ABHISHEK BANERJEE

Email: abhi.mail89@gmail.com Contact No.: (+91) 9432821126

CA REE R OB JEC TIV EUtilizing my technical, analytical skills and domain knowledge as an efficient Quality Assurance professional to explore newer roles which would in turn enrich the organization. I find myself confident to help the organization scale new heights with my ability to handle newer challenges and adding values.

E X P E R I E N C E S U M M A R Y

Employer Role Designation From Date To Date

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Functional Testing Lead

Product Specialist - Testing

27 Jan,2012 Till Date

Over 60 months experience of strong in-depth Functional Software Testing experience in Annuities and Life Insurance Domain.

48 months experience in CSC’s Vantage-One policy admin system in variable annuities and how the entire policy life cycle is administered through it.

Proficient in all the phases of STLC with focused exposure to Business Requirement Analysis, Test Strategizing, Test Design, Test Execution, Defect Management using Quality Center 10.0 ,ALM 12.53, Bugzilla and Test Closure Activities

Estimation of large and medium scale projects/BME tickets using TCP method. Excellent Communication and analytical skills, a quick learner of things and having the ability

to deliver projects in time. A strong team player with sound interaction abilities with all the teammates.

Experience as a Test Lead by guiding the offshore team with application and domain knowledge. Attending meetings and calls with clients and different stakeholders to ensure the requirement baseline is clear to the QA team.

Attending daily/weekly status calls and defect triage meetings with onsite counterparts and clients.

Deciding and providing the final sign QA sign off for different projects from offshore.

Experience in the creation of various reusable artifacts like Annuities Scenario Repository, Vantage Regression Suite, different business related documents like Tax Calculator system guide, Vantage Knowledge document, Business rules , Data Flow , Overview of critical modules, application level quiz etc.

Experience as an annuity SME in the preparation of the “US Tax Calculation Framework”. The objective behind this was to create a tool which would be able to calculate the state and Federal withholding for different US states based on different parameters like rules and regulations, product type, transaction type, resident state of the owner etc.

I have worked with clients belonging to different geographies as such US, APAC.

Creation of different decks and presentations related to case studies, showcasing the ROI using automation and optimizations.

Providing technical and domain related trainings to the entire new comers in the account.

As a value addition I have also worked in various in-house portal developments for the organization.

Active member of the product learning & development team.

V I SA DE TAI LS Holding valid H1B visa (stamped on Dec 30, 2016 – valid till June 15, 2019).

ED UCA TI ON AL QU ALI F I CAT IO N

Title of the Degree with Branch Board Year Of Passing Percentage

B. TECH (Computer Science & Engineering ) WBUT 2011 74.3

XII ISC 2007 68.14

X ICSE 2005 74.1

EXP ER IEN CE A ND EX PER TI SE IN T ESTI NG PRA CTI CE S:

Experience in various stages of STLC Expertise in

Test Lead

Requirement Analysis

Test Strategizing

Test Design

Test Execution

Risk Based Testing

Defect Tracking related activities

Regression & Defect Retesting

COTS Product Testing – Vantage-One.

SQL

Expertise in Variable and Fixed Annuity

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Annuity taxation logics.

Testing Metrics reporting. Test Estimation.

SK ILLS ETS : Tools: Quality Center 10.0, Bugzilla, CA Workload Testing: Manual Testing. Domain: Insurance and Annuities.

Database: SQL.

Software Languages: JAVA, Excel Macro (VBA).

Internet Technologies: HTML RDBMS: MS Sql Server, IBM DB2. Applications: Vantage One, Life Asia, Sales Force.

CE RTI F IC ATI O NS: TechnicalFoundation level certification in ISTQB from Indian Testing Board (ITB).

CE RTI F IC ATI O NS : Domain

External Certification in LOMA 280 External Certification in AAPA 273. External Certification in LOMA 290.

AC HI EVE ME NTS :

Received Delivery Excellence award 2014 working for a renowned US based Insurance provider.

PROJECT 1: Project Type: Vantage One Policy Admin QA Client : A leading Insurance provider in North America Duration: April 2014 - Till Date Location: Kolkata Role: Tester / Test Lead Team Size: 6

PR OJE CT OB JEC TIV E :

To validate the existing functionality enhancements, functionality changes in Vantage One or product migration from other legacy systems to Vantage one, assigned as a part of different releases spread across the year.

PR OJE CT DE SCR IP T IO N :

Cognizant has working as strategic vendor for this program where the entire variable annuities business is maintained through Vantage One policy admin system. Vantage is a policy admin system owned by Computer Sciences Corporation. It is a mainframe based application with IBM DB2 2008 in back end. The line of business is Variable Annuities. The different projects that come up are mainly functionality enhancements, Fund management, Fee correction, Rider changes and product migration based projects. Apart from the end to end testing of the policy admin, Cognizant is also involved in the testing of various downstream applications of Vantage One which constitutes of different report validations like statement and confirm, transaction print letters, electronic business application, new business applications etc.The types of testing which are mainly performed in Vantage testing are:- Functional Testing. Regression Testing.

RO LES A ND RE SPO NS IB IL IT I ES I N THE P RO JECT :

Understanding Requirements for Functional testing from the business requirement documents provided by business.

Attending the requirement walkthrough sessions with various stakeholders involved in the project.

Preparing the query log which is shared to business where the resolutions are provided to the queries raised by business.

