Automation Engineer

Experience : 5 to 7 years.

Key Responsibilities :

Solution Architecture & Design :

- Process Assessment : Evaluate manual business processes to determine automation feasibility and ROI.

- Documentation : Author Process Design Documents (PDD) and Solution Design Documents (SDD) outlining exact technical workflows.

- Architecture Planning : Define the deployment strategy, identifying required infrastructure, bot licenses, and security protocols.

Development & Implementation :

- Bot Construction : Develop complex attended, unattended, and hybrid bots using the Automation 360 (A360) platform.

- Cognitive Automation : Train and deploy Document Automation (formerly IQ Bot) models to extract unstructured data from PDFs and scanned documents.

- Human-in-the-Loop : Build Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface (AARI) forms to allow seamless interaction between human workers and digital bots.

- Custom Scripting : Write inline Python, JavaScript, or VBScript code blocks within A360 to handle edge cases that native actions cannot process.

Testing & Deployment :

- Testing Protocols : Conduct rigorous Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

- Control Room Management : Package and deploy bots through the Automation Anywhere Control Room across Dev, QA, and Production environments.

- Error Handling : Implement global exception handling frameworks to ensure bots fail safely and alert administrators with detailed logs.

Maintenance & Optimization :

- Production Support : Monitor live digital workforces, troubleshoot runtime errors, and resolve data-driven bot exceptions.

- Code Optimization : Refactor existing code to reduce execution runtime, optimize memory usage, and lower API consumption.

Technical Skill Matrix :

- Control Room Administration : Configuring User Vaults, lockers, Device Pools, Workload Queues (WLM), SLA definitions, and scheduling.

- Core Package Utilization : Advanced manipulation of Excel Advanced, Loop, Terminal Emulator, Files/Folders, XML, and Window Actions.

- Recorder Mastery : Fine-tuning Object Cloning, Universal Recorder, and Image Recognition capturing across complex UI frameworks (Java, SAP, Citrix, Silverlight).

- Security & Governance : Implementation of the Credential Vault, secure handling of attributes, OAuth 2.0 integration, and audit trail analysis.

- Document Automation (IQ Bot) : Designing, training, and deploying learning instances; defining extraction fields; continuous training using validator logs.

- AARI (Robotic Interface) : Designing interactive multi-step forms, user steps, and bot steps to embed digital assistants into human desktop workflows.

- Process Discovery : Leveraging Automation Anywhere Discovery Bot to ingest user recordings, analyze process variants, and automatically generate skeleton PDDs.

- Python / JavaScript Integration : Writing clean, inline scripts executed via Python or JavaScript packages to handle complex data manipulation or math arrays.

- VBScript & Macros : Creating and invoking VBScript modules for background legacy Excel manipulation and Windows shell script tasks.

- Regular Expressions (RegEx) : Constructing advanced parsing string expressions to extract specific patterns from unstructured text or email bodies.

- Database Programming : Crafting transactional ANSI-SQL queries, executing stored procedures, handling connection strings, and processing Database Datasets.

- API Consumption : Orchestrating REST and SOAP web services, managing API authentication tokens, and parsing nested JSON or XML payloads.

- Web Elements (DOM) : Deep understanding of HTML structures, XPaths, and CSS Selectors to manually repair broken web element capture paths.

- Exception & Logging Lifecycle : Designing global multi-tier error catching modules (Try-Catch-Finally) paired with automated screenshot captures and log ingestion.

- Version Control & CI/CD : Operating Control Room Git integrations, checking code in/out, handling package dependency versions, and staging code across Dev/QA/Prod.

Skills

IT Automation, Solution Design, Cognitive Automation, Automation Anywhere, Silverlight, Python, Macros