Performance Testing Team Lead
Resume:
Krishikanya Shrikant Gavali (Shinde) ************@*****.***
Professional Experience
Profile A seasoned performance testing and aspiring performance engineer with 13.5+ years of experience in the banking, finance domain.
Responsibility wise exhibited an onshore coordinator for 2 years (in England, United Kingdom) as team lead and consultant/individual contributor roles. On the performance testing front, evangelized the Shift Left practices. Holds solid grip on the testing life cycle activities: Drafting Performance Test Proposals, Execute POCs, Estimation, Non-Functional Requirements gathering, workload modelling, Planning, Script Development, Data Building, Test Execution and Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting performance metrics etc Holds technical forte in shell scripting on the UNIX platform (automation and troubleshooting). Proficient in Performance testing using HP/Microfocus Load Runner and HP/Microfocus Performance Centre, Neoload, Rational Performance Tester and JMeter tools. Relatively have a good experience with web (http/html), web service, remote desktop protocol (RDP), True Client-Web LR protocols.
Played a key role in providing effective solutions to performance issues. Involved in identifying performance bottlenecks by analysing GC, heap dump and thread dump. Strong Application and Database debugging experience. Good in AWR report analysis. Proficient in performance testing of web applications, middleware and ETL (batch) systems. Unique work experience in SAP application Performance testing. Along with technical role handled non-technical responsibilities of team i.e. performed L1 role which includes resources leave management, shift allowance allowances, goal & setting tracking and Annual appraisal of resources.
Key Skills Performance Testing tool - HP Load Runner 9.1,11.5,12.01,12.02 Microfocus 12.60 HP Performance Centre 11.5,12.02 Microfocus, NeoLoad 5.4, Performance Centre 12.60, JMeter 5.2, RPT 9.2.1, 10.0.2.1
Performance Monitoring Tools - Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, CA Wily Introscope, HP SiteScope, Fiddler 4.2, Perceiver, NMON, Perfmon, Putty, Secure CRT, HP Diagnostics, Wireshark, Perfmon, fiddler
SAP system monitoring using STAD, ST03, ST04, SRTUTIL, ST12(traces), SOAMANAGER Test Management tools - HP Quality Centre(QC) 10.1, HP Application Lifecycle Management(ALM), Jira
Other Tools -
Database Oracle 11g, DB2, My SQL 5.0.
Database access tool - Oracle Enterprise Manager, Toad 10.0, SQL developer, SQL Server Management Studio
Another tool/ module SAP DM, SAP DS, SAP BW, Control – M, FileZilla, Secure FX Programming Languages – Unix, C, C++, SQL
Proven track record of grasping new concepts, applications, technologies and working environment
Key Courses and Training Certified SAFe DevOps Practitioner (SDP) certification-IBM Internal Certification program Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner (Foundation level) Employment History
Quantumsoft Solutions Inc
Designation: QA Engineer
Duration: Nov 2024 – till date
• Performance requirement gathering for changes going to release
• Preparation of Performance DTP, Estimation - walkthrough, review and final sign-off from Stakeholders
• Update/Create new scripts, tune WLM as per production log, create scenarios, Execute runs
• Performance test analysis and share results with key findings and recommendations
• Created dashboards in Splunk for UI and backend services calls monitoring for test duration
Deutsche India Private Limited
Designation: Assistant Vice President
Duration: Sept 2022 – July 2023
• 2023: Awarded with Best Performer of the Month award Roles and Responsibilities:
• Performance assessment for new Change Requests and document the scope, efforts and timeline if applicable
• Requirement gathering for the changes going into release and document the performance scope
• Present QBR(Quarter Board Review) Jira structure board to Tribe leadership on Performance team’s objectives planned for the release and get sign-off on estimates
• Established Performance testing process for Batch runs executing under System Data Management tribe
• Identified the process to gather performance stats for Production batch runs
• Encouraged the tracking of performance testing tasks, status, efforts, ETAs through Jira
• For web-based applications– Update/create new scripts, tune WLM as per production log, create scenarios, Execute runs and analyse the results using Microfocus PC tool
• In Splunk, drill-down the high responding calls, identify performance bottlenecks and share the details
• Created multiple dashboards in Splunk for UAT, Pre-Prod and Prod env to gather Performance stats and details of failures
• Comparison of Performance results with previous release test results and Production results.
• Created excel macros to generate performance comparison report for Batch executions
• AWR reports generation and analysis. Monitor and gather Performance stats for DB servers in Oracle Enterprise Mngt for the test duration
• Raise Jira as defect in case of increase in RT or RT is not matching with expected SLAs and take the follow-up with responsible team to resolve issue
• Share Performance results with key findings and recommendations, in case of any risk, raise Jira.
