Vipul Patel
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Education:
Masters in Computer Applications
Bachelor of Engineering
Certifications MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer in .NET)
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Recognitions Awarded the MVP award from Microsoft.
Experience:
Aug ‘04-Present St Jude Medical LA, CA
St Jude Medical is an industry leader in the field of cardio-devices. The project involves verification of Next Generation Programmer.
Platform Java, Excel, TDE
Operating Systems Windows 2000/XP
Testing tools TDE
Duration 1 year – ongoing
(Stages involved: Analysis, Testing)
Software Test Engineer
– Responsible for developing Test design, automated as well as manual test scripts and executing the same.
– Formulating test strategy for the use cases.
Till – Aug ’04
Software Engineer
Executed projects for multiple clients.
a. Telelogic USA (DOORS Test Director Integration, C#, ASP.NET Web-service)
Platform C#, .NET, XML Web Services, VS Installer
Operating Systems Windows 2000/XP
Testing tools N/A
Telelogic Technologies Ltd. is the leading provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development. The project involved designing and implementing a XML web service in C# which would communicate between DOORS (Requirements Tool) and Test Director (Test Management Software) and synchronize the datasets between the two applications. This would help see which requirements were matched with test scripts.
(Stages involved: Coding, Testing)
Software Developer, Build & Release Engineer
– Implemented the web service which communicated between Test Director and DOORS
– Created the installer for deployment of the product.
b. Vorne USA (Display-Pro XL , C#, ASP.NET)
Platform VC#. NET, ASP.NET, XML, MSDE
Operating Systems Windows 2000/XP
Testing tools Manual testing
The project involved creating an integrated Windows-cum-web application suite called Display-Pro XL, designed to work with Vorne-compatible industrial devices. This software is designed to configure products for specific applications as well as support factory floor data acquisition and data distribution, which would communicate between industrial displays and set/get values from it through serial port communication through RS-232 and RS-485 interfaces. The data was stored in XML files and in MSDE.
(Stages involved: Analysis, Coding, and Testing)
Software Development & Test Engineer, Build & Release Engineer
– Study of Functional Specifications of the application and formulating the test strategy.
– Implementing functionality as per Functional Specifications
– Preparation of exhaustive test cases in accordance with the functional specifications and executing them in coordination with the developers. The scope of the test cases included unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing.
– Formulation of coding standards guidelines and verification of the implementation of the same in the developed code.
– Make suggestions/recommendations to the client to make the requirements specifications document more understandable.
– Report the test results to the development team and verify the fixes implemented.
– Created the installer for deployment of the product.
c. Telelogic (DOORS 6.1 Internationalization, C++)
Platform VC++ 6.0, VB 6.0
Operating Systems Windows NT/2000/XP (English/Chinese/Japanese/
Korean/Taiwanese), Unix (Solaris 2.7/2.8), Citrix
Testing tools Test Director, WinRunner
(Stages involved: Testing)
Software Test Engineer
The project involved internationalization & localization of the already existing requirements management software of Telelogic DOORS. The end product was the first truly internationalized product in the field of requirements management software.
– Managed a team of 3 testers
– Study of Functional Specifications of the application and formulating the test strategy.
– Preparation of test cases in accordance to the functional specifications.
– Guiding a team of dedicated testers for design and executing the test cases.
– Report the findings to the development team and verify the fixes implemented.
– Formulation of coding standards guidelines and verification of the implementation of the same in the developed code.
d. Dairy Centric Integrated Application
Platform VB 6.0, SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Transaction
Server
Client Uttam Dairy
The project involved automation of all the basic processes of a typical dairy industry, such as Inventory management, Purchase order management, Veterinary module, Marketing, Sales, Fixed deposits, etc. The project involved requirements study of the dairy industry, developing GUI prototypes of the designated modules.
Responsibilities:
· Study of Functional Specifications for the inventory module.
· Review of Design.
· Design and coding of application, business and data layers of the application.
· Preparation of test cases for the implemented functionality and executing the same.
· Fixing the defects found during testing.
e. Metrics Generator
Platform VC++ 6.0, Crystal Reports
Case Tools Visio
Client Patni
The project involved development of a Software Metrics generator application. The metrics to be evaluated included the different metrics of project, class, file, such as LOC, number of functions, number of classes, number of private members, public member, protected members, etc.
The developed application was used to determine the actual efforts put in by a person by evaluating the source code developed.
Technical Programming Languages: C#
Operating systems: Windows (all platforms)
Databases: MS SQL Server
Other Activities: Assistant Manager, Mumbai User Group
Chairperson (Computer Society of India, Nirma University Chapter – academic)