Chandrashekar Hoogar

Apt **,**** River Plaza Drive Sacramento, CA 916-***-**** adz5us@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chandrashekar-hoogar Summary

12+ years of IT experience including SAP testing and support and 7+ years of experience in Performance testing of various Web Applications using Load runner, Jmeter and SAP Performance testing of all modules.

Experience in handling Waterfall and Agile methodologies of software testing.

Have solid experience in engaging and driving various projects towards delivery and also into Team Management and resource distribution based on work allocation required for successful project completion.

Hands-on experience in engaging with the Clients to understand the requirement in order to drive the complete project towards successful delivery.

Ability to understand the application functionality and isolate the Non-Functional requirements.

Experience in identification of the test scenarios to validate the performance of key business functions and certifying the NFR requirements.

Expertise in understanding the requirements and creation of test cases out of Business Requirement Documents and Functional Requirement Documents.

Have experience with Requirement Gathering, Understanding NFR's, Developing Test Strategy, Workload Modelling and Capacity Planning.

Hands-on experience on Testing Tools such as HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center, JMeter, SOAP UI.

Experience in working with various protocols – Web (HTTP/HTML), Ajax True Client, Web-services, Java over HTTP, Java Vuser, SAP-GUI, SAP-Web and MQ scripts, Batch job performance testing.

Strong engagement into Test Planning and Test Strategy Design based on the requirements to meet deadlines.

Expertise in Test Script creation, WLM, Test Scenario Design, Test Execution Practices, Test Results analysis and observation.

Have engagements into various types of Performance Testing practices – Benchmark, Load, Stress, Endurance, Spike, Scalability.

Hands-on experience in working with technologies like Java, Siebel, SAP and .Net enterprise applications.

Experience in performance monitoring tools like Perfmon, nmon, SiteScope, Wily Introscope, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk and HP Performance Manager, New Relic.

Knowledge on bottleneck identification using APM and also analyzing Thread dumps and Heap dumps.

Have good experience in concepts of JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and Garbage Collection.

Experience on SQL-based back-end testing of application servers.

Oracle SQL tuning.

Have experience in Performance Monitoring using SPLUNK, Dynatrace, App Dynamics.

Experience with CICD concepts and implementation along with hands-on experience in CICD frameworks involving Jenkins-JMeter-Influxdb-Grafana Integration and Jenkins-LoadRunner for different client engagements.

Highly motivated, dedicated, love to work in fast-paced challenging endeavors as strong team player with excellent analytical and communication skills.

Ability to liaise with multiple groups – delivery, DBA's, developers, environment, ops etc. – to collaboratively troubleshoot performance issues, and resolve bottlenecks.

Actively participated in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance.

Expertise in Problem solving & defect Tracking Reports using Defect Tracking Tools (JIRA, Quality Center).

Experience in bottleneck analysis and root cause analysis using deep-down approach through Dynatrace and AppDynamics.

Understanding of the various performance issues and engaging with the Development Team for quicker resolution.

Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills with ability to work in a team as well as individually in fast paced, dynamic team environment.

Visa Status and Employer

H1B visa Valid till 30 September 2025 and Current employer is Infomatics Inc. CORE COMPETENCIES

Web Application Testing Performance Test life cycle LoadRunner, Jmeter, Neoload, Load ninja, Locust, SOAP UI, Postman, Ready API API Testing Storm runner, Blazemeter, Performance center, Jenkins, Azure load testing App dynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk, Fiddler Gatling Jenkins Agile/Scrum Methodologies Change Management Continuous Process Improvement Azure load testing Chandrashekar Hoogar 916-***-**** adz5us@r.postjobfree.com Page 2/5 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Conagra Brands, 08/2022 – Present

Performance Test Lead

Involved in gathering business requirements, studying the application architecture and collecting the information from developers and business.

Created Vusers scripts that contain tasks performed by each Vuser, tasks performed by Vusers as a whole and tasks measured as transactions.

Daily stand-up status and weekly client status along with serving as the liaison between the internal consulting group and our internal clients.

Extensively worked in SAP GUI and SAP Web applications, Web Services Protocols in Load Runner.

Extensive experience with testing Web Services Applications API testing using Postman and SOAP UI.

Executed test and monitor system performance SiteScope, LoadRunner Controller.

Enhanced Vusers scripts by introducing the timer blocks, by Parameterizing user Id's to run the script for multiple users.

Used Dynatrace to monitor the windows.

Created different monitors to check for performance bottlenecks in the web server, database services and application server using Wily.

Extensive knowledge in Automation framework design and implementation using Selenium tool.

Used Selenium web driver with Jmeter integration for creating performance testing scripts.

Web Interface Protocols are initially determined before generating the test scripts and later the scripts are generated.

Used Load Runner, to minimize testing cycles, optimize performance, and accelerate deployment. Responsible for setting runtime settings in LoadRunner.

