1. Importance of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in software Testing.
SIVAKIRAN TALARI
Senior Consultant
CAPGEMINI Technology Services India Ltd.
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2. Abstract
RPA is a Robotic process automation (RPA).Robotic Process Automation enables us with tools to create our own software robots to automate any business process. Robotic process automation is more than a testing tool. There are various RPA tools available across the industry which enables software teams to build and execute automated tests. These tools are exclusively designed to automate testing which helps to reduce the manual effort. Robotic process automation (RPA) tools have taken the concept of test automation tool to the next level, allowing people to build complex and rules driven business processes with little software development skills. This paper attempts to explain why testing industry needs RPA to attain accuracy, repeatability and speed at presumably less cost.

3. What is RPA?
RPA is robotic process automation. It is not an industrial robotic technology or a physical robot. It is only a nonphysical software robot performing process activities by replacing human intervention or activities with application. There is no much difference in RPA and ITPA(Information technology process automation).After all, they both leverage software tools to automate processes – promoting efficiencies, lowering costs, raising accuracy and elevating quality.

5. Advantage of RPA :- 6.Increased Employee Productivity
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2. Lower Cost
3. Accuracy & Quality
4. Consistency
5. Improved Analytics
6.Increased Employee Productivity
7.Increased Customer Satisfaction
8.Faster
9.Reconciliation from Multiple Systems
10.Versatility
11.Better IT Support and Management

6. RPA conception used in Financial Sector:-
Disadvantages:-
Initial Stage setup
Lack of Skilled resources
Maintenance Cost
Not suitable for dynamically changing tasks
100% Process automation is impractical
RPA conception used in Financial Sector:-
Banking:
Report Generation
Approval Process for Mortgages
Fixed Asset Amortization
Foreign Exchange and Bad debt write-offs
New account (multiple) entry
Journal entry

7. Insurance:
Part of Underwriting Services and policy issuance
Electronic filing of policy documents
Premiums comparison
Update customer data
Update data for new products
Recoveries and Payments Comparison
Capital Markets
Reconciliation activities
Checking customer records across various systems
Customer on-boarding process
Upstream and downstream data comparison

8. FACTS:-
The market for RPA is huge and expected to grow rapidly in the next few years. By 2020 the Global Robotics Automation Market is expected to reach $5 billion, with year-on-year growth of between 55 – 65%.

9. Robotics Process Automation and its implementation challenges
The challenges can range from Business (e.g. to provide clear business process steps), to IT (e.g. to provide correct and reliable IT infrastructure with right setup of security policies), to SDLC (to follow correct development methodology and quality standards).
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Addressing missed requirements (business steps and rules) as well as ‘current business process optimization’ while moving to robotics. 
Testing the solution may also account new set of challenges.
Focus of testing should not derail from testing the robotics solution to testing the underlying applications. 

10. References & Appendix

11. Years of experience: - 10 years Sivakiran.talari@capgemini.com
Author Biography
Sivakiran Talari
Years of experience: - 10 years

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