Performance Test Lead

Ravi Vadlamani

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Professional Summary

Performance Test Architect with over 18+ years of experience in optimizing end-to-end system performance across distributed applications. Proven expertise in load testing, capacity planning, profiling, and tuning JVM, databases, and web services. Adept at identifying bottlenecks and delivering scalable, high-performance solutions in Agile environments.

Key Skills

Performance Testing: JMeter, BlazeMeter, LoadRunner (Performance Center), K6,VSTS

Cloud & Monitoring: AWS, GCP, Dynatrace, DataDog, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus

Observability: ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch

Application Optimization: Java, JVM Tuning, GC Analysis

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS (EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch), GCP

CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, TeamCity, Maven, Git, GitHub, TeamForge, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines

API & Messaging: REST/SOAP API Testing (Postman, SoapUI), Enterprise Kafka event streaming and JMS

Test Management: ALM/Quality Center, qTest, JIRA, Rally

Professional Experience

Performance Test Lead – Southwest Airlines LTIMindtree Apr 2023 – Present

●Lead the Performance team and responsible for all Performance engg. activities and delivery for all major releases along with platform upgrades. (RDS upgrades, EKS upgrades)

●Collaborate with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to define non-functional requirements and performance SLAs, resolving performance bottlenecks

●Extensively involved fine tune enterprise kafka topics by ensuring high throughput, low latency, reliability, and scalability in production environments.

●Tuned Kubernetes pod resource limits/requests and autoscaling rules, cutting down cloud costs while maintaining SLA.

●Improved AWS Lambda cold-start times by optimizing deployment packages and provisioning concurrency settings.

●Benchmarked different EC2 instance types for a high-throughput ingestion service to identify optimal performance/cost balance.

●Continuous monitoring and optimizing all Performance environments

Performance Test Lead – Equifax LTIMindtree Jan 2022 – Mar 2023

●Developed and executed the performance test strategy for cloud-based credit systems, creating realistic workload models and conducting load, stress, and soak tests using Jmeter.

●Monitored application performance with Dynatrace and AppDynamics, analyzing results (response times, throughput, resource utilization) to identify and resolve bottlenecks in AWS/GCP environments.

Performance Test Lead – Global Payments Capgemini US Inc Sep 2016 – Jan 2022

●Oversaw Performance testing for high-volume payment processing systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and low latency in transaction platforms handling millions of daily transactions.

●Managed a distributed team of onshore and offshore performance test engineers, acting as the liaison for all performance quality matters.

●Developed reusable performance test frameworks and Java-based scripts using JMeter and Blazemeter, integrating tests into Jenkins CI pipelines for ongoing regression testing.

●Utilized advanced monitoring tools (DataDog, AppDynamics) and diagnostic techniques (heap dumps, thread dumps, GC analysis) to resolve performance issues.

●Generated detailed performance reports and capacity planning recommendations that informed successful, scalable product releases.

Earlier Experience

Performance and QA Test Engineer roles for prominent banking and Insurance institutions (AIG, Barclays, Citibank, ANZ Bank, ADIB, SAMBA,Saudi Hollandi Bank) from 2007 to 2016, covering Functional testing and Performance testing engagements.

Education

●MBA (Banking) – SMU University

●Bachelor of Computer Science – Andhra University

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