Automation Engineer - RPA

Avalara is an AI-first company.

We expect every engineer, manager, and leader to actively leverage AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool.

You will be

- Leveraging AI copilots, code generation tools, and assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AmazonQ, ChatGPT) to improve coding efficiency, testing, documentation, and prototyping.
- Continuously upskill in AI-related technologies applicable to daily work.

Avalara is looking for a Senior Automation Engineer who will help us develop 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.

This is a remote role.

• Design Automations solutions using Python, Robot Framework and 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)
• Collaborate with business and partners to identify and analyze business processes suitable for Automation.
• Conduct process assessments and document detailed requirements for automation solutions.
• Provide ongoing support and maintenance for deployed automation solutions.
• Monitor the performance of solutions and implement necessary updates and improvements.
• Work with teams, platform engineering, departments and product management.
• Communicate the issues, dependencies to partners.
• Design and deliver intelligent automation solutions by leveraging Gen AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering field or MCA.

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in Web or UI automation

  using any modern programming language such as Python, Java, C# etc .
• Experience with RPA tools such as Selenium, UiPath, Robocorp, or Blue Prism is a plus.
• Scripting experience in any language like Python, Robot, Shell scripting etc is must
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML

Exposure to tools and methodologies.