Where implemented, Workday is foundational to the operations and productivity of enterprises, making rigorous testing crucial to ensure both compliance and a smooth user experience. The recent WD2025R1 update has introduced enhancements that necessitate a meticulous approach to maintaining system integrity.
The Importance of Testing Updates
Workday operates on a workflow-based framework, meaning changes in one area can impact functionality across your organisation. Effective testing ensures that your Workday system integrates flawlessly with other applications, safeguarding your investment and enhancing user satisfaction.
Navigating Biannual and Weekly Updates
The biannual updates introduce new features but can be a significant workload for testing teams and business users alike. Prolifics Testing can help during these critical periods, providing a flexible service via our Workday testing experts, to verify your unique configuration is functional, continues to exchange data correctly with your integrated applications and that there have been no regression problems inadvertently introduced.
Prolifics Testing: Your Strategic QA Partner
- Company Profile: As part of the Prolifics Group, we bring extensive expertise with over 1,800 employees globally, including a significant presence in the UK and a dedicated Offshore Testing Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad, India.
- Strategic Test Strategy and Planning: We help you craft a detailed, risk-based test strategy that prioritises high-impact areas. Utilising our flexible delivery model that combines on-site, off-site, and offshore resources, we ensure effective execution across all testing phases.
- Advanced Test Automation and Accelerators: Our suite of Test Accelerators integrates advanced technologies like Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics, enhancing efficiency in manual testing, automation, and performance testing. These tools are designed to help your business test smarter and faster, reducing costs without compromising quality.
- Enterprise Test Tools for Workday: With deep knowledge of both proprietary and open-source automation tools, and partnerships with leading vendors like OpenText and Tricentis, we ensure that your organisation maximises its investment in Workday quickly and effectively.
- Day One Automation: We spare your SMEs by deploying our QA engineers who are specialised in Workday. Utilising our ready-made automation framework with a re-usable library of Workday functions, we can start automating from 'day one' of our engagement, significantly speeding up the testing process.
- Proven Track Record: Our experience with leading companies such as Lloyds Banking Group, McKesson, VMware, and Clorox, where we've implemented Workday Test Automation and Performance Testing, demonstrates our capability. We have delivered over 30% savings with Selenium Automation, seamlessly integrated into CI/CD with Jenkins.
- Continuous Support and Innovation: Our approach involves continuous refresh and testing during update periods, utilising both sandbox and sandbox preview tenants for effective comparison and immediate adjustments.
- Documentation and Traceability: We provide advanced tools for tracking and documenting the testing process, enhancing transparency, and providing valuable insights for future updates.
Facing the complexities of Workday updates requires more than just technical skill—it demands a strategic partner who understands the nuances of enterprise software. Prolifics Testing offers the expertise, technology, and strategic insight to ensure that your Workday environment not only meets current demands but is also poised for future challenges. By choosing Prolifics Testing, you equip your IT and QA teams with the tools to ensure every Workday update is successful, enhancing business efficiency and employee satisfaction in the process.
