysgen RPO, Inc. in Taguig is hiring a hands-on Lead Automation Engineer to guide the automation team and champion quality for cloud-native applications.

You will lead an Agile/Scrum squad, partnering with engineers, product owners, and release stakeholders to ensure quality is verified at every stage of development. This team leader will shape quality automation strategy, evolve QA practices, and own test automation to support fast, reliable delivery.