Automation Anywhere + PAD + Prompt Engineering

Greetings from Cognizant !!

We are Currently hiring for Automation Anywhere + PAD + Prompt Engineering 

Experience: 5.5 years to 13 years

Job Location : Gurgao 

Primary Platform: Automation Anywhere (A360)

Secondary Platform: Microsoft Power Platform

Role Overview

The requirement is for a senior RPA Developer with strong hands-on expertise in Automation Anywhere A360, capable of independently owning the end-to-end RPA development lifecycle—from process understanding and solution design through development, testing, deployment, run support, and optimization.

The ideal candidate combines deep RPA technical skills with strong design thinking, API-led automation, Gen AI and prompt engineering, and Power Platform integration, delivering scalable, secure, and maintainable automations with minimal supervision.

 Desired Experience Summary

• 4+ years of hands-on RPA development experience
• Strong Automation Anywhere A360 expertise (mandatory)
• Microsoft Power Platform experience (strong advantage)
• Experience automating web, desktop, API-based, and PDF/document-driven processes
• Hands-on exposure to Gen AI, prompt engineering, SQL, OCR, and scripting
• Proven ability to learn quickly, adapt to new technologies, and continuously innovate

Core Technical Requirements

Automation Anywhere A360 (Must-Have)

• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing automations using Automation Anywhere A360
• Strong expertise in:
  • Bot Creator, Bot Runner, Control Room administration
  • Task Bots and reusable automation components
  • Workload Management and queue-based processing
• Experience across the full RPA lifecycle:
  • Solution Design
  • Development
  • Testing (Unit, System, UAT support)
  • Deployment
  • Run Support, Incident Management, and Maintenance
• Ability to design automations that are:
  • Scalable
  • Reusable
  • Secure
  • Easy to maintain
• Strong debugging, exception handling, and root-cause analysis skills
• Experience following RPA governance standards, best practices, and code reviews

 Microsoft Power Platform (Secondary – Strong Preference)

• Hands-on experience with:
  • Power Automate (Cloud and Desktop flows)
  • Power Apps (basic to intermediate)
  • Power BI (data consumption and automation triggers – good to have)
• Experience integrating Power Platform solutions with RPA bots
• Understanding of Power Platform security, environments, and connectors

 API Automation & System Integration (Critical)

• Strong experience automating REST and SOAP APIs
• Ability to:
  • Implement authentication mechanisms (OAuth, tokens, certificates)
  • Handle JSON and XML payloads
  • Design retry logic, error handling, and logging
• Experience integrating RPA with enterprise systems, databases, and cloud services

 Gen AI & Prompt Engineering (Critical)

• Hands-on experience integrating Gen AI capabilities into RPA solutions
• Strong prompt engineering skills for automation use cases, including:
  • Data extraction from unstructured content
  • Document classification and summarization
  • Decision support and validation workflows
• Ability to design prompts that:
  • Produce structured and predictable outputs (JSON, tables, key-value pairs)
  • Minimize hallucinations through validation and control logic
  • Use multi-step and chained prompts where required
• Understanding of AI limitations and responsible use in production automations