RPA Developer II

Req ID: 328581 

      BASIC PURPOSE: Responsible for architecting, developing, and maintaining custom automation solutions within the Company’s Robotic Process Automation (RPA) environment.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designing, developing, and supporting automation workflows built within UiPath RPA platform with minimal oversight
• Deploying and maintaining RPA components including bots, development tools, code repositories and virtual machines
• Participating in ongoing training courses to stay current on design methods offered within UiPath platform
• Creating and executing test cases on automation workflows, including unit tests and user acceptance tests
• Monitoring and performing break-fix and support activities on previously built automation workflows
• Meeting daily with RPA team to provide progress updates and assisting other team members with clearing roadblocks
• Collaborating with other developers, business analysts, and business subject matter experts on new feature functional designs, functional requirements, technical architecture, and implementations of new initiatives
• Identifying and insisting with feasibility analysis on opportunities for automation across many business units.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in management information systems (MIS), computer science, business with a focus on MIS, or closely related
• Experience:
  • 5 years’ progressive post-degree experience in IT developer role that required the development and testing of complex technical solutions on short timelines using one of the following: SQL, C#, Java, Regular Expressions, Python, .Net, or SAP GUI scripting
  • 3 years of experience using Agile/scrum methodology
  • 6 months’ experience designing, developing, and supporting automation workflows built within an RPA platform using UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, Appian, or Microsoft Power Platform (aka Power App, Power Automate, Microsoft Flow), with minimal oversight
  • 6 months’ experience creating and executing test cases on automation workflows, including unit tests and user acceptance tests
  • 6 months’ experience in an RPA role analyzing and identifying bot performance issues on previously built automation workflows
  • 6 months’ experience in an RPA role implementing effective code fixes, analyzing virtual machine utilization, and performing code repository maintenance and strategic bot job schedule maintenance
  • Identifiable experience in RPA role troubleshooting during at least 1 RPA system implementation, RPA software upgrade, or bot deployment

      SKILLS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

•  Skills:
  •       Proficient in building, testing, and supporting software solutions
  •       Understanding of object-oriented design principles
  •       Willingness to learn new things
  •       Ability to work independently on complex development objects
  •       Ability to manage numerous competing demands in a high stress environment
  •       Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Typical Physical Demands:
  • Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping
  • Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds
  • Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard
  • Requires normal range of hearing and vision

Job Function(s): Information Technology 

Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is the industry-leading travel stop network in the United States. For more than 55 years, we’ve provided customers with highway hospitality and “Clean Places, Friendly Faces.” We’re passionate about serving drivers with clean, modern facilities stocked with fuel, food and supplies. We offer meals from popular restaurant chains, trucking supplies, showers and everything needed to get back on the road quickly. The Love’s Family of Companies includes:

• Gemini Motor Transport, one of the industry’s safest trucking fleets
• Speedco, the light mechanical and trucking service specialists
• Musket, a rapidly growing, Houston-based commodities supplier and trader
• Trillium, a Houston-based alternative fuels expert