Arul Selvan Martin

· Manage a team of 20+ performance engineers, providing guidance, mentoring, and performance evaluations.

· Defined team objectives, set performance goals, and facilitated professional development opportunities.

· Conducted thorough load and stress testing to simulate peak holiday traffic in production, ensuring applications could handle increased loads without performance degradation.

· Implemented Speedscale to Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring continuous performance validation for every code change.

· Introduced Chaos engineering practice to identify and mitigate potential failure points within the system to improve systems resiliency. Developed strategies to improve system robustness and fault tolerance based on chaos engineering findings.

· Work closely with development teams to ensure seamless integration of Redis to the enterprise applications and resolve issues related to cache performance, data consistency and failover scenarios. Conducted regular performance tuning and optimization to maintain high levels of system reliability and efficiency.

· Implemented Real User Monitoring (RUM) and analyze real user monitoring to gather performance date from actual users in real time. Conduct regular performance audits using tools like Google Lighthouse, Webpage Test, and browser developer tools to identify and address performance issues.

• Led a team of over 100 performance engineers, delivering consulting and strategic solutions to major global clients in the retail, manufacturing, logistics, energy & utility, and travel industries
• Manage the CoE’s budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources to performance engineering initiatives
• Establish performance engineering best practices, standards, and guidelines across the organization
• Provide training and development opportunities to enhance the team’s skills and knowledge in performance engineering
• Develop contingency plans to address potential performance issues and ensure system reliability
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to incorporate best practices into the CoE
• Responsible for revenue growth, project delivery, holiday readiness testing and transformation initiatives.

• Led the Load Testing division of the Quality Assurance Services group with the team of over 10 performance engineers. Led a Performance team for SAP implementation Release 1 (HR Module) & Release2 (OTC, CRM, PTP and PTF) and SAP BI reporting applications.

• Team Mentorship: Provide guidance and support to team members, helping them grow their skills and expertise.

• Domain Expertise: Serve as the HP Tools domain expert, sharing knowledge and best practices with the team and organization.

• Requirement Analysis: Collaborate with various groups to identify and understand performance and functional automation requirements and goals.

• Test Strategy Development: Develop test strategies based on system requirements and architecture to ensure comprehensive performance testing.

• Performance Test Implementation: Design and execute performance tests using HP LoadRunner, including the programming of LoadRunner scripts.

• Resource Monitoring: Utilize SiteScope to monitor system resources and identify performance bottlenecks during testing.

• Result Analysis and Reporting: Analyze test results, report findings to the project team, and provide actionable recommendations for performance improvements.

Tools and Technologies: Utilized HP Performance Center 8.1, VUGen 8.1 (Web, Web service), Sitescope 8.5, HP Quality Center 9.2 Enterprise Edition, and VSS 6.0 for performance testing and monitoring.

Application Testing: Conducted load and stress testing on various applications including Personal Line Non-Qualified (PLNQ), TABS billing expansion, Mercury ITG, and Identity Manager.

Requirement Gathering: Collected performance testing requirements from project teams to ensure alignment with business goals and technical specifications.

Performance Goals and Strategy: Defined performance goals and developed test strategies based on system requirements and architecture.

Test Planning and Execution: Created detailed test plans and scripts and executed performance tests using LoadRunner 8.1.

Monitoring Configuration: Configured SiteScope to monitor performance counters during test execution for real-time insights.

Result Analysis and Reporting: Analyzed test results, reported findings to the project team, and provided recommendations for performance improvements as needed.

Tools and Technologies: Utilized LoadRunner 8.0 (Web, COM) for performance testing.

Team Leadership: Led a team of two, successfully delivering performance testing services to the client.

Mentorship and Strategy: Mentored team members and determined test strategies based on system requirements and architecture. Created and implemented performance tests using HP LoadRunner, including programming LoadRunner scripts.

Performance Analysis: Analyzed test results and reported findings to the project team, providing recommendations for performance improvements as necessary.

Application Testing: Conducted load and stress testing on STeP Consumer Direct web applications.

Test Planning and Execution: Developed test plans, created scripts, and executed performance tests using LoadRunner 8.1.

Client Reporting: Analyzed test results, reported findings to the client, and provided recommendations for performance improvements as needed.

· Lead a team of performance engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support

· Plan and design performance test scenarios, including load, stress, endurance, and capacity testing.

· Analyze system performance metrics, such as response time, throughput, and resource utilization.

· Diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues in performance and pre-production environments.

· Create detailed performance test reports, highlighting key findings and recommendations.

· Develop performance test plans, including load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests.

· Interpret test results to identify performance bottlenecks, system limitations, and areas for improvement.

· Establish performance baselines and compare system performance against

· Develop performance test scripts and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests.

· Interpret test results to identify performance bottlenecks, system limitations, and areas for improvement.