Rahul Vaidya
Missisauga,ON
Summary
1. Robotic Process Automation Leader: Over 13 years of seasoned expertise in Microsoft Power Platform, Automation Anywhere A360, UiPath and BluePrism.
2. Multi-Tool Proficiency: Proficiently implemented RPA solutions using Automation Anywhere A360, A11, UiPath, Blue Prism, and MS Power Automate.
3. Innovative Solution Design: Recognized for creating innovative RPA solution designs and robust frameworks, driving efficiency and effectiveness across complex processes.
4. Certifications: A360 Certified Master RPA Professional (2022) and UiPath MVP (Dec 2019) with a Certified UiPath Advanced Developer credential.
5. Strategic Project Leadership: Led high-profile RPA initiatives, ensuring on-time and quality delivery, and gaining recognition as a key driver of digital transformation across the BFSI sector.
6. Agile Champion: Experienced Agile leader adept in Scrum and Kanban methodologies, fostering efficient collaboration and utilizing tools like Jira, TFS, and Kanban for streamlined project execution.
7. Impactful Contributions at TIAA:
- Implemented Invoice Processing Bot to process all Vendor PO and Non-PO invoices through AI Builder and IQ Bot extraction.
- Orchestrated the automation of Tax processes using A360 and Python utility, enhancing document retrieval and extraction.
- Spearheaded the end-to-end automation of centralized invoice processing, integrating IQ Bot for intelligent PDF data extraction and intricate business validations.
- Elevated operational efficiency through Power Automate automation for TIAA Funds processes.
8. Strategic Tech Leadership at WTW: Played a pivotal role in designing and implementing RPA projects across North America and Great Britain units, utilizing both Automation Anywhere and UiPath toolsets.
9. Marketplace Contributions: Developed and deployed custom activities for UiPath, contributing to the UiPath Marketplace with widely adopted solutions.
10. Holistic Skillset: Backed by an extensive skillset encompassing BFSI domains, diverse RPA tools, programming languages (Python, Java, VB.Net), automation frameworks, performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadUI Pro, Rest Assured), CI/CD technologies, and more.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
8
8
Certificate
Work History
Senior Associate - Program Manager RPA
TIAA
10.2022 - Current
RPA Solution Architect and Tech Lead
- Centralized Invoice Processing - Automated an invoice processing Bot using AA IQ Bot to process all types of invoices for TIAA - Tax Invoice, Debit/Credit Notes, Proforma. Estimated saving per year ~$450k
- TIAA Funds Administration - Automated a complex Fund Invoice processing Bot using Microsoft AI Builder and Power Platform Cloud flows to capture Fund info. from invoice pdfs and emails by applying various business rules around fund allocation and fetching appropriate Fund tickers. This information is then entered into Peoplesoft Application for further processing by the bot. Estimated saving per year - ~$750k
- Third Party Tax Tool Process - Automated a Tax bot using A360 to download Invoice documents from Oracle Finance app and further extracting embedded documents from PDFs and Emails using Python Utility
- Automated PO Matching and complex Business validations were automated in this process
- This initiative is now selected as part of CEO's Top 5 Ascend initiatives for Digital change across TIAA.
- TIAA Funds Automation using Power Automate - Capturing Assets and Fund allocation details from Invoices using Power Automate - AI Builder. Processing them further on Finance Application.
- Leading team of 10 RPA Developers.
Program Manager - RPA
Willis Towers Watson
04.2020 - 05.2022
RPA Tech lead
- Performed RPA Assessments and created Business cases.
- Solution designed and implemented RPA projects for North America and Great Britain Business unit.
- Worked on both AAv11 and UiPath v2021.3 toolsets for delivery as we had Hybrid approach and partnerships.
- Implemented RPA dashboards with Microsoft Power BI and MySQL DB to provide key insights on ROI for all RPA processes.
- Automated 10+ processes providing 15 FTE benefits and deployed multiple bots into production - $225k annual benefit.
- Developed OCR utility on Python with Tesseract OCR for data extraction from Quotation documents, transformation and comparison with previous year Quote documents.
- Delivered projects using Agile with Azure DevOps & Jira for project management.
Lead Engineer
ADROSONIC IT Consultancy Services
03.2016 - 04.2020
RPA Architect & Automation Lead.
- Interacted with clients to assess business requirements and determine software needs
- Collaborated closely with Onshore leadership to drive strategy through development and implementation of new processes
- Presented Leadership with Business cases for approval to drive RPA Projects
- Developed and deployed 3 custom activities for UiPath on C# .Net, on UiPath Marketplace, currently with 1k+ downloads.
- Implemented Parallel test automation framework using Selenium Grid. Performed automated API testing using Postman, SoapUI Pro and RestAssured.
- Automated Performance requirements using JMeter and SoapUI Pro.
Automation Test Lead
Collabera Technologies
03.2015 - 03.2016
Sr. Automation Engineer
Sterling Information Resources
07.2014 - 03.2015
Sr. Automation Engineer
JP Morgan Chase Bank
07.2013 - 07.2014
Automation Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2010 - 07.2013
Skills
- BFSI Domain: Marine, Retail & Wholesale Insurance, Capital Markets, Retail & Wholesale Banking, Payments
- RPA: Automation Anywhere - A360 and A11, Power Automate, UiPath, Blue Prism
- IDP / NLP / OCR: Microsoft AI Builder, A360 IQ Bot, Infrrd, ABBYY, UiPath - Document Understanding, Textract and Tabula Python packages
- Languages: Python, Java, VBNet, SQL, Office Scripts
- QA Automation: Selenium Web-driver, UFT, SoapUI Pro, Robot Framework
- QC Performance: JMeter, LoadUI Pro, Rest Assured
- CI/CD & Version Control: GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Azure Cloud
- Project Management / Agile: Jira, VS Code, ADO, VSTS/TFS, VersionOne
- Python Framework: Django, Flask
- Banking Payment Experiene - SWIFT, SEPA, ACH, RTGS, NEFT, IMPS
Certification
- Automation Anywhere Certified Master RPA Professional (Automation 360) - 2022
- Automation Anywhere Certified Advanced RPA Professional (Automation 360) - 2022
- RPA Advanced Developer Certification - UiPath
- Advanced RPA Professional v2019 - Automation Anywhere
- Certified SCAMPI ATM Member - CMMIv3
- Lean Six Sigma - Yellow Belt Certified
- SoapUI Pro Certified
- Trained Selenium Webdriver Expert
Accomplishments
- TITANS Annual Award 2023: TIAA for Designing the Centralized Invoice processing bot delivered in 2023 processing all TIAA Invoices end to end.
- OpEx New Stars 2021: WTW
- Employee of the Year 2019: ADROSONIC
- Performer of the Year 2018: ADROSONIC
- Gems Award 2017: ADROSONIC
- Gems Award 2016: ADROSONIC
- Zing Performance Award: JP Morgan Chase
- 3 Star Performance Awards: TCS
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Mumbai
Mumbai07.2010
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Quote
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Timeline
Senior Associate - Program Manager RPA
TIAA
10.2022 - Current
Program Manager - RPA
Willis Towers Watson
04.2020 - 05.2022
Lead Engineer
ADROSONIC IT Consultancy Services
03.2016 - 04.2020
Automation Test Lead
Collabera Technologies
03.2015 - 03.2016
Sr. Automation Engineer
Sterling Information Resources
07.2014 - 03.2015
Sr. Automation Engineer
JP Morgan Chase Bank
07.2013 - 07.2014
Automation Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2010 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Mumbai
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