Wadhwani Foundation

About Wadhwani Foundation ( :

Mission : Accelerating economic development in emerging economies through high-value job creation Objectives : Enabling the creation of 10M jobs and placement of 25M by 2030 across 20-25 emerging economies

Wadhwani Foundation is a not-for-profit with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging economies by driving large-scale job creation through entrepreneurship, innovation and skills development. Founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, today the Foundation is scaling impact in 25 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America through various Initiatives. More details on the various programs at the end of the document.

Job Description :

Role and responsibilities :

- Create and contribute to the creation of test plans, test scenarios and automation framework and performance tests for use during the testing phases of the software development lifecycle, for new and existing software systems/products

- Conduct and participate in test case reviews, requirement reviews, design reviews, and change control activities

- Conduct test and demos and inspect to certify product readiness for quality gates.

- Track customer facing issues in customer support tracking tool.

- Offer continuous improvement by assessing customer issues for root cause and future prevention

- Investigate and explore upcoming new technologies and suggest for enhancements.

- Handle vendor relationships to deliver services.

- Develop and maintain a working knowledge of business processes supported by software systems/products

- Ensures that test plans and scenarios fully exercise every aspect of the product

- Enhance QA methodology for test and defect management and tools supporting processes.

- Mentor, guide and grow a team of passionate QA professionals

- Help in resource allocation and estimation efforts and delegate duties for routine activities.

Qualification, Skills & Experience :

- B.Tech or related fields, say BCA/MCA.

- Total of 7-10 years of experience in the software testing field, with at least 4-5 years of hands-on experience with manual/automation testing of web and Mobile based applications (Automated testing experience is a good bonus). Plus another 2-3 years leading and managing a team of QA engineers

- Good knowledge of web/mobile technologies, testing frameworks, project management tools like jira

- Experience working with agile methodology

- Analytical mind-set to solve issues with focus on client/customer requirement with an ability to take independent decisions

- Strong work ethic and attention to detail

- Proactive, self-motivated and should be a team player

- Good Communication & Inter personal skills

KPIs :

1. Execution efficiency

- Quality of releases, pre- and post- release P0 bug counts

- Testing (Automation)

- On time release delivery

- Resource planning

Process Innovation

- New ideas around improving quality and speed

- Adoption of new tech/tools etc.

Leadership :

- Mentoring/Coaching team members

- Upskilling

- Working in an ambiguous set up

- Collaboration on feedback and inputs from users/deployment team

Various Programs at Wadhwani Foundation :

1. Wadhwani Advantage : Accelerating the growth of tens of thousands of SMEs by providing personalized, on-demand knowledge and consulting resources through an AI-enabled mobile platform to create millions of new jobs.

2. Wadhwani Entrepreneur : Inspiring, educating, and enabling Startup entrepreneurs

- Wadhwani Venture Fastrack : Maximizes success rates of early-stage startups with enhanced business traction and funding opportunities

- Wadhwani NEN : Empowers students with knowledge and skills through Courses and Startup Labs to create high-potential startups

- Wadhwani Inspire : Establishes a nationwide culture of entrepreneurship

3. Wadhwani Opportunity : Empowering millions of students with 21st century employability skills that drive family supporting wages.

4. Wadhwani AI (a partner program) : A first-of-its-kind AI research institute in the world - a non-profit dedicated exclusively to applying AI for social good.

5. Wadhwani Catalyst : Invest in high quality entrepreneurs with scalable business models across emerging markets, with a focus in India. The fund will catalyse businesses across sectors, with the overall objective of accelerating economic development by creating livelihoods/ jobs.

6. Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP) : Support government and civil society at large with the dual mission of - (1) Providing information, insights, and recommendations for the application of technology for policy making, policy implementation, and policy outcomes measurement. (2) Creating a Technology-focused Training Academy for upskilling policy makers, bureaucrats and technocrats with relevant technologies and the application of the same to their respective ministries and missions.

Wadhwani Corporate Profile :

Our Culture :

WF is a global not-for-profit, and works like a start-up, in a fast-moving, dynamic pace where change is the only constant and flexibility is the key to success.

Three mantras that we practice across job roles, levels, functions, programs and initiatives, are Quality, Speed, Scale, in that order.

We are an ambitious and inclusive organization, where everyone is encouraged to contribute and ideate. We are intensely and insanely focused on driving excellence in everything we do.

We want individuals with the drive for excellence, and passion to do whatever it takes to deliver world class outcomes to our beneficiaries. We set our own standards often more rigorous than what our beneficiaries demand, and we want individuals who love it this way.

We have a creative and highly energetic environment - one in which we look to each other to innovate new solutions not only for our beneficiaries but for ourselves too. Open to collaborate with a borderless mentality, often going beyond the hierarchy and siloed definitions of functional KRAs, are the individuals who will thrive in our environment.

This is a workplace where expertise is shared with colleagues around the globe. Individuals uncomfortable with change, constant innovation, and short learning cycles and those looking for stability and orderly working days may not find WF to be the right place for them.

Finally, we want individuals who want to do greater good for the society leveraging their area of expertise, skills and experience.

The foundation is an equal opportunity firm with no bias towards gender, race, colour, ethnicity, country, language, age and any other dimension that comes in the way of progress.

Join us and be a part of us