Automation Engineer

Neurealm; Chennai District; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Neurealm in Chennai is seeking automation professionals to design, implement, and maintain digital workers using Automation Anywhere tools. You will craft end-to-end automation solutions, combining attended, unattended, and hybrid bots with document automation models to extract data from PDFs and scanned documents.

You will collaborate on security, governance, and control room operations while optimizing performance and reducing runtime.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate manual processes for automation feasibility and ROI.
• Develop, test, and deploy attended, unattended, and hybrid bots.
• Train and deploy document automation models and build human-in-the-loop interfaces.
• Monitor bots in production and optimize performance and logs.

Skills

Control Room Administration

Excel Advanced

Object Cloning

Universal Recorder

Image Recognition

Web Elements (DOM)

RegEx

API Consumption

Database SQL

VBScript & Macros

Security & Governance

Tools

Automation 360 (A360)

IQ Bot

AARI (Robotic Interface)

Control Room

VBScript

SQL

REST & SOAP APIs

Citrix

Java

SAP

Silverlight

Job description

• 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.

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 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.
• 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.