Tyler Technologies

Builds software and payment tools for governments

Lead Automation Engineer

Test Automation EngineeringUpdated on Nov 12

Full-timePhilippines₱1.8M - ₱2.2M /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
At least 10 years of automation development experience.
At least 4 years of technical lead experience.
Proven experience leading and providing direction to a team.
Strong experience with Agile Scrum development processes.
Interpersonal, verbal, and written communication across multiple onshore and offshore teams of developers, quality assurance staff, and automation engineers.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, and executing highly complex or high-profile test cases using Playwright, Selenium, and NUnit.
Design and maintain custom test automation frameworks, including compile-time consistency strategies across the stack using C#, Java, TypeScript, or a similar high-level language.
Develop and maintain test data management strategies using direct database manipulation, including database setup and management in SQL Server and database-driven test scenarios.
Leverage generative or agentic artificial intelligence in automation and quality assurance to minimize manual effort and streamline processes.
Use continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline tools and version control systems, including Mercurial source control with TortoiseHg.
Work with Web APIs, including SOAP, OData, and REST, and coordinate with developers to identify overlap between unit tests and automation tests.
Test complex business workflows and processes, applying an understanding of typical enterprise resource planning business logic such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, and human resource management.
Apply common automation design patterns, including the Page Object Model and robot pattern implementations.
Lead process improvements, Agile Scrum meetings, code reviews, and defect detection; identify strategic solutions; and achieve 100% traceability between manual Zephyr test scripts and automated tests.
Mentor and train quality assurance staff on framework-specific patterns, best practices, and quality assurance initiatives throughout the Agile software development lifecycle.
Take primary responsibility for certifying product releases.
Lead the automation team and champion quality for cloud-native applications; partner with engineers, product owners, and release stakeholders to verify quality at every stage of development.
Shape quality automation strategy, evolve quality assurance practices, and take ownership of test automation that supports fast, reliable delivery.
Help the team resolve technical roadblocks.

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.

About the Company

Tyler Technologies

Builds software and payment tools for governments

Tyler Technologies builds software for governments and school districts, linking financial administration, courts, public safety, and services residents use online. Its applications connect agency records so staff can share information, manage cases, collect taxes, and coordinate work across departments. Agencies run the software in the cloud or on their own systems, while residents use related websites to submit forms, file court documents, and make payments. Tyler earns money through software subscriptions, payment transaction fees, maintenance, and implementation services, and was founded in 1966 with headquarters in Plano, Texas, United States.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Plano, TX
Founded: 1966

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