Siddhant Wadhwani is a versatile, self-directed leader with a decade of work experience in the IT industry. He works as an Engineering Manager – SDET at Newfold Digital managing approx. 35 SDETs cross-functionally across geographies, working on a portfolio of brands and mainly focusing on Test Execution & Automation Excellence.
From design discussions to architecture reviews, shift-left testing to in-sprint automation, adhering to code review guidelines, and focusing on non-functional testing areas, Siddhant has led the way to set the best quality standards! He has played a key role in forming the basis of test management and automation best practices within several projects and working closely with his team to extend those learnings across the organisation.
Siddhant has also been recognised as a BrowserStack Champion, taken up the mantle of being a Chapter Lead for the Mumbai Community, and is an active keynote speaker at various technology conferences & events, mostly in association with BrowserStack, The Test Tribe Community, Automation Advocates, WordPress, and many more. He has delivered 90+ talks nationally and internationally on various topics viz. Development, Testing, Automation, DevOps, and Generative AI.
Siddhant has established a strong social presence on LinkedIn with an active following of ~20K followers and has been recognised by LinkedIn with the Top Voice blue badge. Having attended several WordCamps, contributed to WordPress, featured in the WordPress 6.3 release notes, and delivered several in-person talks at WordCamp Kolkata 2022, Bengaluru 2024 and Nagpur 2024. Guess what! It’s been around 13 years that Siddhant has been officially associated with using WordPress.
Above all, he loves attending conferences and networking with like-minded individuals in his spare time. Siddhant also loves playing badminton and table tennis and travelling the globe.