Watch: Kainos Smart Expedites Innovation at John Lewis Partnership

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Date posted
8 June 2021
Reading time
5 minutes

Key highlights include:  

  • Increasing test coverage | 138,000+ tests ran annually  
  • Supporting BAU changes | 500+ changes deployed  
  • Supporting Workday bi-annual updates | Improved Workday feature adoption
  • Enhanced Security | Detected changes in configuration

The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) is the UK’s largest employee owned business and parent company of two well respected retail brands - John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners, which are owned in Trust by over 78,000 Partners.

As a Partnership born out of experimentation, innovation continues to remain at the heart of their business today. With continuous improvement playing an integral part of their strategy, JLP replaced their legacy HR system, purchasing Workday HCM, Payroll, Compensations, Benefits, Security & Integrations followed in succession by Recruitment, Learning, Talent and Performance.

Manually testing their complex Workday configuration was costing the JLP team a lot of time, money and testing pain. In search of a solution to empower the team to comprehensively test across the full breadth of their Workday configuration, JLP found Kainos Smart, the only automated testing tool designed exclusively for use with Workday.

Here, Amy Moran, Senior HRIS Leader shares why JLP chose Kainos Smart to deliver a scalable Workday testing strategy and highlights the benefits it has brought to the business since its adoption.

"The fact that Workday use Kainos Smart to test their own instance of Workday means that we felt confident in Smart and the benefit that it was going to bring us."

Amy Moran
Senior HRIS Leader
John Lewis Partnership