Junior Developer

Urvi Patel

https://www.linkedin.com/in/urvi-patel-8847782

https://github.com/learnbydoing/

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SUMMARY: Over 7 years of experience in the financial industry in multiple roles, including software development, and currently pursuing Master's degree in Computer Science at DePaul University. Acquired familiarity with various programming languages, object-oriented design, and the software development life cycle as part of a software development team.

EXPERIENCE:

BlueBolt Solutions

Junior Web Developer

October 2015 to May 2016

Co-developed UWP application for an asset management system to serve as demo of finished product, added screens and functionality as needed.

Achieved desired responsiveness for front end of UWP application using XAML

Completed development tasks for various features of UWP demo application, as well as for handling data export to Mongo database

Developed features to add to search functionality for various websites, and made changes to front end via JavaScript and Angular

HERE

Software Development Engineer in Test

June 2015 to September 2015

Built software using Maven and deploying software to AWS

Wrote jBehave tests and creating corresponding stories to test subsystem

Pair programmed with developers to learn new features

Participated in daily Scrums, Sprint planning meetings and retrospectives, as well as making estimations

Options City Software, Inc.

Testing Engineer

August 2014 to May 2015

Created test plan for testing of flagship trading product, included detailed step by step procedures for running tests

Evaluated in-house tool for record and playback of manual GUI tests, creating new scenarios as needed

Investigated test management tools for purchase

Developed and maintained automated tests, written in Java

Executed existing tests and reported bugs/enhancements in JIRA as needed

QRM

Senior Product Analyst - Test Automation

September 2012 to July 2014

Developed new data driven Coded UI tests in C# to add to existing test suites and executed them on a VM via Microsoft Test Manager

Updated existing Coded UI tests to reflect changing business needs

Investigated failures of 1000+ nightly automation tests for Risk Management and Mortgage Banking application, and updated Coded UI tests as needed.

Acted as liaison between automation developer and product teams to help resolve issues with nightly regressions

Reviewed Microsoft Test Manager test cases from product teams and provided appropriate feedback

Managed developer backlog and track progress of automated test creation and delivery

Belvedere Trading

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst/Release Manager

August 2007 to August 2012

Developed in-house C# application used for building software. Added features, changed design, and updated GUI to reflect changing requirements of team members, and trained users as tool was deployed

Upgraded software-building application from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010, rewriting code to use new classes and methods

Overhauled existing deployment tool to allow quick and accurate deployment of software

Identified inefficiencies in deployment process and wrote tools using Team Foundation Server API to automate tasks

Participated actively in Scrum process by creating sprint items, attending stand-up meetings, and making estimations

Developed tool in C# to generate trading application software in release mode, which improved performance by 30%

Developed 1200+ unit tests in C# for 4 different subsystems of proprietary trading application, enhancing and optimizing tests to allow automated runs with nightly builds

Designed and implemented automation tests in C# for WPF application

Mentored junior level testers in writing of unit tests, explanation of various subsystems, coding techniques, and C# concepts

Published InfoPath form to SharePoint to collect feedback from traders on fixes or new features added to software, thus documenting and organizing the entire deployment effort. Development of form entailed writing a web service in C# to perform queries of TFS

Performed comprehensive GUI testing of various proprietary trading applications and, using Visual Studio debugger, located errors in code. Also provided code changes to resolve bugs and submitted fix to source control

Created and maintained test suites for various trading applications

Designed and executed acceptance tests

Deployed releases from 4 project teams on an aggressive schedule, include merging and building of code post-deployment

Mentored team members on deployment processes and guidelines

EDUCATION:

DePaul University

Master of Science, Computer Science

Expected Winter 2018

University of Illinois at Chicago

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering

SOFTWARE: Coded UI, Microsoft Test Manager, Visual Studio 2015, Team Foundation Server, Eclipse, Git, Linux

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C#, Java, SQL

CITIZENSHIP STATUS: U.S. Citizen

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