What will you in Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Overview and Build a Robot Course
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Grasp RPA fundamentals: attended vs. unattended bots, ROI considerations, and use-case identification
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Navigate leading RPA platforms (UiPath Community Edition) and key components (Studio, Orchestrator, Robots)
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Map and document a business process, prepare data, and design an automation workflow
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Build your first end-to-end unattended bot: recording, selectors, variables, arguments, and error handling
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Integrate RPA with Excel, email, and web applications for data-driven automation
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Deploy, schedule, and monitor your robot via Orchestrator; implement retry logic and logging best practices
Program Overview
Module 1: Introduction to RPA & UiPath Setup
⏳ 30 minutes
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What is RPA? Business benefits and typical use cases
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Installing UiPath Studio Community and configuring your development environment
Module 2: Process Mapping & Solution Design
⏳ 45 minutes
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Documenting the “as-is” process with flowcharts and SIPOC
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Designing the “to-be” automation with exception paths and decision points
Module 3: UiPath Basics – Recording & Selectors
⏳ 1 hour
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Using Basic and Desktop recorders to capture user actions
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Understanding and fine-tuning selectors for reliable element identification
Module 4: Variables, Arguments & Data Handling
⏳ 45 minutes
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Creating and managing variables and arguments for data flow
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Reading from and writing to Excel and CSV files using the Excel activities
Module 5: Control Flow & Error Handling
⏳ 45 minutes
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Implementing If, For Each, and While loops for dynamic workflows
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Using Try Catch, Retry Scope, and Global Exception Handler for robustness
Module 6: Advanced Activities & Orchestrator Integration
⏳ 1 hour
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Automating email processing via Outlook activities and HTTP requests
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Publishing packages to Orchestrator, creating environments, and deploying robots
Module 7: Scheduling & Monitoring
⏳ 30 minutes
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Setting up scheduled triggers in Orchestrator
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Monitoring job status, logs, and handling alerts for failures
Module 8: Final Project – Build & Deploy a Complete Robot
⏳ 1 hour
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End-to-end automation: data extraction, processing, and reporting
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Best practices for documentation, version control, and handover
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Job Outlook
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RPA Developer, Automation Engineer, and RPA Architect roles are rapidly growing as organizations seek efficiency gains
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In demand across finance, healthcare, insurance, and shared-services for automating high-volume, rule-based tasks
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Provides a foundation for advanced hyperautomation: integrating RPA with AI/ML, process mining, and low-code platforms
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Equips you to join or lead an RPA Center of Excellence (CoE) and drive digital transformation initiatives
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