Lead RPA developer- Python
- Avalara India
- 7 - 12 years
- Kolkata
- 23 days ago
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Job Description
What Youll Do Avalara is looking for a Lead Automation Engineer to build the automation supporting our Tax Filing system.
This is a role ideal for someone who excels in driving and mentoring a team to provide scalable automation solutions.
Youll 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.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Design automation solutions using Python, Robot Framework, and Avalaras in-house automation tool (Studio).
- Create efficient, scalable, and resilient workflows to automate complex business processes within the Tax Filing ecosystem.
- Lead a team of engineers, setting standards for code quality, test coverage, and automation design.
- Contribute to all phases of the SDLC planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
- Foster a Quality First, Zero Defects culture by promoting a Shift Left approach and advocating for early testing practices.
- Collaborate with team members and partners to evaluate automation opportunities across different departments.
- Conduct process assessments and translate them into clear, applicable requirements for automation development.
- Provide ongoing support and maintenance for automation solutions, ensuring they remain and performant over time.
- Monitor solution performance, implementing enhancements or remediations.
- Work with platform engineering, product management, and departmental teams to align automation efforts with our goals.
- C ommunicate technical issues, and dependencies to partners, ensuring transparency and agreement.
What Youll Need to be Successful
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in designing and implementing automation solutions, with at least 1 years in a technical leadership or lead engineer role .
- Expertise in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools such as UIPath, Robocorp, or Blue Prism.
- S cripting skills in Python or Robot Framework ; ability to guide best practices and code quality.
- Solid experience with web-based automation using Selenium and integration of automation with web applications.
- Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs , and handling JSON and XML data formats.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitLab for automation deployment and version control.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies; within iterative,.
- Experience with driving efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement in automation engineering.
#LI-Remote
This is a remote position.
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversit y
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
What You Need To Know About Avalara
We re Avalara. We re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year, and this year we became a billion-dollar business
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Our growth is real, and we re not slowing down until we ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world. We re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
We re An Equal Opportunity Employer
Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company we don t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in designing and implementing automation solutions, with at least 1 years in a technical leadership or lead engineer role .
- Expertise in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools such as UIPath, Robocorp, or Blue Prism.
- S cripting skills in Python or Robot Framework ; ability to guide best practices and code quality.
- Solid experience with web-based automation using Selenium and integration of automation with web applications.
- Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs , and handling JSON and XML data formats.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitLab for automation deployment and version control.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies; within iterative,.
- Experience with driving efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement in automation engineering.
#LI-Remote
This is a remote position.
- Design automation solutions using Python, Robot Framework, and Avalaras in-house automation tool (Studio).
- Create efficient, scalable, and resilient workflows to automate complex business processes within the Tax Filing ecosystem.
- Lead a team of engineers, setting standards for code quality, test coverage, and automation design.
- Contribute to all phases of the SDLC planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
- Foster a Quality First, Zero Defects culture by promoting a Shift Left approach and advocating for early testing practices.
- Collaborate with team members and partners to evaluate automation opportunities across different departments.
- Conduct process assessments and translate them into clear, applicable requirements for automation development.
- Provide ongoing support and maintenance for automation solutions, ensuring they remain and performant over time.
- Monitor solution performance, implementing enhancements or remediations.
- Work with platform engineering, product management, and departmental teams to align automation efforts with our goals.
- C ommunicate technical issues, and dependencies to partners, ensuring transparency and agreement.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Data Science & Analytics
Role Category: Data Science & Machine Learning
Role: Data Science & Machine Learning - Other
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Avalara IndiaLocation(s): Kolkata
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Keyskills: Product management Computer science Automation Version control XML Agile JSON Selenium SDLC Python
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