Internal learning portal · Intact Green Services (India) Private Limited
IGS Takshashila
योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्
Excellence in action is the true discipline — Gita 2.50
One place for the things that make learning at IGS work: the Role-Based Curriculum for every designation, the Employee Enrichment Program for people between projects, the Course Library, and the processes that govern them.
This portal exists so that learning at IGS is planned, budgeted and evidenced — never ad hoc. It runs on three working principles.
Conviction one
Assessment before instruction
No scholar is taught generically. The Release Ceremony feedback and the Growth Office intake examine the person first — what they can do, what delivery observed, and where the pipeline needs them — and only then is the syllabus composed, person by person.
Conviction two
Residency, not browsing
Learning that changes capability is immersive. Every residency day is a planned 8 hours — courseware, supervised labs, assessment, stand-up — under TestOps as the resident guru and the Growth Office as the chancellor who sets each scholar's purpose.
Conviction three
Examination before release
Nothing counts until it is assessed. The Exit Gate combines weekly gates, a capstone practical, a communication demonstration and a discipline record into one score that declares Deploy-Ready, Extend, or Escalate — the same way for everyone.
Mission · Vision · Objectives
What the Academy exists to achieve
Mission
Every hour of availability at Intact Green Services (India) Private Limited is planned learning with an examination at the end — so time between projects builds capability instead of eroding it.
Vision
Deployability protected and careers progressed on evidence: current role curriculum complete, next role curriculum complete, examinations passed — the same standard for everyone, tied to the Project Centum plan.
🎯 The six objectives of the Academy
Objective 1
Productive availability
Every person in the pool is on an active, governed capsule within 2 working days of release. Zero idle days, by design and by measurement.
Objective 2
Targeted deployability
Capsules train towards the pipeline — the tool, domain and AI use case of the next real opportunity — so redeployment velocity averages 30 days or better.
Objective 3
A rising skill floor
Every level in every family anchored to the world canon — ISTQB v4.0, TMMi, ISO 25010, OWASP, SAFe — with at least one certification pursued in every 6-week residency.
Objective 4
Cultural transformation
Communication, client conversations, difficult conversations, teamwork and leadership trained and assessed with the same rigour as any tool — because craft without character does not serve clients.
Objective 5
Measured, honest outcomes
≥85% of residencies end Deploy-Ready at the Exit Gate; every escalation reaches HR and Leadership with a complete evidence file under the North-Star Performance Framework.
Objective 6
An academy that measures itself
Five program metrics reported monthly to Leadership — time to start, Deploy-Ready rate, redeployment velocity, feedback-to-fix closure, and capsule economics. If the numbers stall, the Academy reforms itself, not the scholars.
The Four Halls of Learning
Every curriculum draws from four halls
The old universities were organised into shalas — halls, each keeping one branch of knowledge. IGS Takshashila keeps four. No curriculum ever draws from just one, because IGS engineers are hired for judgement, not tools alone.
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यन्त्रशाला · Yantra-shala
The Hall of Instruments
Tools and technology. Open-source first — Playwright, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Cypress, Appium, REST Assured, k6, JMeter, OWASP tooling, Jenkins, Docker, Git — and the licensed platforms clients demand, alongside IGS's own UTAF Gen 2.0 and QualiZen AI.
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अर्थशाला · Artha-shala
The Hall of Domains
Business and domain fluency in every IGS specialisation — Banking & Payments, Insurance, Healthcare, Remote Patient Monitoring, Clinical Trials, OTT & Streaming, Telco, Retail, Manufacturing — so a scholar lands speaking the client's language.
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वाक्शाला · Vak-shala
The Hall of Speech
Written and spoken communication, client negotiation, difficult conversations, cross-cultural fluency, presentation and leadership behaviours — assessed by recorded demonstration and mock-client panels, never by attendance.
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नीतिशाला · Niti-shala
The Hall of Method
Process and standards — Agile and Scrum practice, SAFe, ITIL, PRINCE2, and the quality-engineering canon: ISTQB CTFL v4.0 and Advanced streams, TMMi maturity, ISO 25010, risk-based testing.
The Code of the Academy
Seven rules that never bend
⚖️ Read the seven rules
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Six weeks is the ceiling.No residency exceeds six weeks. What follows week six is defined precisely — deployment, productive holding, one one-week extension, or escalation. Availability is always structured, never open-ended.
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Eight hours, every day.Each residency day plans a full 8 productive hours — theory, labs, assessment, stand-up. The calendar proves it block by block.
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Feedback is pointed, or it is useless.The Release Ceremony demands specific, honest ratings with the scholar present. A polite 3 that should be a 2 steals a booster the person needed.
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Only the chancellor sets the destination.The Growth Office alone decides what a scholar trains towards, because only it sees the opportunity pipeline. Feedback says what to fix; the pipeline says where to go.
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Evidence over claims.Nothing counts until it is assessed — daily checks, weekly gates, a capstone, a communication demo. Lab repos, reports and datasets are the scholar's proof and their interview material.
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Presence is a discipline.Attendance below 85% invalidates a residency. The Academy protects the scholar's hours from ad-hoc pulls; the scholar honours them in return.
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Deployment always wins.The Academy exists to return people to billable craft. A residency pauses the day an opportunity lands — and the Closure Ceremony still happens, so learning is recorded.