Estimation to execute a particular project. Test Planning and preparation of effective test strategies which ensures the maximum

coverage from both functional and regression perspectives. Designing Test Scripts for Functional Testing/System testing and identifying the regression

test scripts. Identifying and Designing of Test Data. Executed both functional and regression test cases in the testing regions. Test management and Defect logging in Quality Center 10.0 and ALM. Attending all the project related calls with business/client and with the onsite counterparts. Attending the weekly status calls. Attending the defect triage meetings with business and onsite. Providing test summary report to business. Organizing and maintaining knowledge repository and business scenarios.

PROJECT 2: Project Type: BME Production Tickets Client : A leading Insurance provider in North America Duration: April 2013-Till Date Location: Kolkata Role: Tester/Team Lead Team Size: 3

PR OJE CT OB JEC TIV E :

Production BME tickets come up when some functional issue occurs in production region. Some functionalities might need some fix, some may need some enhancements and sometimes some features need to be modified which needs to be tested as a part of the tickets.

PR OJE CT DE SCR IP T IO N :

Production tickets are assigned as a part of different releases. These mainly come when some issues are identified in Production. Reasons for such issues might be due to data, environment, functionality enhancements etc. Objective for production ticket validation is to check whether the suggested changes have been implemented properly as a result of the production tickets and respective regression testing also needs to be conducted to ensure the related modules are not impacted. The different functional areas from where the production tickets are mainly assigned are as follows:- Systematic withdrawal Required minimum Distribution Loan Remittance and payouts Partial and Full Surrender Dollar Cost Averaging Policy restrictions Death Claim Issues on reports and letters Payments

RO LES A ND RE SPO NS IB IL IT I ES I N THE P RO JECT : Meeting with business analysts to understand the requirement Analyzing requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects Preparing effective test strategies with proper functional and regression coverage. Test Scripts design. Execution of test cases and defect management. Reporting to client with the current status, risk and mitigation plans Coordinating with onsite counterparts for resolving the clarifications on requirements Attending the defect triage and status meetings with different stakeholders. Test closure and test sign off from offshore.

PROJECT 3: Project Type: Informatica Upgrade from Windows to Unix Client : A leading Insurance provider in North America Duration: August 2015- November 2015 Location: Kolkata Role: Team Member Team Size: 3

PR OJE CT OB JEC TIV E :

This was a migration project where the database servers of different applications residing in the Windows server were migrated to updated Unix server to reduce the response time to load the data to different databases.

PR OJE CT DE SCR IP T IO N : All the ESP jobs for the impacted applications were modified, the database pointers, server pointers and location of all the input and the output files were changed. As a part of QA , all the modified jobs needed to be executed and checked whether the application jobs were running correctly. Post completion of the jobs whether the migrated databases were getting filled with proper data or not from the target database or the input files. A comparison testing was also done between the data in Windows server and the UNIX server. Firstly the same job was run with the same set of input files in Windows server and the output files and the updated database dump was taken as a backup. After that, the same job was run in UNIX server with the same set of input files. The output files and the destination database dump were compared with the ones that were taken from the windows server. The match of the data between the two dumps ensured that the data were loaded correctly to the database UNIX jobs.

RO LES A ND RE SPO NS IB IL IT I ES I N THE P RO JECT : Understanding Requirements for Functional testing. Attending the requirement walkthrough with various stakeholders. Test Planning and preparation of effective test strategies. Designing Test Scripts as the Test Designer for Functional Testing. Running different Informatica jobs mapped to update several applications in CA workload tool. Monitoring the jobs and Informatica logs to completion. Comparison testing between the output files from Windows and UNIX environment. Attending the defect triage meetings. Communication with client and onsite counterparts regarding the test status.

PROJECT 4: Project Type: Migration Testing on LifeAsia 7.6. Client : A leading Insurance provider in APAC region Duration:: June 2012- January 2013 Location: Kolkata Role: Team Member Team Size: 10

PR OJE CT OB JEC TIV E :

A migration project where the Life Insurance policies were migrated from LifeAsia 5.0 to LifeAsia 7.6.

PR OJE CT DE SCR IP T IO N :

This was a project where the testing was done on the LifeAsia 7.6 application developed by Computer Sciences Corporation. The geography was APAC region. It was mainly a migration project where one of the most renowned Insurance Company planned to migrate the existing policies from LifeAsia 5.0 to LifeAsia 7.6. QA had to ensure that when these policies were migrated to the new version of LifeAsia 7.6, the policies continued with their life cycle and also it needed to ensure that both the new products implemented in LifeAsia 7.6 were also working according to the product specifications. The total project was divided into 3 cycles where the first two cycles mainly dealt with functional testing and cycle 3 mainly dealt with regression testing. The testing solution included:-

Functional Testing. Regression Testing.

RO LES A ND RE SPO NS IB IL IT I ES I N THE P RO JECT : Understanding requirements for Functional testing Designing test scripts for Functional Testing. Identifying and Designing of test data. Executed the Test Cases manually as the part of Functional Testing. Tracking and Logging Defect in Bugzilla. Designed User Manual documents for different modules on LifeAsia 7.6. Performed Smoke Testing, Functional testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance

testing. Application knowledge sharing among the team members and also to resources who would

be working in future LifeAsia assignments.

PER SO NA L D ETA ILS :Name: Abhishek Banerjee Address: 24(44) Shibtala Road, P.O-Nona Chandanpukur, Barrackpore, Kolkata-700122.DOB: 26-04-1989Marital Status: MarriedGender: MaleContact No: +91 9432821126Passport No: J1859453

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