Accelerate delivery, reduce risk & maximise efficiency
Make every Workday change move your business forward
Workday is built for change, but as you configure and extend, hidden impacts can slip into production where the real cost isn’t fixing these issues, it’s the disruption, rework, and loss of confidence that follows.
Smart Test is built specifically for Workday. It uses AI to understand how your organisation actually uses Workday and automatically proposes the right test coverage. So your teams can deliver change faster, with confidence, and without surprises.
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Why smart Workday teams choose Smart Test
AI‑driven testing that learns your Workday
Smart Test brings clarity and control to every Workday change:
- Automatically learns and adapts to your configuration, processes, controls, and security model.
- Provides intelligent, self‑maintaining regression coverage across end‑to‑end processes.
- Delivers confidence in every change, without the manual effort of traditional testing.
- Purpose‑built for Workday accuracy that generic tools cannot match.
Always‑on stability, security, and compliance
Smart Test doesn’t just find issues, it helps prevent them.
- Reduces production issues by up to 80% through continuous validation.
- Identifies and flags impacts before your users experience them.
- Strengthens audit readiness with built‑in controls, traceability, and evidence.
- Continuously protects sensitive Workday data and security configurations.
Move faster and get more from Workday
Smart Test removes the friction from testing so you can deliver change faster and take advantage of every Workday update.
- Deploy changes faster with continuous, test-as-you-go validation.
- Eliminate repetitive testing and reduce costly rework.
- Scale assurance without increasing headcount or relying on external testers.
- Unlock up to 30% additional team capacity by removing administrative overhead.
- Adopt new Workday features confidently and turn releases into opportunities for improvement.
Why Smart Test is different
"We can adopt new features faster. We can focus on benefiting our workmates, and, ultimately, we can continue to make Workday the best HR and financial platform around."
“Around 25% of our changes were defects and would take three to four days to fix depending on the level of severity. With Smart Test we seldom see defects - I'd say less than 5% of our changes are defects.”
“The impact was immediate. During our first major update, Smart Test trimmed testing time by three weeks, increased depth and breadth of test coverage x29 and reduced the number of hands-on testers by 80%.”
“We have around 600 custom integrations requiring 10 to 15 testers per big project to perform test cases, record and report on results. Now Smart Test automates those labour-intensive tasks we only need a testing team of four to five people.”
Features that empower your teams and business to keep moving forward
| Feature | What it means for you and your teams |
|---|---|
 AI-powered test creation |
Smart Test uses AI to analyse real transaction patterns and recommend relevant test scenarios, ensuring coverage is focused on what matters most while eliminating the need for manual scoping and reducing test creation from weeks to minutes. |
| AI-powered test outcome summaries |
Using generative AI, Smart Test categorises failures, highlights root causes, and delivers clear, human‑readable summaries that enable faster triage and support far more frequent testing cycles. |
| Continuous validation |
Runs tests as changes occur so issues are identified before they reach production. |
| Impact analysis |
Shows which processes, integrations, or security configurations are affected by a change. |
| Self-maintaining tests |
Updates test coverage automatically as your Workday environment evolves, reducing manual maintenance. |
| End-to-end process coverage |
Validates critical business processes such as hire-to-retire, payroll, and finance workflows. |
| Audit-ready evidence |
Provides traceability and documentation to support compliance and internal audit requirements. |
Smart Test: Frequently asked questions
Smart Test uses AI to analyse your Workday configuration, business processes, integrations, and security model. It automatically generates and maintains regression tests that reflect how your organisation actually uses Workday. As configuration changes are made, tests run continuously to validate behaviour and identify potential issues before they reach production.
Workday environments change frequently through configuration updates, integrations, security changes, and biannual Workday releases. Effective Workday testing validates end‑to‑end business processes, payroll and finance workflows, integrations, and user access controls to ensure changes do not introduce risk or disruption.
AI-driven Workday testing reduces the manual effort required to build and maintain test scripts. Smart Test learns how your environment behaves, automatically updates regression coverage as Workday evolves, and highlights the business impact of changes. This enables teams to test more frequently while reducing testing overhead.
Workday operates in a continuous configuration model where changes happen frequently. Continuous Workday testing ensures updates, integrations, and new features are validated as they are introduced, reducing the risk of production issues and improving release confidence.
Automated Workday testing validates critical processes before changes go live, helping teams detect issues early and maintain compliance. By running tests continuously and providing traceable evidence of validation, organisations can reduce operational risk, support audit readiness, and deliver safer Workday releases.
Customer data is not used to train AI models, personal data is protected, and all AI runs securely in Kainos‑controlled infrastructure approved by Workday.
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