Streamline your Workday testing using automation

Finding the right testing tool

Alight has supported our clients with our Workday Automated Testing solution for 100+ clients across North America and Europe. While our developed tool meets the needs of our customers who look to outsource release testing, clients who were looking to more highly leverage their own testers needed a more commercial product that included various features and capabilities, including:

“Plug-and-play” capabilities for business process testing
Having access to thousands of pre-populated test scenarios across both HCM and FINs gives the ability to quickly implement new scripts, SKUs and features without the need to code.

Support for true integration testing
Our customers needed the ability to launch integrations as well as validate, fit, form and execute scenario-based testing.

The ability to execute end-to-end testing
Individual business process tests and integrations can be combined to create test packages, providing full coverage of the end to end lifecycle testing.

Leveraging process automation
Automation features to schedule and execute repetitive tasks in Workday and can be used to handle routine data entry.

Contains built in comparison capabilities
Regression testing is not just about executing a business process or launching an integration. In many cases, it’s about comparing data or results between tenants (Sandbox versus Sandbox Preview) to ensure that the integrity of a file or report is not compromised. Report and integration comparisons in your lower environments make it easier to stay abreast of periodic Workday updates.

Benefits of automating testing

Customers who leverage automation during the deployment can look forward to three key benefits:

Reduced testing fatigue
Few customers deploying Workday will have fully dedicated resources to only focus on testing. Customer resources generally have a day job where supporting production is the priority. By leveraging automation, customers can expect to reduce the amount of transactional data entry needed for testing by quickly automating those high-volume business processes. These business processes can be scheduled to run so there is always test data ready to validate at the start of each testing day.

Increased test coverage to reduce risk
High-volume testing results in higher confidence of the overall solution and reduces overall risk. Clients who leverage automation can test for the various permutations and worker combinations without creating the strain on manual testing. Additional tests like negative and exploratory testing are easily executed and can not only be repeated but scheduled.

Successful outcomes for your company
Most clients will experience their first Workday release within a few short months of stabilization. A natural progression of creating test coverage is to identify what can become a comprehensive regression test suite and eliminates the need to build a separate regression test plan each release.