Nicholas Zastrow
Software QA Analyst and Web Developer passionate about quality, usability, and clean code. Over 2.5 years of QA experience at Sagenverse, blending technical skill with creative design.
QA Work
Exploratory and regression testing across Unity and React Native builds. Test planning, defect documentation, Monday board workflows, and cross-team verification for multiple releases.
School Projects
Web Projects (Live Demos)
A seven-page, TTRPG-themed website with shared navigation, custom styling, images, and embedded content, built as the final project for an HTML & CSS course.
A restaurant-style order form that calculates the subtotal based on selected items, applies a tip percentage, and returns the grand total using client-side JavaScript.
A fully structured multi-page site (4+ pages) implementing shared navigation, Modernizr integration, math functions, decision logic, and form validation, all passing W3C validation.
C# Case Studies
A Windows Forms application that calculates item subtotals, sales tax, optional discounts, and overall order totals, with a clear form workflow and basic validation.
A pizza ordering interface that collects customer info, toggles delivery fields, manages crust, size, toppings, and pricing rules, and displays a formatted order summary.
Space reserved for another Windows Forms application or desktop utility that builds on data binding, validation, or multi-form workflows.
Java Case Studies
A console-based pizza builder that uses ingredient classes, pricing logic, and a custom test harness to validate multiple pizza combinations.
Builds formatted loan summaries with borrower information, defaults for missing values, and a helper to calculate loan end dates, plus a small test harness for multiple scenarios.
Space reserved for another OOP or algorithms-focused Java assignment, such as a console utility, data-structure demo, or small CLI tool.
SQL Databases & PHP / MySQL
A combined case study covering a family-reunion relational database (schema design, queries) and a PHP/MySQL midterm project simulating account balances and customer views.