Overview
TCS’s Strategic Leadership Program (SLP) is its flagship track for developing future leaders. It gives high-potential talent early exposure to real client challenges across strategy, operations, technology, and customer experience.
Case Quest 2026 is the SLP’s invitation-only campus case competition. It was open to first- and second-year MBA students at three of India’s top-ranked business schools: IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, and IIM Calcutta. Winners earned a direct path to internships, pre-placement interviews, and the SLP track. Entry ran through a remote, unsupervised multiple-choice qualifier. TCS ran the qualifier and every stage after it on Talview.
Challenge
- An unsupervised exam with real consequences. Candidates took the qualifier from home with no invigilator present. The result decided who advanced in TCS’s leadership program.
- Every candidate, one window. Candidates across three campuses took one identical MCQ assessment inside a single 40-minute slot.
- No second attempt. With one non-negotiable slot, any unresolved issue could cost a candidate their place in the program.
- Four stages, one candidate journey. The qualifier, team registration, case challenge, and finals each had their own format, but the program had to feel like one journey.
The shortlist had to hold up to scrutiny from candidates at India’s most selective business schools and from TCS’s own senior leadership.
Solution
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Talview Secure Browser controlled the exam environment. Every candidate sat the qualifier in the same locked-down environment, wherever they were. It removed the open desktop as a variable in an unsupervised exam.
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Identity checks confirmed the right candidate. If candidate ID verification ran before the qualifier, keep this line: "Identity checks confirmed that each registered candidate was the person sitting the exam." If it did not run, delete it.
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Recorded proctoring left a record of every session. Talview captured each qualifier session for review, so the integrity of the round rested on a record rather than an assumption. It ran in the background and added no steps to the candidate's 40 minutes.
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The decision stayed with TCS. Talview built the record. TCS's own team used it to stand behind the shortlist it took into the case challenge.
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One platform for every stage. Registration, the proctored qualifier, case submissions, and reporting all ran on Talview, with no hand-off to a second assessment tool.
How the Talview team ran it
Behind the platform, a Talview team configured and supported each stage alongside TCS.
- Branded program microsite. Built a custom Case Quest microsite as the single home for candidates.
- Registration across three campuses. Set up two registration forms to capture Section 1 and Section 2 details from all three schools.
- Case submission workflow. Configured the submission round and adapted it when program requirements changed mid-way, without disrupting candidates.
- Candidate readiness. Sent clear invites and ran a practice session before the live qualifier.
- Live support during the window. Kept a live Teams bridge open for the full 40 minutes, with real-time escalation for candidate issues.
- Consolidated reporting. Compiled every case submission into one report for the TCS SLP leadership team to review and decide results.
Results
These are TCS's results for Case Quest 2026, their program and their engagement.
- 85% of registered candidates completed the qualifier on Secure Browser, inside a single 40-minute window with no extension.
- Every completed qualifier session was proctored and recorded, so each exam carries a session record.
- TCS drew its case-challenge shortlist from proctored sessions only.
- One platform across four stages and three campuses: registration, the proctored qualifier, case submissions, and consolidated reporting.
- About four weeks from registration to results.
- TCS selected 8 winners, each offered a pre-placement interview.
What the customer said
"Running the qualifier remotely, with no invigilators, could easily have been the weakest point of the program. Every session was recorded, so we could stand behind the shortlist we took into the case challenge."
— Parveen Ahmed, India Campus Head - IT
Conclusion
With Talview as the security partner for its assessments, TCS ran Case Quest 2026 from registration through to final results on one platform. Secure Browser gave every candidate the same controlled environment, and Record and Review proctoring left a record of each session, so the shortlist decision stayed with TCS and rested on evidence. Organizations running a remote, single-window qualifier for a graduate, leadership, or scholarship program can book a demo to see how Talview fits their process.
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