Valentin Modest, Ticu DOB: 10.03.1984 Phone: 0741.050.820 Download as document

Summary

- Since 2005, experienced in Software Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Proficient in functional, negative, regression, system integration, acceptance, load/performance, security, and performance testing
- Excellent knowledge and working experience in with test planning, test execution and test results analyses
- Solid expertise in data management tools like JIRA, QATrack and ApTest Manager
- Good background in software automation tools like Borland SilkTest and TestComplete

Experience

April 2010 – still working

QA Software Engineer at DI.TECH RO

I am involved in the following areas:
- product quality control and improvement
- automation test case development
- creation of application installer package

Details:

XTEL is committed to helping consumer goods manufacturers to achieve excellent sales performance, by enabling them to define and execute successful sales and marketing strategies.

My job is to develop automated test cases, using Visual Basic language, with Test Complete tool. XTEL product is using Silverlight as a web base application; my challenge is to write test scripts that interact with Silverlight controls (recognition of control’s properties, events and functions) and to offer a good automated solution with an accurate bugs/errors tracking.

I am also involved in creation of the application installer, using Inno Setup as a base installation tool but where I had to find solutions for: integrating Oracle client/database installation and configuration, handling the settings of a loopback interface, making checks and installations for .Net Framework versions, setting up scheduling jobs and handle the installation for each component in a properly way, depending on the user OS, UAC and user rights.

I am also involved in creation of an automated tool which handles a fast solution for building and publishing process of the application using TFS as a back end.

January 2008 – January 2010

QA Software Engineer at Gemini Solutions SRL

I was working on CISCO FlipShare product and I was involved in the following areas:
- product quality control and improvement
- SD & HD video formats editing
- codec support and integration on Windows and MAC platforms
- camera firmware and soft testing
- test cases and test plans authoring

Details:

FlipShare is a video library/editing tool for CISCO Flip Video Camera and I was involved in testing modules like: camera firmware testing, tool vs camera integration, videos editing, videos online sharing (sharing via email, YouTube, MySpace and FaceBook), firmware and software updates. My job was to provide quality assurance to the FlipShare product, by working directly with the developers team and the client, to: test the product based on test plans; design test scenarios (test cases) and test plan updates; bugs regression verification; exploratory testing; working directly with the developers team to provide up to date verifications; bugs authoring using JIRA tool; and to provide product improvements ideas.

March 2007 – December 2007

QA Analyst at Embarcadero Technologies

I was working on DBArtisan and RapidSQL products, involved in the following areas:
- products quality control and improvement
- DBMS enhanced data and connection management
- MSSQL, ORACLE, DB2 databases platforms support and exploitation
- DBMS SQL editor and execution
- developer in automatic testing (Borland SilkTest)
- test cases and test plans authoring

Details:

DBArtisan is a cross-platform database (MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL) administration tool and I was involved in testing modules like: databases connection, databases objects integration and manipulation, SQL scripting editor, databases objects wizards and properties, databases performance analyst and application installer. I was directly involved in test cases authoring and test plan updates using QATrack management tool; bugs authoring (test execution steps, expected results and actual results) using JIRA tool; collaborating with developer team for up to dates verification; product verification using functional, performance, regression, negative, acceptance and load/performance testing; and developing automated tests for product functionality and UI, using Borland SilkTest.

July 2007 – October 2007

Software Analyst at TV Guide

I was involved in the following area:
- quality control of data content crawlers
- test cases and test plans authoring

Details:

My job was to verify the performance and the quality of a web content crawler tool, into XML files format. I was testing the product by using a test plan, authoring test cases and bugs authoring.

August 2006 – January 2007

Software Analyst at ApexSQL

I was working on ApexSQL Doc, ApexSQL Edit and ApexSQL Script products, involved in the following areas:
- quality improvement of products
- MSSQL platform support and integration
- test cases and test plans authoring
- requirements gathering
- technical Writing: I was involved in application help files writing

Details:

ApexSQL products are MSSQL database administration and manipulation tools. My QA job was to verify the functionality and the performance of the products using: negative, exploratory, acceptance and load/performance testing. I also was involved in customers support services by directly communicate with the clients providing help/information in using/fixing products issues.

January 2005 – February 2006

Software Developer and UI Designer at JelloTech

I was working on data transfer (messenger) as a project base application. I was involved in the following areas:
- software developing team leader
- software developing
- software UI design
- quality control of the product

Details:

I was responsible for the design, development, implementation and testing of an internet messenger based application, from scratch. The application included following features: html/xml based messaging, emoticons and text manipulation, file transfer, webcam and voice communication, database integration (login, contacts list, settings for each user/contact).

