UiPath Delegate targets the busywork that surrounds software testing

The work around the work

In a blog post, Dany Benavides, Product Marketing Manager for Test Cloud at UiPath, describes a familiar routine after a regression run finishes. Testers check whether the build completed, confirm the deployment, open the run, verify the context and save the IDs and links others will request. They then go through failed tests, logs, screenshots, previous runs, environment notes and Jira tickets. Some failures are real defects, while others are noise or environment issues, and each still needs attention.

After triage come documenting, updating tickets, capturing evidence, escalating blockers and summarizing delivery risk. UiPath argues that very little of this is the craft of testing itself. The company also says the drag is compounding, because AI-powered development is producing more code and more change, and testing teams are expected to keep pace. In its view, quality cannot scale by piling more operational work onto the people responsible for it.

What UiPath Delegate does

UiPath describes Delegate as "the productivity agent built for the enterprise". It acts on the user's behalf and completes administrative and role-specific tasks, including the operational work around software testing. According to UiPath, it works across tools testing teams already use: test management systems, Jira, CI/CD pipelines, desktop apps, APIs, collaboration tools and enterprise environments.

The company stresses the difference between help and handoff. Help points a user in the right direction, while handoff takes a repeatable workflow off their plate. UiPath says Delegate is built for handoff and executes tasks end to end, including moving data across systems, following established routines and reporting back when the work is done.

• It can learn from tester actions and recorded sessions.
• It can turn successful workflows into reusable routines.
• Routines can run on demand, on a schedule, or based on defined triggers.
• It can check in when an action is sensitive and run in the background when the task is routine.

UiPath ties this to its broader view of agentic AI working alongside testers across the lifecycle. It says UiPath Test Cloud is built around that vision, with agentic capabilities spanning web, mobile, desktop, API and enterprise applications.

A morning regression run, as UiPath describes it

The post walks through a typical morning. Rather than collecting context manually, a tester could use Delegate to check build notifications, confirm deployment status, open the run and organize the links and IDs needed. Instead of combing through every failure individually, Delegate can help compare logs against previous runs, flag repeated failures, surface new ones and prepare a triage summary for review.

For defects, UiPath says Delegate can help check whether a Jira issue exists, update or create the right ticket, attach evidence and link the result. At the end of the run, it can prepare the execution summary covering what failed, what was rerun, what the delivery risk looks like and what needs follow-up. UiPath's framing is that the tester still decides what matters, and Delegate handles more of the motion.

What it means for testing teams

UiPath defines agentic testing as AI that helps design, execute, adapt and refine tests across complex environments. Its argument is that this future cannot only be about running tests faster. If testers still spend hours after every run collecting evidence, updating tickets and writing summaries, the company says, the bottleneck "has just moved" rather than been solved.

Delegate is presented as a direct answer to that problem: a way for testing teams to hand off repetitive work across tools, keep humans in control of key decisions and reclaim time for work that improves quality. These are the company's own claims, and the post does not provide performance figures or pricing.

UiPath and TestingXperts are hosting a webinar on October 6, 2026, offering a first look at Delegate for agentic testing. According to the announcement, it will cover how Delegate helps teams move from AI-generated advice to delegated execution while testers remain in control of review, judgment and quality decisions.