• Retrospection of Lesson learnt in each sprint and work with responsible teams In implementing solution
IBM India Private Limited
Designation:
Post promotion worked as Application Architect (7B- Band) At the time of joining worked as Advisory Technical Services Specialist (7A- Band) Duration: Mar 2016- Aug 2022
Worked with Barclays, Nationwide Building Society and Premier Farnell clients. For 2 years worked as Onshore coordinator in UK
• 2017: Awarded with Nationwide Pride award for excellent work done
• 2016 to 2019: Awarded with multiple Manager choice awards in IBM
• 2021: Promoted to Application Architect from Advisory Technical Services Specialist Roles and Responsibilities
• Worked on Performance assessment for various Projects - Provide go/no-go for Performance testing, Document the scope and impacted applications, conduct POC, Provide high level PT estimates etc
• Preparation of Performance DTP, Estimation - walkthrough, review and final sign-off from Stakeholders
• Work load modelling as per performance requirements, wherever available analysed the Production logs and designed WLM
• Scripting using different performance tools like LR, IBM RPT and JMeter etc. Whenever needed written logic to handle dynamics of scripting
• Co-ordination with Data providing team for the Performance test data needs. In few assignments, automated the test data generation process.
• Scenario creation, executions, results gathering and analysis using different Performance testing tools
• For one of the assignment learnt SAP application performance testing and successfully delivered many releases
• Executed the batch schedule from control-m and gather performance stats from SAP Enterprise solutions. Using different tcodes monitored the performance and analysed performance issues
• During onsite tenure attended project workshops, impact assessment, design walkthrough meetings to understand the changes, scope for the Project/ Release
• Co-ordinate with offshore team for handover of tasks
• Created blueprint for Performance environment and provided in-depth information in-terms of sizing.
• Learnt Unix shell scripting and created utility to capture secs level details from the Production logs generated for webservice calls
• Performance monitoring and issues analysis using APM tools like Dynatrace, AppD etc
• Identification of performance issues by analysing heap and thread dumps
• Creation of dashboards in AppD for capturing performance stats for servers under scope
• Preparation of Performance closure report with testing details, observations and provide Recommendations- walkthrough, review and final sign-off from Stakeholders
• Mentor Junior teammate for any technical help.
• Provided Presentation on the Performance deliveries and achievement by offshore team during client visit
Wipro Technology Solutions Private limited, India
Designation: Senior Test Engineer (B2 band)
Duration: April 2014 – Mar 2016
Worked for the Citi Bank, US account. Performed Performance Test lead role.
• 2014: Awarded with ‘Feather In My Cap’ award
Roles and Responsibilities
• Main role was to lead performance team of 14. On daily basis plan, assign the tasks and share the status with Stakeholders.
• Mentor the team for any technical help
• Complex scripting, written the logic wherever needed
• Creation of scenarios, co-ordinate with tools support team for any issues with PC
• Monitoring and analysis of high responding transactions using CA Wily
• Analyzed server level performance using perceiver.
• AWR report analysis for Oracle DB servers
• Preparation and review of business sign off reports.
• Allocate efforts on monthly basis in Wipro's management tool eCube to track the resources efforts and generation of PDMR.
• Performed L1 role which includes leave mngt and shift allocation for team, annual appraisal of resources.
Cognizant Technology Solutions, India Private Limited Designation: Associate – Projects
Duration: Oct 2009 – Oct 2013
Worked for Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) UK and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) UK accounts. Performed Performance Test lead and Programmer Analyst roles.
• 2011: Awarded by Best Performer of the Quarter within Cognizant’s PTCoE
• 2012: Awarded by Best Performer of the Quarter within Cognizant’s PTCoE
• 2013: Pillar of Excellence award for the contribution in Financial Conduct Authority account.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Understanding of application under test and NFT requirement gathering
• Capturing Performance critical business flows, preparation of traversal flow document and work load model
• Preparation of Performance Master test plan and Detail Test Plan
• Co-ordination with stakeholders for review and approval of Performance documents
• Development of load runner scripts
• Test data preparation. Wherever required automated the test data creation process
• Creation of Performance scenarios, execution and analysis of LR results
• Execution of batch jobs and gather the performance stats
• Application and database server monitoring using UNIX monitoring command like SAR etc or using Perfmon, NMON
• Analysis of results (Query plan, UNIX monitoring reports, logs etc)
• Responsible for performance DSR and WSR
• Involve in Defect management process
• Preparation of closure document and co-ordinate with project stakeholders for final sign off
• Handled the issues and challenges skillfully faced during project assignment Scholastics
Degree with Branch College/University Year of Passing Percentage Bachelor of Engineering
[Electronics and
Telecommunication]
Walchand Institute of Technology,
Solapur 2008 79.14%
12th
Dayanand College of Art and Science
Solapur 2004 87.50 %
10th
Dayanand Kashinath Asawa High School,
Solapur 2002 87.06%
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