Performance Test Manager/Lead, Performancce Test Architect

Venkat Chella

Performance Test Architect

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkatanarayana-chella-4a34b1b0 SUMMARY

Highly skilled and experienced Performance Test Architect with over 18 years of expertise in Performance Testing and Engineering for Web, Microservices (API), and Cloud Environment projects. Proficient in communication, problem-solving, team management, and stakeholder interaction. Demonstrated ability in vendor and resource management, Proof of Concept, effort estimations, performance tuning, and analysis.

Well-versed in Site reliability Engineering (SRE), observability, resiliency, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and load test planning.

Proven track record of conducting load, stress, and endurance testing on microservices infrastructure, resulting in resolving performance bottlenecks and improving response times by 40% during peak traffic. Adept at establishing performance testing documentation frameworks, ensuring consistency across projects. Documentation Artifacts for Performance Testing Process, Methodologies, Results, and Ensure Compliance - adhere organization and Industry standards. Proficient in Agile methodologies (Scrum), SDLC, PTLC, Jira, Confluence, and reviewing test plans and scripts.

Developed CI/CD Pipelines, Grafana, Influx Db integration, shift-left approaches. Led teams of 30+ members and managed the Performance Testing Center of Excellence (COE).

Seeking a challenging role as a Performance Test Architect or Manager to utilize my skills and experience in optimizing performance and enhancing user experience.

Open to on-site opportunities in India.

SKILLS

Cloud and DevOps: AWS, Azure, DevOps, Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub, Influx DB, Jira, Confluence, CVS, Mongo DB, Oracle, SQL, Gamma, Unix, Linux Environments, Kubernetes, Docker Multi-Containers. Application Monitoring Tools: AppDynamics, Cloud Watch, Site Scope, Data Dog, Splunk, New Relic, Dynatrace Performance Testing Tools: LoadRunner, IBM RPT, Neo Load, JMeter, Gatling, K6; VSTS, Blaze Meter, Cloud Watch. Programming Languages: Knowledgeable in Java, C, Python, enabling effective test script development and automation with Banking, Insurance, Telecom, and Retail domains. Performance Testing Lifecycle: Comprehensive understanding of the performance testing lifecycle, phases, activities, and deliverables.

Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs): Skilled in NFR analysis, validation, and preparation of performance test strategies in collaboration with enterprise architects and development leads. Test Planning: Ability to create performance test plans aligned with project scopes and timelines for large-scale projects. Workload Modelling: Expertise in designing workloads and scenarios based on NFRs and production feedback. Monitoring Tools: Proficient with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, New Relic, Data Dog, Site scope, Splunk and Perfmon. Expert in various protocols including HTTPS, Web Services, Siebel, TCP/IP, Citrix, Ajax, and Tru-Client. Communication & Stakeholder Management: Excellent skills in conducting workshops, client meetings, and delivering presentations.

Agile & CI/CD: Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD processes to enhance performance testing effectiveness. Database Performance Monitoring: Familiar with AWR reports, CloudWatch Performance Insights, and batch performance testing.

Client-Side Profiling: Proficient in Java code profiling tools like JVisualVM and JProfiler; experienced in JVM monitoring and tuning.

Memory Management: GC, JVM architecture, clustering, load-balancing algorithms, and 3-tier architecture with hands-on experience in thread dump and heap dump analysis for identifying and fixing memory leaks, Postman, and IBM EMA. Business Development: Experience in business development activities to drive performance testing initiatives. EXPERIENCE

Quality Kiosk Technologies Pvt Ltd. Manager-Nov’2022 to July’2024. Oversaw end-to-end performance testing activities and provided support for multiple projects. Utilized microservices architecture to conduct comprehensive load, stress, and endurance testing. Managed a process re-engineering project to improve and consolidate end-to-end service processes; restructured communication flow among 10 departments and cut down paperwork by 75%.

ValueMomentum India Private Limited. Architect-Dec’2020 to Oct’ 2022. Participated in all business contract meetings and served as the primary point of contact for all performance testing activities. Prepared high-level performance test plans and test strategy documents; collaborated with development and application support teams to resolve performance issues. GSPANN (Whisk Software) India Private Limited Senior QA Lead Aug’2017 to May’2020. Participated in all business contract meetings and served as the primary point of contact for all performance testing activities. Prepared high-level performance test plans and test strategy documents; collaborated with development and application support teams to resolve performance issues. Unisys India Private Limited. Consultant-Feb'15 to Aug’2017. Defined performance testing SLAs and served as center of excellence for performance testing practice group. Collaborated with management teams to provide comprehensive updates on performance testing status and progress. Adi Datta Informatics-(Indonesia). Manager-Jan'14 to Dec-2014. Worked as a Performance Test Consultant to ensure compliance with SLAs and performance metrics. Participated in proposal submissions, effort estimations, and metrics measurements. Engaged in requirement gathering, POC submission, and creating DTPs for multiple projects.

Polaris India Private Limited. Manager Feb’2012 to Dec’13. Managed the entire performance testing engagements, maintained track of the status. Generated performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation & analysis, published comprehensive reports and received appropriate signoff. Developed Test Scenarios, Script development and Test Data Management. Accenture India Private Limited. Lead-June'10 to Jan’2012. Executed Benchmark, Load, Stress, Endurance performance load tests and other non-functional tests. Monitored application logs to determine system behavior. Addressed all technical issues. Analyzed results, created multiple reports, created dashboards.

IBM India Pvt Limited. Analyst jan’2006 to June’2010. Prepared Performance Test Scenarios and developed the Performance test scripts using IBM RPT tool. Executed Performance test scripts and Test reports like Throughput, CPU & Memory utilization, Response time by using RPT. EDUCATION

Master of Computer Applications, Osmania University - 2005 CERTIFICATIONS

NeoLoad Certified

Certified DevOps Project Manager - DevOps International Academy LANGUAGES

English: Full Professional Proficiency.

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