QA Professional

VINCENT ZARCARO, JR.

********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-zarcaro-b5b92a15/

Port Monmouth, NJ 07758 Cell: 732-***-****

Quality Assurance & Scrum Master Professional

SUMMARY:

● Specialties: Quality Assurance, Manual functional testing, Agile development, Test plan-Test case-User story authoring, Certified Scrum Master, Project Management, JIRA, Zephyr, Collaboration, Documentation, E-commerce testing, Functional requirements, Business Process Management.

● Exceptional attention to detail, strong decision-making skills, adaptable to change, excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills, and the ability to thrive in fast paced environments.

● Application technologies include web and mobile based, Open Source, JIRA, Zephyr, Test Rails, Drupal, AEM, Browserstack, jQuery, HTML5, Composer, Wordpress, Cucumber, Java, Selenium, AWS, Confluence, ATDD & BDD, CMS, Ontology, and Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid methodologies. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Reactive Core, New York, New York 09/2019-02/2020

QA Manager / Release Manager / Manual Tester

● Responsible for writing and execution of test cases and user stories for all new functionality as part of an Agile team using JIRA for issue tracking and Zephyr for storage and reusability of test cases.

● Responsible for implementation of QA Agile practices, including the addition of Cucumber code to JIRA tickets, thereby moving the functional testing cycle from four weeks to two weeks.

● Responsible for all functional, integration, and regression testing before sign-off of code deployment.

● Managed a move to a Continuous Integration-Continuous Deployment environment. Managed the RFP process including vendor selection, Statements of Work, and implementation. QualiTest Group, Bridgewater, NJ 07/2018-09/2019

Senior Quality Assurance Manual Tester (Contractor)

● Responsible for testing of Drupal 7 CMS for large scale marketing website deployment for a major consumer goods company, working towards enabling e-commerce and order management systems for B2C, while moving multiple technologies into one technical stack.

● Wrote Acceptance Test Driven Development User stories using Cucumber code in JIRA tickets.

● Tools include Drupal for CMS, JIRA for story and bug tracking, Cucumber for ATDD, Test Rails for test case storage, Tealium for analytics, NVDA, Wave plug in, Color Contrast Analyzer and Windows Narrator for ADA testing.

Ernst & Young-North-Point Digital, New York, NY 10/2014-04/2018 QA Manager / Scrum Master / Manual Tester

● Responsible for delivery of software to all clients of EY-NP including digital media companies, Fortune 500 companies, and e-commerce supply companies, looking for web-based solutions as a dual-role Scrum Master/ Manual Tester.

● Manually test and implement large open source systems using Drupal 7, for customer-facing internet websites, and customer-centric intranet systems using Scrum-Agile Methodologies. Identify key test cases/epics in JIRA for the automation team to allow for quicker regression and acceptance testing using Selenium.

● Test a broad array of web technologies, content management systems (CMS), Adobe Experience Manager

(AEM), database technologies, search tools, back-end integration and front-end development tools. 1

VINCENT ZARCARO, JR.

********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-zarcaro-b5b92a15/ Port Monmouth, NJ 07758 Cell: 732-***-****

John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ 03/2014-10/2014

SQA Test Lead

● Responsible for manually testing software updates for Wiley’s content management system for their Global Education market of GECMS, utilizing EMC’s Documentum system, and JIRA.

● Active management of off-shore QA resources for the JBoss middleware upgrade of the WileyPlus project. Macmillan Publishing, New York, NY 11/2011-03/2014 Quality Assurance Engineer

● Responsible for the overall testing of all Macmillan New Ventures products including Universal Gradebook, DigiFirst product line, digital media, content, services, and Onyx CRM systems.

● Sole manual QA resource on the data migration of Onyx CRM system to Salesforce CRM system. Rolled out to a pilot group of top six salespeople with no interruptions to Production. MGD Services, Inc., Wayne, NJ 01/2011-09/2011

Quality Assurance Manager (Contractor)

● As a consultant to a nationwide roofing shingle manufacturer, the team was able to increase the weekly build change request volume by approximately 25%, inclusive of internal (PeopleSoft, TeamTrack, SharePoint, etc.) and external (customer facing .Net) systems.

● Responsible for release coordination, test schedules and the certification of all production impacting releases

● Responsible for increasing the automation regression/smoke test suite to include new functionality, which led to an approximately 15% increase in the number of core automated test cases, in 7 months. Partsearch Technologies, New York, NY 01/2010-11/2010 Quality Assurance Project Lead

● Ensured corrective measures met acceptable reliability standards. Created Master Test Plans and test cases, coordinated the creation of Test Scenarios/Scripts, and managed multiple Test Execution phases within projects, while performing needed manual testing.

● Responsible for manual testing of Part-Finders to drive sales in individual market segments leading to a significant increase in volume in those segments.

● Supervised testing of weekly bug fix builds, and testing of functional enhancements in the monthly builds. OTHER EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION

Borough of Sayreville Elected Councilman

Certified Scrum Master Certification, Scrum Alliance Certified Software Testing Certification (CSTE), Quality Assurance Institute Diploma in Computer Information Systems, DeVry Technical Institute, Woodbridge, NJ B.A., Communication Management, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 2

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