Automation Engineer - RPA, Python

What You'll Do

Avalara is looking for a Senior Automation Engineer who will help us to maintain automations for Tax Filing system.

You'll deliver high-quality process automations and practice industry best practices.

You will join a team of engineers responsible for delivering solutions in an Agile environment.

You will be reporting to the Engineering manager at Avalara.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

Develop and Implement Automation Solutions:

• Design Automations solutions using Python, Robot Framework or our in-house developed Studio tool.
• Create efficient and scalable automation workflows to automate business processes.
• Be an important participant in creating a Quality First, Zero Defects culture and promote Shift Left approach.
• Active contribution across all phases of the SDLC (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment and support)

Process Analysis and Optimization:

• Collaborate with business and partners to identify and analyze business processes suitable for Automation.
• Conduct process assessments and document detailed requirements for automation solutions.

Maintenance and Support:

• Provide ongoing support and maintenance for deployed automation solutions.
• Monitor the performance of solutions and implement necessary updates and improvements.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work with teams, platform engineering, departments and product management.
• Communicate the issues, dependencies to partners.

This is a fully remote position, allowing you to contribute to key projects while working from anywhere.

What You'll Need to be Successful

• Education
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• Experience & Technical Skills

Must have

• 3 -7 years experience working on Robotic Process Automation tools like UIPath, Robocorp, Blue Prism
• Scripting experience in Python or Robot is must
• Experience in web based automation using Selenium is a must

Nice to have

Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML

Exposure to tools and methodologies.