This document is a resume for Abhishek Banerjee summarizing his career experience as a Quality Assurance professional. He has over 60 months of experience in functional software testing for annuities and life insurance domains. Some of his roles and responsibilities included requirement analysis, test planning, test case design, defect management, and acting as a test lead guiding other team members. He has extensive experience testing the Vantage-One policy administration system for a large North American insurance provider.

1. ABHISHEK BANERJEE
Email: abhi.mail89@gmail.com
Contact No.: (+91) 9432821126
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Utilizing 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.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
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.

2. • Active member of the product learning & development team.
VISA DETAILS
• Holding valid H1B visa (stamped on Dec 30, 2016 – valid till June 15, 2019).
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
Title of the Degree with Branch Board Year Of
Passing
Percen
tage
B. TECH (Computer Science & Engineering ) WBUT 2011 74.3
XII ISC 2007 68.14
X ICSE 2005 74.1
EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE IN TESTING PRACTICES:
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.
SKILLSETS:
• 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.
CERTIFICATIONS: Technical
Foundation level certification in ISTQB from Indian Testing Board (ITB).
CERTIFICATIONS : Domain
• External Certification in LOMA 280
• External Certification in AAPA 273.
• External Certification in LOMA 290.
ACHIEVEMENTS:

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

4. 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
PROJECT OBJECTIVE :
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.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION :
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.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:

5. • 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

6.  Team Size: 3
PROJECT OBJECTIVE :
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.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION :
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
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:
• 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.

7. • 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
PROJECT OBJECTIVE :
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.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION :
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.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:
• 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.

8. 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
PROJECT OBJECTIVE :
A migration project where the Life Insurance policies were migrated from LifeAsia 5.0 to LifeAsia
7.6.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION :
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.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT:
• 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.
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Name: Abhishek Banerjee
Address: 24(44) Shibtala Road, P.O-Nona Chandanpukur, Barrackpore, Kolkata-700122.
DOB: 26-04-1989
Marital Status: Married
Gender: Male
Contact No: +91 9432821126
Passport No: J1859453
I hereby declare that all the details mentioned above by me, is true to the best of my
knowledge.