Esha Raizada — QA Manager

• Lead QA Analyst with experience in financial services, Asset Management and Clearing House domain with focus on and Quality and Project Management. • Strong experience in software quality from both manual and automation perspective. • Experience in Project kick-off, Requirement gathering, Scope identification, Creating Strategy, Planning & Estimation, and status reporting. • Led the project management of multiple QA cycles, including test scenario creation, execution, documentation and reporting. • Conducted detailed root cause analysis and troubleshooting of log files to resolve defects and improve system reliability. • Strong experience in various form of Black box testing like Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Compatibility Testing, Integration Testing etc • Strong experience in SQL queries and UNIX commands to analyse test results and create comprehensive test scenarios. • Experience in establishing and reporting on processes, best practices and metrices for QA organization to ensure continuous improvement and tracking. • Experience in the ownership of non-prod environments including troubleshooting issues, co-ordinating DB refresh and deployment to make sure it is ready for QA and User Testing activities. • Experience in working in AGILE, Hybrid methodologies. • Experience in running Integration Testing cycles with multiple teams involved in the back end clearing. • Good understanding of web automation in development, execution and maintenance of scripts. • Good experience in using Selenium with Cucumber on BDD framework and Page Object Model • Good Experience with TestNG, Excel and DB verification and CI/CD. • Good Experience in API testing using Postman. • Experience on Swing automation using HP-UFT. • Strong understanding of Back End Clearing domain from technical and functional perspective for the entire lifecycle including Contract Setup, Member Onboarding, Asset management, Position Management, Settlement Management, Pricing, Margining, Collateral Reconciliation, Swift, Delivery Processing and Reporting • Strong understanding of Order and Trade Lifecycle. Understanding of Matching, Execution and Settlement • Strong working knowledge of Equities, Fixed Income and Derivative (Options, Futures) Markets leading to improved testing accuracy. • Good understanding of Aladdin platform primarily focusing on Portfolio Construction. • Experience in mentoring junior team members and new hires from onboarding, BAU and career progression.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a QA Automation expert in the Fintech industry.

Location: New York, New York, United States

Experience: 14 yrs 11 mos

Skills

Qa Automation
Integration Testing
Functional Testing
Regression Testing
Automation Testing
Data Management
Testing

Career Highlights

Expert in QA Automation and Integration Testing.
Strong background in financial services and asset management.
Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.

Work Experience

Intercontinental Exchange

Lead QA Analyst (9 yrs 3 mos)

Combustion Group

Software Engineer (3 mos)

EY

Senior Test Engineer (5 mos)

BlackRock

Analyst(II) (2 yrs)

Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets

Consultant (3 yrs 3 mos)

Education

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) at Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Motivational Pathway

Esha Raizada

QA Manager

New York, New York, United States14 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in QA Automation and Integration Testing.
Strong background in financial services and asset management.
Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a QA Automation expert in the Fintech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Qa AutomationIntegration TestingFunctional TestingRegression TestingAutomation TestingData ManagementTesting

Other Skills

ALMBlack box testingDB2HP QTPJCLJIRAManual TestingOracleQCQTPQuality CenterREXXRequirements AnalysisSQLSelenium

About

Experience

14 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Intercontinental exchange

Lead QA Analyst

Mar 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

SeleniumUnixQA AutomationSQLIntegration Testing

Combustion group

Software Engineer

Dec 2016 – Mar 2017 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

Ey

Senior Test Engineer

Oct 2015 – Mar 2016 · 5 mos

Description:
Länsförsäkringar is a Swedish insurance company that uses FADATA tool for creation of Policies using Policy center module and convert them into various insurance related documents which will send to client. Verification of documents includes xml generated documents which needs to be verified against business rules given by the client.
Responsibilities:
 Analysis of the Specifications and creation of Test Cases according to the functional requirements.
 Checked the data for premium verification and interacted with Team lead and developers while testing the application.
 Documented test cases for Functional and Regression Testing.
 Experience with BRD’s(Business requirements documents)
 Created and ran various SQL queries to verify and validate Database in SQL Server.
 Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes Functionality Testing and Regression Testing of the Application, its interfaces using ALM.
 Compared actual and expected test results, discussed the defects in defect meeting with development team
 Participated in bug triage meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug and responsible for tracking of the bug life cycle using Jira.

SQLALMFunctional TestingRegression TestingJIRA

Blackrock

Analyst(II)

Oct 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs

Description:
Portfolio Construction is one of the major applications of Blackrock’s Aladdin product which helps Portfolio managers to understand and analyze various types of investment work, and combine them to address investor’s personal investment objectives. It also factors such as attitude to risk the investment and the expected life of the investment. Managers can view a single or multiple portfolios in different customizable views to get a better and quick judgment. It also helps the Portfolio Managers to rebalance their portfolios.
Responsibilities:
 Participated with product team to gain understanding of business workflows from business users like BRS teams.
 Analyse test requirements from Jira and scope of testing of specific modules within PfC
 Document test cases based on new functional changes and test execution of the same using ALM .
 Participated in Test Case reviews and shared my feedback with the team.
 Attended defect triage meetings and communicate test results/ risks to leads.
 Refactor existing automated scripts as per change in application to stabilize automated regression pack using QTP.
 Create new automated scripts for the newly added test cases in regression suite using QTP.
 Document integration scenarios of PfC with other Aladdin applications like TradeEntry, OMS, ADAM, Dashboard etc

QTPALMIntegration TestingAutomation Testing

Genpact headstrong capital markets

Consultant

Jun 2010 – Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Description:
A trading platform which dealt with the complete life cycle of the trading of Alternative Investment products and FX including approvals from various regions for EU, ZU and Asia Pacific regions.
Responsibilities:
 Test Case Enrichment due to changes in application.
 Test Case Execution of Regression and Functional Test Scripts.
 Involved in defect analyses and Reporting.
 Involved in analyzing user business requirements, functional specifications.
 Performed Black box testing.
 Written and executed Test cases and Test Script after reviewing the business required document and technical specifications.
 Written Manually Functional Test cases for manual Testing.
 Attended Business meetings, discussed the issues for testing further enhancements.
 Logged the defects using ALM.
End Client: Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Position Title: Senior Associate
Duration: Aug 2010 - Feb 2011
Project: Test Data Management and Sanitization
Tools used: Quality Center 10.0,SQL,JCL,DB2
Description: TDMS project is an initiative by MSSB to provide masked data for non-production environments like Dev and QA, so that sensitive information of clients can not exposed to various vendors. It has two parts masking of Mainframe data objects (Files and DB2 tables) and Distributed databases
Responsibilities:
 Analyzing and understanding the requirements of the project.
 Writing Scenarios covering each area of functionality.
 Writing manual test cases from the scenarios.
 Build automated tools in JCL, Rexx and DFSORT in mainframe for testing mainframe data objects (files and tables).
 Retesting the defects and tracking them to closure.
 Taking calls with clients and suggest possible solutions to Dev.