Junior RPA Developer

GBS (Global Business Services) provides financial, human resources, audit and IT services to the British American Tobacco entities. Our category expertise, large capabilities and international operation makes us a unique business partner who excels in financial leadership and, therefore, offers great shareholder value for BAT.

If you have financial or HR areas background; you thrive when faced with a challenge and you are highly motivated; you want to develop your career in an organisation that will not only recognise the unique attributes you bring but will support your development and reward your contribution,
visit our website @ www.bat-careers.com

Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Leadership
- Configure Possesses very good communication skills with the ability to present technical details to a non-technical audience
- Very structured, fast decision maker, innovative, fast learner
- A good team player, collaborates well in cross-functional teams
Business
- Ability to both understand a business process from a workflow diagram and to conceptualize it as an automated solution
- Basic to average understanding of business processes
Experience
- 6 months of software development experience in an object-oriented programming language (either VBA or other)
- Experience or good understanding of business processes would be a plus

IT professional skills
Critical skills:
- Experience in developing and testing software on a Windows platform and adhering to a structured and documented methodology
- Openness towards learning new technologies
Optional skills:
- Experience with developing and implementing automated RPA processes as a certified developer

Main responsibilities:
- Analyze new process automation candidates, quickly assessing feasibility and accurately estimate development effort
- Configure new processes and objects using core workflow principles that are efficient, well structured, maintainable and easy to understand
- Apply Robotic Process Automation workflow design best practices when developing or maintaining workflows
- Create and document test cases for negative scenarios, in order to document workflow behavior when certain systems malfunction, as well as performance scenarios, in order to stress test systems behavior
- Review automation workflows developed by other RPA Developers to ensure compliance with internal control / security / audit requirements
- Support the business teams during the UAT and rollout phases
- Provide maintenance to production automation workflows by ensuring second level support for workflow incidents; investigate reported errors , agree on error severity and propose resolution
- For workflow support tasks, respect SLAs agreed with business for workflow downtime
- Report issues to third level support (RPA vendor) if incidents cannot be solved by the internal team; ensure development fix, unit testing and production deployment preparation
- Configure enhancements /change requests to already automated processes