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SAPTARSHI DEY

SAPTARSHI DEY

Senior Test Lead | Technology Consulting | EY-GDS
KOLKATA

Summary

CAREER OBJECTIVE :-

To obtain Test Manager position in Life and Annuities , P&C domain that challenges business related experience along with stakeholder management with more professional growth.

QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTING HIGHLIGHTS :-

  • 6.6 years of expertise in Software Quality Engineering and Assurance - Agile and Waterfall with good knowledge in SDLC and STLC.
  • Well experienced in BFSI , Insurance domain(both Life &Annuities product).
  • Working experience in various Annuities LOB such as Index-linked annuities, fixed and variable annuities, fixed indexed annuities, income annuities and fixed annuities.
  • Expertise in Functional testing with various tools both internal and external to clients including extensive knowledge in SAP , JIRA , DevOps and Prophet.
  • Highly Adaptable team leader with excellent background of quick and effective performance.
  • Experienced in IFRS17 regulatory changes.
  • Expertise working in DXC , VARI , Metlife policy admin system and end to end policy life cycle in all down stream .
  • Experience in leading a team of 12 for a Fortune 500 Insurance Client dealing in major online services with both internal & external users in Life & Annuities domain.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
11
11
Certificates
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior Test Lead

Ernst And Young GDS
KOLKATA
09.202 - Current

Project :- Fortune 500 Insurance Client - US

Roles and responsibilities:- (JIRA,Azure DevOps, SAP HANA,OLS,CRM,WealthManagement,SSMS,Prophet FIS,Hexawise,QuerySurge,Alteryx)

  • Involving in creating Defect Metrics, Demand Estimation, BAU documents , Cost Averaging , Resource Percentage Allocation and other business technology activities.

  • Increased customer satisfaction through thorough validation of user requirements before release.
  • Ensured compliance with industry standards by conducting regular audits of test documentation and processes.
  • Optimized resource allocation, assigning appropriate testers to specific projects based on expertise and skill set.
  • Managed vendor relationships, negotiating contracts for third-party testing services when necessary.
  • Conducted periodic reviews of test cases to ensure relevance and accuracy as specifications evolved over time.
  • Delivered high-quality releases under tight deadlines by prioritizing critical tasks and adjusting resources accordingly and simultaneously creating reusable assets for sector planning.
  • Reduced defect leakage by establishing rigorous testing procedures and standards.
  • Completed pre-implementation testing for new system modifications to assess potential impacts and helping clients to incorporate the FAST Implementation.
  • Played a key role in migrating Metlife to Brighthouse Pano1 distribution for both Life & Annuity products .
  • Tested functional and compatibility of new programs or updates in comparison to existing applications.
  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.

Associate Test Engineer

COGNIZANT
KOLKATA
01.202 - 02.202

Project 1 :- One of the major Insurance providers in USA and rest of the world

Roles and Responsibilities:- (JIRA ,Rally, Redwood Jobs, HP ALM – defect tool, SAP HANA DB, Microsoft SQL Server , SSMS , Zephyr Scale ,WINSCP – file transfer tool)

  • Experience in Insurance Domain working in both Life & Annuity products.
  • Policy Admin System - WMA,CyberLife, VARI,MetLife,NewYork Life.
  • Test scripting, Test execution, Test strategy designing.
  • Created Test cases and executed in all testing phases like Smoke Testing ,SIT, Regression and other E2E testing approach.
  • Performing Business Analyst roles for creating features and stories and handing to development team.
  • Critically evaluated information gathered from multiple sources and decomposed high-level information to distinguish and prioritize user requests.
  • Expertise working in DXC Policy Admin System Workflow in Actuarial for both Processing & Pre-Processing sections.
  • Gathering considerable knowledge from requirement documents and preparing story points and deployable requirements/stories in JIRA for downstream activities for all stakeholders.

System Engineer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
08.2018 - 12.2021

Project 1 :- UK Gas Industry.

Roles and Responsibilities :- (Salesforce, Zuora, Social Studio, Bit2Win, JIRA)

  • E2E Functional Testing in Salesforce, Web platform.
  • Queue Management in Salesforce.
  • Used Social Studio for Complain and Campaign management.
  • Role based testing in Salesforce.
  • Used Zuora Billing Platform for payment.
  • Test Strategy design, effort estimation, test scripting, test execution.
  • Managing Defect Lifecycle throughout SDLC process

Project 2 :- Auditing ,Risk & testing activities for Big 4 client

Roles and Responsibilities :- (Functional testing, Regression testing, UI testing, Cross-browser testing, Device testing, SharePoint 2013, office 365, HP QC, JIRA, Informatica 360 tool, MySQL)


  • Estimating test efforts required for release and task delegation within teams.
  • Creating test cases, test completion report, document of understanding and get it reviewed and approved/ signed off by relevant stakeholders.
  • Creating of daily status report with critical issues highlighted to senior leadership team & stake holders.
  • Project post release retrospections with all involved members and stakeholders.
  • Participating in poker planning, scrums, co-ordinate and worked with client managers, business analyst and development team.
  • Generated production graphs and analyzed production trends using charts and pivots.

Education

B. TECH (Bachelor of Technology) - Electronics Technology

West Bengal University of Technology
Bengal, West
06.2014 - 2018.06

Higher Secondary (XII - Science Education

West Bengal University of Higher Secondary Education
Haldia, West Bengal
05.2012 - 2014.04

Madhyamik -

West Bengal University of Secondary Education
Haldia, West Bengal
04.2011 - 2012.05

Skills

SAP HANA Database , MYSQL , SQL Server , SSMS

Certification

Advanced Excel - Udemy

Interests

Photography

Sports

Travel

Timeline

LOMA281

01-2025

Agile Methods Bronze Badge

01-2025

Business Analysis Fundamentals

09-2022

Business Skills - Knowledge management and Innovations

08-2022

Advanced Level Software testing – QA knowledge – Naukri Platform

07-2022

Microsoft Certified AZ-104 course (Azure Administrator Associate)

06-2022

Advanced Excel - Udemy

05-2022

DEG-Business Continuity management

08-2021

Programming Foundations - Software testing/QA - LinkedIn

01-2021

Business Continuity Management

01-2021

System Engineer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
08.2018 - 12.2021

B. TECH (Bachelor of Technology) - Electronics Technology

West Bengal University of Technology
06.2014 - 2018.06

Higher Secondary (XII - Science Education

West Bengal University of Higher Secondary Education
05.2012 - 2014.04

Madhyamik -

West Bengal University of Secondary Education
04.2011 - 2012.05

Senior Test Lead

Ernst And Young GDS
09.202 - Current

Associate Test Engineer

COGNIZANT
01.202 - 02.202

Languages

ENGLISH
Excellent
BENGALI
Excellent
HINDI
Very Good
SAPTARSHI DEYSenior Test Lead | Technology Consulting | EY-GDS