Selected Leadership Experience
Canadian Tire
Workday Test Automation Strategy
Developing an automation strategy around high-risk Workday business processes in an enterprise environment supporting more than 60,000 employees.
2022
Retail / Enterprise Technology
- Workday HCM
- Workday Finance
- Test automation framework
- Process Catalog
- Discovery Models
Selected Leadership Experience
Canadian Tire
2022
Context
The situation
The engagement focused on Workday HCM and Finance test automation strategy in an enterprise environment supporting more than 60,000 employees.
Rather than automating everything, the work focused on identifying the processes where automation could create meaningful value.
The work
What the work involved
The role designed the Workday HCM and Finance test-automation framework strategy, starting from how the business processes actually operate.
- Process walkthroughs12 process walkthroughs facilitated with business capability leads.
- Opportunity identificationMore than 25 high-risk and regression-heavy automation opportunities identified.
- Discovery assetsA Process Catalog and Discovery Models developed.
- QualificationProcess identification, risk assessment and automation qualification applied to decide what should be automated.
Technology environment
Systems and practices in scope
Retail / Enterprise Technology
- Workday HCM
- Workday Finance
- Test automation framework
- Process Catalog
- Discovery Models
Outcomes
Verified proof points
40%
Reduction in manual testing effort across critical business processes
- $200K+Projected annual savings in the automation roadmap
- 25+Automation opportunities identified
- 85%Process-automation qualification rate
What this experience demonstrates
Where the experience applies
- Automation Strategy
- Process Discovery
- Workday
- Risk-Based Automation
- Enterprise Application Quality
From experience to practice
Where this experience connects to ZA today.
Connected capability
AI & Automation
Apply automation where it removes real operational friction.
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Relevant solution
AI & Workflow Automation
Identify where AI or conventional automation can remove operational friction across defined workflows, systems and information.
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Bring a complex technology challenge into focus.
Whether the challenge sits in transformation, integration, quality, automation or delivery, start with the environment and outcome that matter.