NAGASWETHA KALLAGUNTA
PEFORMANCE ENGINEER/MANUAL TESTING
San Francisco, California 316-***-**** ***********.**@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/naga-swetha-kallagunta-15426042/
Performance Test Analyst with over 10 years of experience and a good track record of requirements gathering, workload modelling, test plan, scripting, execution, analysis to identify the bottlenecks and system tuning. A quick learner who can swiftly adapt to new challenges and able to work independently with good technical and analytical skills. Exceptional problem solving and sound decision-making capabilities and a dynamic team player who is consistently motivated toward success.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Well experienced in Performance testing using HP Load Runner 11.0 and 12.02, HP Performance Center and Jmeter.
●Certified in HP Load Runner 12.x
●Data Management & Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Finsim, App dynamics, New Relic, Kibana, Grafana.
●Web Services tools: SOAP UI, Postman
●Execution of project from inception to delivery
●Excellent track record for meeting deadlines and submitting deliverables on time.
●Project Management: Scrum framework, Agile methodology and traditional waterfall
●Configuration Management: Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Performance Engineer Oct 2021 - Present
Employer : Brilliant Infotech Inc.
Client : DirecTV
●Testing the performance of the DIRECTV Head-end applications using the Apache JMeter tool and suggesting the recommendations for the improvement of performance.
●Worked on developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Case Documents based on business requirements.
●Responsible for Creating Test Scripts using JMeter with Web HTTP/HTML protocol. Involved in performing Functional and Regression testing, Staging/live testing of the application.
●Used Splunk monitoring tool to download the raw SCTE 35 triggers and then use an in house tool to convert the raw triggers to understandable format. Then analyze the triggers with respect to DAI insertion whether the DAI adbreaks duration and time are aligned with triggers or not.
●Used AppDynamics for monitoring the load test metrics such as Memory, CPU consumption, Response time, error rate, TPS.
●Participated in Capacity Planning for the Application under Test based on the projected Production estimates.
Performance Test Engineer Sep 2019 – Apr 2021
Employer : Pinnacle Technical Resources
Client : DirecTV
●Analyzing Performance Bottlenecks using AppDynamics, Oracle Enterprise Manager.
●Creating tickets in JIRA in case of any server or application issues and maintenance of the testing status in Spirateam on daily basis.
●Performed Regression Testing on applications using JMeter by creating test scripts with assertions to validate whether the application is returning the expected results or not.
●Responsible for estimating the concurrent users for the load test based on the Transactions/sec that is seen in production.
●Performed functional and regression testing in each sprint and UAT for each release to Production.
Performance Test Engineer Mar 2019 – Aug 2019
Employer : Wipro Limited
Client : DirecTV
Testing the performance of Head-end applications using the Apache JMeter tool and suggesting the recommendations for the improvement of performance.
Worked on developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Case Documents based on business requirements.
Responsible for Creating Test Scripts using JMeter with Web HTTP/HTML protocol.
Involved in performing Functional and Regression testing, Staging/live testing of the application.
Enterprise Platforms Engineering May 2018 – Mar 2019
Employer : Idc Technologies Inc.
Client : DirecTV
Participated in Capacity Planning for the Application under Test based on the projected Production estimates.
Analyzing Performance Bottlenecks using AppDynamics, Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Creating tickets in JIRA in case of any server or application issues and maintenance of the testing status in Spira team on daily basis. Performed Regression Testing on applications using JMeter by creating test scripts with assertions to validate whether the application is returning the expected results or not.
Responsible for estimating the concurrent users for the load test based on the Transactions/sec that is seen in production.
Performed functional and regression testing in each sprint and UAT for each release to Production
Test Engineer Nov 2014 – Feb 2016
Employer : Infosys Limited
Client : Westpac
●Prepared Test Plan, Workload Model and extensively worked on VuGen using HTTP/HTML protocol and MQ Protocol, Performance Center, Analysis and Reporting.
●Conducting Load Tests till 1000 vuser load in Performance Center and monitored Message Queuing in UNIX environment.
●Developing scripts using HTTP/SOAP protocol by taking the XMLs from functional team and converting it into LR supporting format.
●Executed Load and Endurance tests using Performance Center and performed Splunk monitoring for the same.
●Preparing Daily status report, Interim Reporting and Final Test Completion Report and sending them through the clients.
●Scheduled Daily Status calls and participated in weekly client calls to show the progress and discuss issues.
Test Engineer May 2011 - Nov 2014
Employer : Tech Mahindra Limited
Clients : Cisco & GE
●Identification of the key critical transactions and involved in preparing the Test Plans, developing scripts.
●Performed load test, smoke test and spike tests using LoadRunner. Identifying the bottlenecks in the application.
●Analyzing the test results to find the scalability and response time of the identified transactions and preparing the final executive summary report at the end.
●Participated in Daily Status meetings with Onsite counterpart and provided required information.
●Test matrix and Test cases authoring by analyzing the specifications from the User Requirements Document, Functional Specification Document and Business Requirement Documents and involved in the meetings of test case reviews.
●Performed database Validations using Toad for oracle 10g. Uploading and Executing test cases, Raising and Closing Defects in QC.
●Follow up on Critical Issues and Showstoppers with the Project Team and maintain a smooth flow in the Execution.
EDUCATION
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY – Computer Science & Engineering 2011
Aurora’s Technological & Research Institute – Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.
Hyderabad, India
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
HP Suite (LoadRunner 11/12.02, HP Performance Center 11.0) Apache JMeter 3.2 C Scripting SOAP UI Postman Toad BENTHIC SQL Developer Oracle 11g SQuirreL AppDynamics New Relic JIRA Confluence bitbucket Charles proxy Wireshark Splunk HP ALM Quality Center 10.0 Windows 7 and XP Windows 10 Linux MS Internet Explorer MS Edge Mozilla Firefox Chrome putty WinSCP MobaXterm Kibana Grafana OpenVideo CloudOps (Kubernetes)