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About this programme
The Business Automation Specialist Program is a 6-month live online course from ALA Academy, followed by a 6-month remote internship with ALA Core on authorized real projects. You will learn to discover, design, build, test, secure, and monitor business automation solutions, from process analysis to AI-powered agentic workflows.
Course Structure
- Duration: 6 months / 24 weeks
- Sessions: 72 live online sessions (3 per week, 2 hours each)
- Total hours: 144 contact hours
- Months 1-5: 60 technical sessions
- Month 6: 12 career-readiness sessions (CV, LinkedIn, portfolio, interviews, graduation presentation)
- Internship: 26 weeks, fully remote, with ALA Core
What You Will Learn
- Process discovery and modeling with BPMN 2.0
- Requirements (PDD/SDD), candidate selection, and ROI business cases
- REST APIs, webhooks, JSON, SQL, authentication, and secrets handling
- Workflow automation with n8n, Make, and Zapier
- Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, and RPA with Power Automate Desktop
- Python and Selenium automation with Git version control
- Testing, logging, deployment, monitoring, and runbooks
- AI automation: structured prompting, tool calling, grounding, guardrails, and evaluation
- Constrained agentic workflows with human approval
- Automation analytics with Power BI
Projects & Assessment
- 4 technical projects: opportunity assessment, iPaaS integration, Microsoft automation solution, and coded automation
- An integrated capstone project (30% of the grade)
- Career package and graduation presentation before an ALA Academy and ALA Core panel
- The capstone pass mark is 70/100
Career Month
Build a one-page CV, a LinkedIn profile, and at least three sanitized portfolio case studies. Complete a technical mock interview and present your graduation project.
Real-World Internship
Work remotely with real ALA Core automation engineers, developers, and QA on authorized internal or client projects. You get supervised access only, with no independent production deployment.
Who Is This For?
Aspiring automation specialists, business analysts, developers, and operations professionals who want to build reliable, secure automation solutions.