Analyzed the results of the Load test by using LoadRunner Analysis tool to identify bottlenecks.

Oracle SQL tuning and SAP Performance monitoring of servers. GE HealthCare Client: 06/2021 – 07/2022

Senior Performance and Automation Test Engineer

Daily stand-up status and weekly client status along with serving as the liaison between the internal consulting group and our internal clients.

Facilitated and contributed to process improvement workshops moving the performance testing activity closer to a Performance Testing COE.

Test strategy development and elicitation of performance goals with my functional testing and client-side business counterparts.

Performance Testing infrastructure set-up including MOFW, LOFW, stand-alone controller, MI Listener in a hybrid virtualized and physical hardware configuration inclusive of a private cloud hosted off-site.

Test Planning inclusive of budget and schedule.

Designated client contacts for status and remediation of issues pertaining to schedule and budget.

Drove the adoption, planning and execution of performance testing for the web-based and services related application components.

Jmeter performance script development, correlation rules, parameterization, content checks, and custom functions in C.

All of the necessary content check rule creation, in-script correlations, analysis of the data returned by the server for appropriate web reg find string identification and unique data constraints, heavy parameterization including the use of an external database for unique key data requirements.

The determination of recording options and LoadRunner script development issue resolution through product discovery and the use of vendor white/red papers and release notes.

Distillation of functional requirements into functional pathway selection for LR script development and determining what the captured transactions should be.

Responsible for 100% of the LoadRunner script development including HTTP/HTML, SAP Web, and SAP GUI for my assigned projects.

Built the test scenarios and performed all the necessary testing and monitoring.

Coordinated the efforts to build database snapshots and refresh the environment between tests, pushing the client towards automating those functions.

Involved in Automation Infrastructure Development using Selenium.

Delivered comprehensive results presentations and recommendations to the stakeholders via excel exports ultimately residing in PowerPoint.

Used monitoring tools like App dynamics on Microsoft azure portal on frequent basis.

Responded to customer inquiries and resolved complaints to establish trust and increase satisfaction. Chandrashekar Hoogar 916-***-**** adz5us@r.postjobfree.com Page 3/5

Participated in Testing documentation reviews and walkthroughs, including those for Test plans, Test cases, Test strategies, Test Summary Reports.

Used Junit and testing Framework as a test runner with Selenium.

Used Selenium to expand test scenarios to catch more bugs and improve quality.

Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running a test on a regular basis automatically.

Analyzed the project documentation to ensure a thorough understanding of the requirements including, but not limited to user stories, technical specifications, design documents, use cases, flow charts, etc.

Worked autonomously and acts as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or coordinating a technical area.

Hands-on experience in working with Applications hosted in Microsoft Azure and AWS platform.

Experience in creation of pipelines with CICD framework using Jenkins-JMeter-Influxdb-Grafana.

Experienced in performing load test on Restful services using Gatling framework.

Experience in creation of pipelines with CICD framework using Jenkins-Jmeter. ALDI Client, German 12/2018 – 05/2021

Senior Performance and Automation Tester

Determine performance requirements and goals based on application and architecture.

Have experience with Requirement Gathering, Understanding NFRs, Developing Test Strategy, Workload Modelling and Capacity Planning.

Generated Test scripts and executed tests using LoadRunner.

Responsible for performance testing using LoadRunner and Performance Center with different protocol.

Provide guidelines to Test engineers to configure test scenarios in Controller or Performance Center based on the WLM.

Implementing Gatling for Performance testing using different frameworks such as Activator and Taurus.

Performed LoadRunner Script design including all stages of script development with emphasis on correlation, parameterization, and significant error handling C-coding providing exhaustive error coverage in VuGen.

Extensively worked on JMeter to create Thread Groups and test Web Application for various loads on key business Scenarios.

Created few Scala scripts in Gatling only for restful web services as part of Micro services initiation.

Experience with usage of SQL queries for validating the database.

Used LR Controller for load on a server, group of servers, network, or component to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types.

Creating POCs for open source tools such as Locust, Gatling and etc. that fits performance modeling and monitoring, performance testing and tuning, and capacity planning.

Established Load Testing Standards including platform requirements of CPU, Memory, and Disk Space on LoadRunner Controller, LoadRunner Generators.

Designed the performance test scenarios for baseline test, load test, stress test and scalability test.

Involved in test data preparation for the Parameterized values in the scripts for multiple scenarios.

Experienced in using LoadRunner to check the source of performance bottlenecks, network or client delays, input and output delays.

Involved on Performance Monitoring and analyzed the Response time, Memory leaks, Hits/sec and Throughput graphs.

Engaged in Test Results analysis and finding bottlenecks and provide recommendation to clients on Performance Tuning.

Experience in Dashboard creation using SPLUNK.

Have experience in Performance Monitoring using SPLUNK, Dynatrace.

