diff --git a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..43adabe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+docker:
+  digest: sha256:c66ba3c8d7bc8566f47df841f98cd0097b28fff0b1864c86f5817f4c8c3e8600
+  image: gcr.io/repo-automation-bots/owlbot-python:latest  
+
diff --git a/.github/.OwlBot.yaml b/.github/.OwlBot.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..243bb8bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/.OwlBot.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Copyright 2021 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+docker:
+  image: gcr.io/repo-automation-bots/owlbot-python:latest
+
+begin-after-commit-hash: be22498ce258bf2d5fe12fd696d3ad9a2b6c430e
+
diff --git a/synth.py b/owlbot.py
similarity index 100%
rename from synth.py
rename to owlbot.py
diff --git a/synth.metadata b/synth.metadata
deleted file mode 100644
index 46622b7e..00000000
--- a/synth.metadata
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "sources": [
-    {
-      "git": {
-        "name": ".",
-        "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-sqlalchemy.git",
-        "sha": "8d9ee7c24b00fc9f15acd78e0ea9f8a1f49538c4"
-      }
-    }
-  ],
-  "generatedFiles": [
-    ".coveragerc",
-    ".flake8",
-    ".github/CONTRIBUTING.md",
-    ".github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md",
-    ".github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md",
-    ".github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/support_request.md",
-    ".github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md",
-    ".github/header-checker-lint.yml",
-    ".github/release-please.yml",
-    ".github/snippet-bot.yml",
-    ".gitignore",
-    ".kokoro/build.sh",
-    ".kokoro/continuous/common.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/continuous/continuous.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/docker/docs/Dockerfile",
-    ".kokoro/docker/docs/fetch_gpg_keys.sh",
-    ".kokoro/docs/common.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/docs/docs-presubmit.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/docs/docs.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/populate-secrets.sh",
-    ".kokoro/presubmit/common.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/presubmit/presubmit.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/publish-docs.sh",
-    ".kokoro/release.sh",
-    ".kokoro/release/common.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/release/release.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/lint/common.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/lint/continuous.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/lint/periodic.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/lint/presubmit.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.6/common.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.6/continuous.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.6/periodic-head.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.6/periodic.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.6/presubmit.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.7/common.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.7/continuous.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.7/periodic-head.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.7/periodic.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.7/presubmit.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.8/common.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.8/continuous.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.8/periodic-head.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.8/periodic.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/samples/python3.8/presubmit.cfg",
-    ".kokoro/test-samples-against-head.sh",
-    ".kokoro/test-samples-impl.sh",
-    ".kokoro/test-samples.sh",
-    ".kokoro/trampoline.sh",
-    ".kokoro/trampoline_v2.sh",
-    ".pre-commit-config.yaml",
-    ".trampolinerc",
-    "CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md",
-    "CONTRIBUTING.rst",
-    "MANIFEST.in",
-    "docs/_static/custom.css",
-    "docs/_templates/layout.html",
-    "docs/conf.py",
-    "docs/multiprocessing.rst",
-    "noxfile.py",
-    "renovate.json",
-    "scripts/decrypt-secrets.sh",
-    "scripts/readme-gen/readme_gen.py",
-    "scripts/readme-gen/templates/README.tmpl.rst",
-    "scripts/readme-gen/templates/auth.tmpl.rst",
-    "scripts/readme-gen/templates/auth_api_key.tmpl.rst",
-    "scripts/readme-gen/templates/install_deps.tmpl.rst",
-    "scripts/readme-gen/templates/install_portaudio.tmpl.rst",
-    "setup.cfg",
-    "testing/.gitignore"
-  ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/sqlalchemy_dialect_compliance/test_dialect_compliance.py b/tests/sqlalchemy_dialect_compliance/test_dialect_compliance.py
index 5b8fc89d..e85dd541 100644
--- a/tests/sqlalchemy_dialect_compliance/test_dialect_compliance.py
+++ b/tests/sqlalchemy_dialect_compliance/test_dialect_compliance.py
@@ -114,8 +114,11 @@ def test_literal(self, literal_round_trip):
             # The base tests doesn't set up the literal properly, because
             # it doesn't pass its datatype to `literal`.
 
-            def literal(value):
+            def literal(value, type_=None):
                 assert value == self.data
+                if type_ is not None:
+                    assert type_ is self.datatype
+
                 import sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes
 
                 return sqlalchemy.sql.elements.literal(value, self.datatype)