Quality Assurance Software

Hardik R. Nathwani

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Education:

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA - Master of Science,

Computer Science May 2010

University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India - Bachelor of Engineering, Information

Technology June 2008

Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education, India - 3 Year Diploma in

Computer Engineering June 2005

Relevant Coursework:

Operating Systems, Database Systems, Analysis of Algorithm, Software

Engineering, Web Technologies, Computer Networks, Advanced Mobile Devices

and Game Consoles, Computer Security, 3D Graphics and Rendering, Software

Architecture, Software Engineering, Microprocessors.

Technical Skills:

Programming Languages : C, C++, C# .NET, Java, Visual Basic 6.0

Web Technologies : HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, PERL, PHP,

AJAX, JSON

Database System : MS Access, SQL+, MySQL, SQL Server

Applications : MS Office, Macromedia Flash, Apache 1.3,

Tomcat 1.4

Tools : Adobe Suite CS3, Visual Studio 2008, MS

Project, Wireshark, CMS-Joomla

Operating Systems Platform : Windows XP, Server2008, Vista,

Macintosh, DOS, UNIX

Work Experience:

Web Developer/IT Consultant Intern, TTG Consultants (June 2009 - Present)

Developing online programs, coded using Joomla, PHP, MySQL and Flash.

Performing Search Engine Optimization, working with multimedia

applications. Projects related to server side scripting using Perl and CGI.

Quality Assurance Intern - MySpace (Feb 2010 - Present)

Job responsibilities include Test Plan and Test case creation, Writing and

Defect Tracking. Practicing Multi-team collaboration, Software Development

life cycle, Software Testing Life Cycle and SCRUM Methodology

Academic Projects:

. Research Paper - Honeypots : Concepts and Research Implementation

Researched on Honeypots in computer security under the guidance and

supervision of Dr. Clifford Neuman.

. I-phone Game Development - Cast Away (Jan 2009 - May 2009)

Developed a game named 'Cast Away' for I-phone using Objective-C, I-phone

SDK under the banner of USC Game pipe Laboratory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIiUkCP30jY

. Google Maps Application - using AJAX/JSON (March 2009)

A rich internet application was developed using the Google Maps API, Flickr

with the technology base of AJAX, JSON, Java Script and HTML

. Server Side Scripting - PERL, XML Parsing - DOM and JavaScript (Feb

2009)

Exercise on server side scripting, creating website, extracting &displaying

data from websites through PERL script. Used the DOM paradigm, an existing

XML parser & JavaScript to transform the content of an XML page into an

HTML page

. Thread Synchronization, Multiprogramming and System Calls (Aug 2008 -

Dec 2008)

Implementation of threading &thread synchronization & system calls for

synchronization and multiprogramming

Calculated, allocated & coded the physical memory management for

multiprogramming, coded &tested modules

. Virtual Memory, Distributed System Implementation/Socket Programming

(Aug 2008, March 2009)

Designed coded & tested the software-management for the Translation Look-

aside Buffer (TLB), page replacement policies. Implementing a distributed

system allowing multiple clients to communicate with one server

. Database for a Hospital (Aug 2008 - Dec 2008)

Designed a Classified Interrelated Object Model (CIOM) & EER diagram,

Relational Database and XML Database was created and queries were

implemented using MySQL, XPATH, XQUERY were used to fire queries on XML

database

. Seamless Data Transfer Engine (July 2007 - June 2008)

Provided a platform independent data migration system where data can be

migrated between Oracle, XMLs and Java irrespective of the schema.

Extra Curricular Activities:

Active Member - Association of Indian Students, USC

Event head and Event Co-coordinator - Computer Society of India

General Secretary - Was honored as the head of the student body for my

diploma college

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