Janny P. S. Kong

[email protected]

 

Summary                            Good analytical, organization, and interpersonal skills.  Competent in problem solving.  Able to work independently and in a team environment with minimum supervision.

 

Experience                        Codexa Corp., Pasadena, CA

Software Quality Assurance Engineer                             July 2000 - Present

-          Created and performed test strategies, procedures and scripts for an internet financial information application built on J2EE platform, using Gemstone/J, Sybase as databases and interfaced with Java WebStart; wrote test plan and test report for a product release.

 

-          Deployed two product releases with increasing involvement in design, analysis, and review; supported field staff to resolve customers’ problems; compiled customer suggestion lists for future system enhancements.

 

-          Set up and maintained defect tracking system to reduce defect fix turn-around; prepared defect metrics and real-time statistics to analyze defect life cycle for schedule tracking, and for future planning and improvement.

 

-          Utilized the automated test tool to minimize human effort in regression testing; performed stress tests using Astra LoadTest to provide analysis for current and future performance improvement.

 

-          Interacted with developers and business requirement panel to provide positive inputs during the design phase of product release; heavily participated in UI design, applying human factor engineering to development.

 

-          Involved in building the Quality Assurance team by initiating team environment, setting up QA test machine, and evaluating and adopting both regression and stress test tools.

 

Globeset, Inc., Austin, TX

Full-time Internship Tester                                      June 1999 - August 1999

-          Tested an electronic wallet software that employed smart chip technology, for functional completeness, error handling and robustness.

-          Troubleshot problems, and logged and communicated test results to developers.

-          Trained new employees to perform the above job responsibilities.

 

Skills                                  Computer Languages: Java, C++, C, HTML, Assembly language MC680X0, SQL, Pascal, Haskell

Tools: Rational ClearQuest, Mercury Interactive Astra QuickTest & LoadTest, Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Flash

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Macintosh, DOS

Fluent in Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)

 

Education                          The University of Texas at Austin

College of Natural Sciences

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Sciences                                          May 2000

College of Business Administration

Business Foundation Certificate Program                                     May 2000

 

Class                                   -    Developed the backend of an auction management system using Java.

Project                              -    Created disk simulator and workload generator using C++ and CSIM.

-       Implemented Matrix ADT & Graph ADT using C++; designed appropriate test cases for the ADTs.

-    Wrote simple lexical analyzer and assembler using assembly language.

-       Prepared user manual for a personal data management application.

 

Activities                           Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Member, 1996-present;

Junior Officer - business event, 1997-1998

Hong Kong Student Association, Member, 1996-2000

Natural Sciences Council, Member, 1999-2000

International Office, Orientation Volunteer Coordinator, 1998;

Orientation Volunteer, 1997

 

References                       Available upon request