Automation Engineer

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• Analyze, transform, and stage data to drive internally automated processes.
• Leverage general programming best practices and creative coding approaches, activities will include conceptual design, script development and execution, and the validation of production outcomes.
• Oversight of multiple scripts executing in parallel while prioritizing and performing other tasks is a daily requirement.
• Works closely with internal team members, cross-functional stakeholders, functional subject matter experts, and management.
• Knowledge of and understands all enterprise operational procedures and guidelines to deliver accurate and salient automation solutions.
• Identifies performance improvement opportunities and supports implementation

• 1 to 3 years working knowledge of healthcare domain: Claims & Provider systems.
• 3 to 5 years manual testing experience and/or operations experience with automating with rational and Visual Basic.
• Bachelor's Degree required in Healthcare Informatics, Computer Science, or a related field preferred.
• FACETS experience strongly preferred.
• Strong demonstrated experience working with MS Office (Access, Excel, Outlook etc.)
• Experience coding in VBA, Basic, or Visual Basic
• Experience running and constructing queries (SQL, MS Access, etc.) and some knowledge of relational databases
• Experience with script development to automate repetitive or minimally value adding tasks.
• Knowledge of automated testing software and methodologies: QTP/UFT experience preferred and descriptive programming experience very desirable
• Ability to multitask: Monitor multiple parallel running scripts and troubleshoot as needed
• Ability to reverse engineer undocumented processes, code, and query logic for the purposes of break/fix scenarios, maintenance, and upgrades
• Ability to independently analyze data & results to draw business conclusions and make decisions