A system and method for the automated creation and validation of physical ability tests for employment assessment is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: enabling, by use of a computing device, a user to edit and configure a plurality of physical ability test (PAT) event parameters including: environment parameters, restrictions, requirements, and risk parameters; enabling, by use of the computing device, the user to identify and describe essential physical tasks of a job description being tested; automatically creating a proposed PAT event based on the PAT event parameters and the essential physical tasks; automatically generating a validation survey corresponding to the proposed PAT event; sending the validation survey with an invitation to a set of job experts for feedback in a data network communication; and creating a test parameter report and a validation report based on the PAT event parameters, the essential physical tasks, and the feedback from the set of job experts.