Governance in one line: the Growth Office is the Chancellor (governs, sets targets, chairs ceremonies), TestOps is the resident Guru (teaches, supervises, examines), and the full Council — People Leaders, PM/TM, RM, HR, Leadership — holds the precise duties written into the Enrichment Program.
The Flagship Residency · Employee Enrichment Program
A simple promise, kept with discipline
The Enrichment Program is the official IGS framework for the time between projects — the Availability Pool for available team members and the transition window for people moving between projects. No one sits idle, and no one is trained on random content. Every person is on a personal capsule of 1 to 6 weeks, built from two inputs and governed end to end.
Input 1 · Release Feedback
The honest mirror
At the Release Ceremony, the recent People Leader and the releasing PM or TM rate the person on core skill, technical depth, communication, teamwork and leadership using a tick-and-rate checklist, and give one pointed “fix this first” comment. Any rating of 1 or 2 automatically injects a booster into the capsule.
Input 2 · Growth Office Intake
The chancellor sets the destination
Within 2 working days, the Growth Office — which owns the roadmap and pipeline of opportunities — reviews the person's current skills against upcoming demand and sets the target: which job family, which domain, which tools, which certification, and how many weeks are available before likely deployment.
Output · A Personal Capsule
One to six weeks, day by day
The generator combines both inputs into a week-by-week, day-by-day calendar drawn from the learner's real role curriculum. Each day plans 8 hours of courseware, lab work and assessment. TestOps runs the training; the Growth Office governs it.
Design principle — speed to productivity. These are not leisurely learning paths. Every course is chosen because it gives working practicality fast — enough Playwright to automate on day one, enough domain context to speak the client's language in the first meeting. Depth comes later, on the project; the capsule buys velocity.
What the capsule trains
Four dimensions, one engineer
Every capsule draws from four training dimensions. The mix changes with the person's job family, level, feedback and target — but no capsule covers only one, because IGS engineers are hired for judgement, not tools alone.
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Tools & Technology
Open-source first — Playwright, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Cypress, Appium, REST Assured, k6, JMeter, OWASP tooling, Jenkins, Docker, Git — and the licensed platforms clients demand, alongside IGS's own UTAF Gen 2.0 and QualiZen AI.
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Domain & Business
Quick-boost primers in every domain IGS serves — Banking & Payments, Insurance, Healthcare, Remote Patient Monitoring, Clinical Trials, OTT & Streaming, Telco, Retail, Manufacturing, and B2C & quick-commerce — so an engineer lands speaking the client's language.
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Communication & Soft Skills
Written status reporting, spoken clarity, client negotiations, difficult conversations, cross-cultural awareness for global clients, presentation skills, and leadership behaviours for senior levels — trained with the same seriousness as any tool.
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Process & Standards
Agile and Scrum practice, SAFe for scaled programmes, ITIL, PRINCE2 fundamentals, and the quality-engineering canon — ISTQB CTFL v4.0 and advanced streams, TMMi, ISO 25010, risk-based testing.
Who this covers
8 job families, 5 levels each
The programme covers the complete IGS service portfolio. Every family has its own core track per level, its own release-feedback checklist, and its own assessment set. Levels follow the IGS ladder: L1, L2, L3, L4, L5.
Functional Quality Engineering
Manual, exploratory and functional test design, execution and defect intelligence.
Test Automation Engineering
UI, API and mobile automation with open-source and licensed frameworks, wired into CI/CD.
Performance Engineering
Load, stress, spike and soak testing, bottleneck analysis and performance dashboards.
Application Security Engineering
Application security testing, OWASP-aligned assessment, and secure-SDLC practices.
DevOps & TestOps
CI/CD pipelines, test environments, containerisation, observability and TestOps platforms.
Test Data Management
Synthetic data design, data subsetting, masking and provisioning.
AI Evaluation & AI Testing
LLM and agent evaluation, prompt engineering, AI quality metrics, and AI-augmented QE.
QE Management (TM / PM / Leads)
Test management, project management, estimation, governance, client and team leadership.
One rule that never bends: a capsule runs for a maximum of 6 weeks. What happens at the end of week 6 is defined precisely — deployment, productive holding, one one-week extension, or a Steering Committee review. Availability at IGS is always structured, never open-ended.
Learn essential career and life skills
The Academy connects every module to a real project output — not a generic skills list. From foundational testing practice through to AI-enabled quality engineering, each designation's curriculum is built backwards from what that role actually has to deliver, so the hours you put in map directly to the capability, certification and progression you're working toward next.
Trending courses
A sample from the full course library, mapped across all five learning pillars.
Illustrative feedback in the voice of the Academy's designations.
“The role-based curriculum meant I wasn't just taking random courses — every module mapped straight to what my next designation actually required.”
Ananya R.Quality Engineer
“I went from executing assigned tests to designing my own test strategy in under six months, and the evidence-based progression made the jump feel earned, not arbitrary.”
Rohan K.Senior Quality Engineer
“Having AI Enablement built into the core curriculum — not bolted on — helped me use tools like Copilot responsibly instead of guessing.”
Priya M.Test Automation Engineer
“The certification directions gave me a clear target instead of a vague checklist. I knew exactly what to study and why.”