Other Experience

Software Developer for Drawing4Kids

I was involved in developing Drawing4Kids software which is a paint style application for children. This program is intended to teach small kids to handle the mouse and have fun with colors, shapes and sounds. It has a friendly user interface, nice sounds (on colors tab there are piano musical notes) and a variety of stamps models. For more information about the features or to try a the product please visit this page.

Technology used: GDI, DirectX

Platform: Windows Application

Software Developer for Content Keywords

I was involved in developing Content Keywords software. Content Keywords is a solution that helps you to find the proper keywords for your web pages content. Content Keywords is a tool that simplifier the job in searching and analyze the keywords within your web pages. The software can search, count keywords and display statistics regarding the appearing rate and density for specific words. For more information about the features or to try a demo of the product please visit this page.

Technology used:

Platform: Windows Application

QA Analist for ODesk project

On this project, my job was to analyze a product and to author test cases based on the product specification. The client had the software in a basic development stage and I had to create a test plan with test cases, for the testing team that will work on the project. I had to analyze the specification, to interact with one of the developers and to collect information about the product that will be developed. Based on this information I had to create the testing plan for all the features of the product. The product was a image viewer, editor and management tool. The test plan was structured in: Installation, Portability, Performance, Smoke, Functionality and Negative test cases; the test cases were organized by their importance and by scenarios.

Technology used:

Platform:

Software Developer for IsTid

My job was to develop a time sheet / time tracker web application with both user and admin sides (IsTid). The application is to provide management and tracking of employees tasks. Each employee can be assigned to one or more projects and for each project, the employee can track the time spent on the tasks, create new projects, assign the projects to other employees, generate reports. The admin is able to browse and edit all employees’ information, to generate reports with the working hours and to send the invoices with the billing information.

Technology used: ASP, JQuery, ADODB

Platform: Web Application, MS SQL Server

Software Developer for Skype Manager

My job was to create software that will crawl, in real time, the data from Skype Manager and will show the calls status for each contact. The software extract for each user: country, total credit, remain credit, number of calls per week, number of calls today and if he is in a call or not. The information is shown in real time and it is grouped by user’s country. The software has the feature to manage how the users are shown by changing the user name or changing their country.

Technology used: Skype API, DOM

Platform: Windows Application

Software Developer SkypeTracker

My job was to develop an application that will integrate with Skype messenger and monitor the activity for specific users. The application reads the contact list from Skype, the user is allow select all contacts or some of them and then, the application will monitor the online hours for the selected users. User can export reports by date or by contacts with the online statuses (logged in vs logged out) of the users.

Technology used: Skype API

Platform: Windows Application

Windows 7 Installer

My job was to create an installation solution for software developed in QT. I had to check the dependencies used by the application (QT, VS and some custom made libraries), to understand, for each library, which one should be installed as shared file, which one should be registered into system folder or application folder and to integrate, into installer, a serial key verification solution.

Technology used: Inno Setup

Platform: Windows Application

Develop automated tests for a proof of concept

My job was to develop an automated functional test for a plane tickets reservation online system. I had to understand how the website’s elements were structured, to understand how the system works and to create the automation tests. I had to write code that will interact with the html elements and some flash objects.

Technology used: Test Complete, DOM, ActionScript

Platform: Web Browser IE and Firefox

Develop a SEO solution for Iatar Click

Currently I am working on a SEO solution to increase visitors traffic of a website. The solution is a 2-way points per click system, which means: one way is that you need points to make your website(s) available in the listing and the second way is that you will receive points by viewing other website(s). In short words, a user can increase the traffic to his website, by simple visit other websites. The website will also provide traffic tracking solution for registered users with filters for: visitors IP, geographic locations, unique visitors, referral URL and the platform they came from.

Technology used: PHP, JQuery, JavaScript, Google Charts, MySQL

Platform: Web Browser

Software/Technologies

Operating Systems: Windows Platforms (XP, Vista, Win7 (32b/64b)), Mac Platforms (Tiger, Leopard)
Database Platforms: MSSQL; Oracle; DB2; MS Access
Software Developing: Visual Basic 6.0 & .Net;
Automation Tools: Borland SilkTest, Test Complete
Windows Technologies: DirectX, GDI, TCPIP, ODBC
Video Codec Integration: xvid, ffmpeg (Windows OS), 3ivx (Mac OS)
Video Processing: Virtual Dub
System / Network Utilities: VMWare, Virtual Box, Process Explorer, Process Monitor / WPE (Pocket Editor)
Bugs Trackers Tools: JIRA
Test Cases Trackers Tools: QATraq, ApTest Manager
Web Technologies: CSS; ASP; PSP; JQuery, Flash (Action script), DOM
Graphic Manipulation: Paint Shop Pro; Adobe Photo Shop; graphic/photo processing