Zachary Hitchens

GitHub.com/thecleanmonk

Philadelphia, PA

EXPERIENCE

Upwork.com, Philadelphia, PA – Web Developer

July 2019 to Current

-Created a weather application using national weather service API, ReactJS, React Router and Bootstrap.

-Developed a fully animated landing page for a local business using Bootstrap, CSS and Javascript.

-Developed a dynamic blogging site for a client using the Django web framework and SQLite which features a fully functional backend with login/logout/register and post features.

-Created a recipe search application for a client using React.JS, React-Router and Bootstrap.

-Performed end to end api testing for a restful application

Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia, PA – Automation Engineer

October 2018 to August 2019

-Automated numerous test cases using Selenium in a C# framework

-Performed API testing using Postman, SoapUI and CURL.

-Integrated API based testing into automation framework for managing PubMed data verification.

-Automated the process of metrics retrieval from Microsoft’s TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA – Automation Engineer

May 2018 to October 2018

-Automated test cases using Selenium and a Java based framework

-Used Jenkins as a Constant Integration server to Queue and manage job runs.

-Contributed features to current in house tools developed in Python / Java

-Developed a run comparison tool which helped prevent major flaws from entering our codebase.

-Worked closely with offshore engineers for product releases, pipelines or hotfixes.

-Lead manual QA efforts for product releases in combination with automated test runs to ensure product quality.

Quattro Direct, Berwyn, PA – Quality Assurance Technician

August 2017 to May 2018

-Created a Quality Assurance plan with associated documentation for an organization of 50+ employees.

-Developed In house and client emails using the Foundation Framework for building custom emails

-Scraped websites for client data using Selenium, BeautifulSoup4 and Python 3

FourFront LLC, Berwyn, PA – Web Developer

(Internship)

April 2017 to July 2017

-Managed a portfolio of 20+ live wordpress sites

-Provide support for clients based on request

-Created and modified wordpress plugins

-Created custom wordpress themes and child themes

-Revamped the UI for our In House SEO tool

Brio Solutions, Ft Washington, PA — Jr Software Developer (Internship)

August 2016 to April 2017

-Created website front-end UI for numerous clients from mockups using Javascript, HTML and SaSS

-Worked with numerous backend technologies to automate business processes and logic with SQL Server while maintaining the use of the MVC Framework.

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SKILLS

Front-End Development

QA Automation

Email Development

Process automation

Programming Languages

Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, CSS, Ruby

Frameworks / CMS

React.JS,Django, Flask, Node.JS,Foundation 6, Bootstrap, WordPress, Watir

Interests

CSS / JavaScript Animations

Restful / SOAP API’s

Database Architecture

Network Security

Systems Modelling

Education

Temple University

Computer Science, 85 credits complete.

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