Experience in creation of small utilities, using Shell scripting, PowerShell, and macros, to bypass manual tasks involving Data Creation, Result Analysis, and Report Preparation.

Oracle SQL tuning and SAP Performance monitoring of servers.

Responsible for Identifying and Selecting Test Cases for Automation using Selenium.

Execution of Test Automation Strategy.

Selection of appropriate Selenium Tools and Selenium Test Environment Configuration

Responsibility of Creating, Organizing and Managing Test Automation Resources

Selenium Environment setup and Creation of Automation Test Plan

Responsible of Creating, Enhancing, Debugging and Executing Test Cases

Carrying out Regression Testing, along with Resolution of different Technical Issues. Chandrashekar Hoogar 916-***-**** adz5us@r.postjobfree.com Page 4/5 Big IT Solutions (Accenture), 03/2016 – 11/2018

Performance Test Engineer

Worked closely with business team, application team and identified their requirements and objective for performance testing.

Involved in creating Performance Test Plans including test objectives, environment requirement, test data, types of testing, and real time production like scenarios.

Developed scripts and scenarios for testing new and enhanced web-based products using LoadRunner and JMeter.

Performed the monitoring performance of the application and database servers during the test run using tools like AppDynamics and SiteScope.

Analysis of Server logs and in-depth analysis using tools like Dynatrace.

Have experience in Performance Monitoring using Dynatrace and App Dynamics.

Designed the LoadRunner scenarios to meet the User load requirements close to production environment.

Extensively used Wily Introscope to analyses the system resources bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU utilization, Response time, TPS as well as problematic application and DB components.

Executed Load Test, Stress Test, Endurance Test, Spike Test.

Tested Web Application using Jmeter for API testing using SOAP/REST-Postman tool for various loads on key business scenarios.

Simulated heavy load using JMeter Master-Slave model to test applications strength and to analyses overall Performance under different load types.

Created Reports/Graphs using JMeter and LoadRunner.

Added various monitoring parameters (CPU, Memory) to the LoadRunner controller for monitoring, also using SiteScope for monitoring database and application servers.

Prepared and reviewed final Performance test reports.

Analyzed the Application and Database server resource utilization for any bottlenecks. Big IT Solutions (Robert Bosch), 05/2014 – 02/2016 Quality Test Associate and performance tester.

Identifying business critical transactions to be executed and evaluated during the tests.

Define the Scope for Performance testing.

Involved in Preparing Test Plan and strategy document.

Prepare Test schedule. Validate Application environment.

Conducted the Baseline test with 1 user.

Preparation of Test scripts using Jmeter for Load Test and Stress Testing.

Extensive experience in testing web application with J2ee, JAVA.

Execution of Load Test & monitoring the impact of load test on various servers.

Preparation of Report for the Load Test giving the performance metrics for the Application.

Analysis of Report to identify issues / bottlenecks within the application or Hardware.

Correlate results summary for multiple test runs and prepare Result Summary document. Dexler Information Solutions, Bangalore 10/2012 – 04/2013 SAP Consultant

Worked as a SME to support online students globally and Assisting the Students in going through the Slides as well as the Books page wise.

Configuration settings to be set right for students were the setting changes have been made.

Demo capturing of the business flow scripts as per client requirement and Creating FAQs on a monthly basis.

To provide solutions to the e-learning team.

Alstom Projects India Limited 11/2007 – 07/2011

SAP Implementation Support and marketing and proposal engineer

Enhanced customer and user experiences through continuous optimization of products or features.

Helped stakeholders understand technical and systems views of Product or Service.

Consulted with customers on technical issues to achieve optimal solutions.

Leveraged engineering and product management expertise to drive future technical project direction.

Providing inputs to the technical team to effect development changes. Chandrashekar Hoogar 916-***-**** adz5us@r.postjobfree.com Page 5/5

Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project

Read, review and understand customer RFQ/Tender Documents.

Study the feasibility of the equipment’s and discuss with the manufacturing engineer, supply management and project departments and decide whether to bid/no bid.

Study detailed scope of equipment and also take confirmation of manufacturing hours and necessary lead-time required from planning department.

Collate all vendor quotations (technical and commercial) from supply management.

Conduct risk review meeting through Risk log file (RLF) in system of all firm enquiries. EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RC College of Management, Bangalore India; Master of Business Administration (Information Technology and Marketing) PDA College of Engineering, Kalburgi, India; Bachelor of Engineering SAP SD Certified, New Relic Monitoring tool Fundamental certified and Jmeter Pro certified Technical Summary: HTML, JavaScript; MySQL; Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, ; HP ALM, JIRA, WinRunner, UFT, SAP FICO, SD, MM, SAP Solution Manager, SQL Server Mgt Studio (2012/2017), MS Visual Studio2010/13/15/17, MS VSTS, MS Office 2010/13/16, Agile/Scrum, RESTFul/SOAP UI, TDD, CI/CD, Ui Path, Automation Anywhere, Selenium.

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