Arjun Kataria Email & Phone Number

Auckland, Nz

Auckland, Nz

Auckland, New Zealand

On my current client assignment, I am actively contributing as a tester, engaging in various testing activities such as functional testing, defect management, and regression testing. My daily tasks include:- Delivering testing solutions effectively in both traditional and agile environments, balancing independent work with seeking senior guidance when needed.- Defining and validating functional and non-functional requirements, identifying technology limitations, and assisting in mitigating quality risks.- Writing, reviewing, and maintaining software, ensuring adherence to version control practices and coding standards.- Creating and maintaining testing documentation, testing evidence and release notes to support clear communication.- Supporting and maintain existing systems and providing guidance and support to team members as and when required.- Applying expertise in Performance, Quality Engineering, and Security to enhance project outcomes.- Developing test plans, design and identify test conditions, execute tests, and manage defects to ensure comprehensive coverage.- Reviewing and defining requirements, performing root cause analysis, executing test suites, and applying quality practices throughout the project lifecycle.- Participating in agile ceremonies, mentoring teams to deliver working software, and collaborating with Business Owners to refine acceptance criteria.- Conducting performance risk assessments, developing workload models, executing performance tests, and integrating metrics to optimize performance.- Preparing daily status and test summary reports.- Conducting Defect Triage meetings.

Auckland, New Zealand

Working on client assignment where I am contributing as a tester and performing various testing activities including functional testing, defect management and regression testing.Some of the activities performed in my day-to-day are:- Handling support planning, design, and execution of integration and verification tests for hardware and software modifications.- Creating and verifying test plans and procedures.- Working with design team to understand design specifications.- Executing test cases.- Testing the system interface and data migration to identify defects if any. - Raising and managing defects in the defect management system (JIRA)- Prioritizing test cases and defects to ensure smooth flow of test execution.- Preparing daily status and test summary reports.- Conducting Defect Triage meetings.- Managing cross functional team coordination.Supporting and conducting daily stand-ups.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

MVP Studio is a start-up incubator that started as a software development company in 2010 and is into software development, consulting and BI & Tech team training today. The company has successfully launched and is currently working on many projects in the field of software development, decentralised web, BI, and talent incubation.I worked as an intern on Project 'Property.Community' (Project Keys), a cloud-based property management platform that allows different stakeholders of the property to interact with each other and manage their portfolios and investments by providing one single site with different logins for different user roles. As an intern my team and I:• Worked on analyzing medium size dataset for property analysis for the Australian states.• Used tools like SQL, MS Excel and Power BI for cleaning and standardization of raw datasets.• Did Data warehouse modelling and designing using SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio.• Created user-friendly and interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI and SSRS for interpreting and analyzing the data and transforming it into meaningful information.• Collected business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, and purchased sources.• Reduced irrelevancies by filtering and cleaning data with automated and manual data reviews.• Managed output and dashboards to effectively report on key business intelligence.

Roorkee

• Managed front desk operations for the branch ensuring best customer service.• Carefully reviewed account and credit records to determine the risk level associated with each applicant.• Helped clients identify their financial goals and identify strategies for achieving each target.• Stayed current on the loan market, available products and strategies for bringing in new customers.• Calculated the customer’s initial payment plans and repayment schedules for delinquent customers to bring loans current.• Completed loan applications with the full credit analyses and summaries of loan requests and submitted to loan review committees for approval.• Conducted site visits, builder visits and recovery visits.• Created a culture of continuous improvement, inspiring employees to take action to solve problems.

Pune Area, India

• Conducted daily, weekly and monthly review meetings with the team to discuss and plan business.• Collaborated with employees to improve processes at all levels and maintain high job satisfaction with low turnover.• Successfully managed a portfolio of 12,000 customers with a team of 2 sales executives, 7 collection executives and a manager.• Verified new areas sourced by CREM (Customer Relationship Executive Manager).• Constantly motivated the team with close mentoring and first-hand training for bringing business for the company.• Advanced team by recruiting, leading, teaching, and promoting growth opportunities.

Pune Area, India

• Analysis of J.K. Cement’s products in the assigned markets (Baramati, Daund and Indapur talukas) of Pune, Maharashtra.• Visiting retail and wholesale counters.• Understanding reasons for decreasing sales of J.K.’s products.• Assuring branding and increased visibility of J.K.’s products in the counters.• Survey about total number of counters and their details.• Generating orders for the company.• Building and maintain a good relationship with the channel.

Post Graduation Diploma In Business Information Systems, Business/Office Automation/Technology/Data Entry

Activities and Societies: • Executive member of The University of Canterbury Postgraduate Students' Association (UC PGSA) • Member.

Pgdm, It & Marketing

Activities and Societies: Participated in fests and various competitions. P.G.D.M in the field of IT & Marketing., presentations.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Marketing

Activities and Societies: Cultural coordinator for annual fest Organised and coordinated Annual fests for the college. Participated.