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Nikhileswar Duvvuru

Canada

Summary

  • Performance Engineer with 5 years of experience, primarily in performance testing using LoadRunner and JMeter, and monitoring using Dynatrace and Splunk.
  • Implemented quality engineering practices and sound experience in implementing innovative ideas to improve quality engineering at the engagement level, which were highly appreciated.
  • Experience in leading teams, managing cross-functional teams, and implementing several best practices with reduced risk and timely deliverables.
  • Experience in designing NFRs, Performance Scope documents, Test Strategies, Test Plans, and Test Summary documentation.
  • Experience in end-to-end performance testing and a shift-left approach in detecting early bottlenecks.
  • Experience in different types of testing, like Load, Stress, and Endurance testing, and different phases, like gathering NFRs, Workload Modeling, Scripting, Execution, Reporting, Analysis, and Monitoring.
  • Sound experience with LoadRunner, JMeter, and network capturing tools like Fiddler and Wireshark.
  • Exposure to APM tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, and AppDynamics, and servers like JBoss, Tomcat, etc.
  • Experience in tuning techniques, like SQL profiling, thread dump analysis, in resolving performance bottlenecks, and sound knowledge in chaos engineering.
  • Experience in Agile, Waterfall, and SAFe methodologies.
  • Experience in CI/CD, version control systems, and different tools in project management, like Jira and TFS.
  • Skilled in adapting to any advanced technology stacks and frameworks, and worked on many in-house tools.
  • Skillful in bottleneck management, risk management, and incident management.
  • Experience working in production, production-like, and lower environments.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Performance Engineer

IBM Canada
Halifax, Canada
07.2022 - Current
  • Worked for TD bank and currently working for PNC bank as Full stack Test Lead and Experience in leading cross functional teams.
  • Performance testing of UI, APIs, MQ, Citrix, and Kafka in enterprise applications using LoadRunner and JMeter.
  • Experience in scripting with Java and C, with LoadRunner and JMeter.
  • Experience in Splunk and Dynatrace monitoring, and enterprise application servers like JBoss, Tomcat, etc.
  • Implemented Performance engineering and tuning techniques like SQL tuning, Thread dump analysis, Database and Server capacity analysis, code optimization etc., and Chaos engineering (Executed Chaos engineering for customer facing applications).
  • Experience in gathering business flows, Workload modelling, Scripting, Execution, Reporting and Analysis.
  • Experience in solving technical challenges on Test Data management, Service Virtualization, for Performance Testing.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines to detect early bottlenecks in the given sprint.
  • Experience in Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow.
  • Managed communication between different stakeholders to gather information, resolve differences, and implement improvements.

Software Test Analyst

SR Intelligent Technologies India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, India
06.2018 - 03.2021
  • Projects: Bank Muscat (Transaction Banking) and Amlak International.
  • Performance testing using LoadRunner, as per non-functional requirements.
  • Good knowledge of Performance test planning and workload modeling.
  • Designing scripts, execution, and reporting using LoadRunner and JMeter.
  • Executed load, stress, smoke, and endurance tests, and reported the analysis of the tests.
  • Interaction with various technical teams, non-technical teams, and different stakeholders.
  • Worked at the client location (Bank Muscat, Oman) on testing the performance of the corporate internet banking application and supported tuning performance issues.
  • Worked on scripting using Fiddler requests by capturing network traffic.
  • Logging bottlenecks and assigning them to the respective teams in TFS.
  • Analyzing thread dumps post each execution and AWR reports and monitoring JBoss, Tomcat servers.
  • Automation testing of finance-based web applications, as per functional requirements, and reporting defects in the defect tracking tool.
  • Good experience with GIT, Bitbucket, and Jenkins.
  • I worked in Agile environments and have a good knowledge of multi-tier architectures and Enterprise applications.

Education

Post-Graduate Diploma - Software Engineering - Artificial Intelligence

Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology
Scarborough, ON
03.2022

Skills

  • LoadRunner
  • JMeter
  • Fiddler
  • Wireshark
  • Dynatrace
  • New Relic
  • Splunk
  • JBoss
  • Tomcat
  • C
  • Jenkins
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • TFS
  • Selenium
  • Cucumber
  • TestNG
  • Karate
  • Appium
  • Postman
  • Java
  • Python
  • SQL

Certification

  • ISTQB Foundational level
  • Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • IBM Agile Explorer

Timeline

Performance Engineer

IBM Canada
07.2022 - Current

Software Test Analyst

SR Intelligent Technologies India Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 03.2021

Post-Graduate Diploma - Software Engineering - Artificial Intelligence

Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology

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