Performance Test tools: HP ALM Loadrunner, Apache Jmeter, Blazemeter, Locust and Stress Stimulus
Totally with 14 years of IT Experience and Diversified Background:
Pavan Magal is an accomplished Sr Technical Lead for Performance Testing and engineering having 10 years of experience in Performance Testing & Engineering, Testing Management & Jmeter Selenium Webdriver Automation Testing. He is having experience in Designing Performance Engineering and Testing Solutions for Presales RFP teams, Test Designing, Work Load Modelling, White Box Performance Engineering, Chaos Engineering, Deep Diagnostics with Application Performance Monitoring, Test Scenario Design, reporting and Bottleneck analysis on OnPremise and Cloud Service Applications.
He has diverse experience in all levels of STLC and types of testing that include Load, Stress, and Endurance Tests with Transactional based Capacity Planning. Micro services Performance Testing on Message Queues, Events, and Message Bus on Frameworks like Camel, JMS and Amazon SQS.
He has worked as Performance Test Engineer with sound knowledge of norms for Software Testing and Design & Development with good Technical, Problem solving, Analytical and Interpersonal skills
He has also been involved in performance testing support activities for Testing Practice and has been involved in continuous performance test framework development using best practices.
Sep 2015 to till date. Performance Test Architect / Lead
PennyMac Loan Services, LLC (SSE QA).
Total Applications Tested : 30+ across SSE QA
PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, is an American residential mortgage company headquartered in Westlake Village, California and is the principal mortgage-banking subsidiary of PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. As a top national mortgage lender, PennyMac Loan Services, LLC (“PennyMac”) is committed to providing its customers with a range of innovative mortgage solutions from product called Encompass, Broker Direct Lender Portal, Mac Portal, LO portal etc.
In a QA testing team of 50+, As a Performance Architect, Pavan M is involved in -
· Analyzing and understanding the Requirement Specifications for Release.
· Has played a pivotal role in Performance Test Tool Evaluation and Stack APM presentation prior project kickoff.
· Requirement Gathering and analysis of NFRs and Signoff from Project Stakeholders.
· Development of Performance Test Strategy with Performance Engineering.
· Prepare Test Tool Infrastructure on AWS EC2 cloud
· Design and Development of Test Scripts and Test Data
· Performance Test Execution, Result analysis and Reporting of Load, Scalability and Benchmarking.
· Status Reporting with QA Head and Signoff.
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Bottlenecks Detected and Reported:
RDS Scaling and Performance Issues
UI performance issues pointing to Framework, Rendering, DOM Loading for Microservices and SPA.
AWS EC2 Elasticity failure based on rule defined.
Messages Processing Delays.
SQL SP Hotspots
Volume Testing SLA Failures. High Response Time Failures.
CPU Spikes for longer duration.
Deadlocks and Heap Utilization Issues
SQS, DynamoDB Performance issues
Total Clients: PepsiCo, P&O ferries, SREI, Ernst & Young, CrawFord etc.
As a Performance Test Architect Responsible for :
Broadridge Financial (Capital Market US)– US Giant in ASset Management,Capital Markets and Banking, Consumer finance and Insurance, Retail Banking etc
Project : Global Post Trade Management System and GLOSS
As a Performance Test Lead was responsible for,
Thomson UK and Ireland is one of the Top Travel Holiday Services and Holiday planners in UK and Ireland . TUI offers Cruise, AIR and other Holiday packages.
As a Performance Tester in United Kingdom, Responsible for:
Customers : Walmart and Starwood Hotels and Resorts
Top US Giant Retail and Hotel chain
As a performance Tester, Pavan was responsible for :
Project Name : Mpower – L3 Communications
Domain : SAP HR&Payroll
Duration : 02-Feb-2014 to 01-May-2014
Project Details : Load Testing on Load Balancer and Benchmarking SAP R/3 Enterprise Portal.
Tools and Technology : HP Loadrunner 11.0.4, Dynatrace, HP Sitescope.
User Load Profile Tested : 250 Vusers
Roles and Responsibilities
Ø Preparation of Performance Test Scripts
Ø Prepared Operation Profile (Load Profile), Test Plan
Ø Design Test Data, Debug Run, Load Test 2 Iterations per cycle for 3 cycle
Ø Benchmark Tests, Loadbalancer Performance Testing
Ø Presenting Performance Test Report, cycle completion Report to Management
Project Name : Nokia Account (SSO)
Domain : Telecom
Project Details : Nokia Account SSO portal for Widgets etc
Tools and Technology : HP Loadrunner 11.0.3, Wily Introscope.
User Load Profile Tested : 5500 Vusers
Location : Helsinki Finland
Roles and Responsibilities
Ø Managed Team of 3 Performance Testers offshore.
Ø Involved in Agile Testing Life Cyle model.
Ø Prepared Performance Test Scripts, Test Plan, Strategy Plan.
Ø Involved in End to End Load Testing, Scalability Tests and Failover Testing.
Ø Load Balancing Tests and Extensive Performance Monitoring
Ø Network Profiling, SQL profiling
Ø Prepared Test Reports
Ø Weekly Status Reports and backlog Reports
Ø Performance Test Engagement Completion Reports.
Bottleneck : Load balancer issues, Failover, SQL Performance
Project VI
Project Name : Target Online Pledging (TOPS).
Domain : Retail
Project Details : Employee online Pledging System
Tools and Technology : Neoload 4.0, Vantage Analyser
User Load Profile Tested : 1000 Vusers
Roles and Responsibilities
Customer : Oracle Center of Excellence for Performance Testing and Engineering
Project Name : Siebel CRM on Demand Product
Domain : Siebel CRM
Tools and Technology : LoadRunner Version 9.5, JProfiler, HP Sitescope.
User Load Profile Tested : 260 Vusers
Roles and Responsibilities
Involved in V&V Product Performance Engineering and Testing Lifecycle
Involved in Capturing Performance Requirements, Meetings with Business Analysts and Project Stakeholders.
Involved in preparing Load Test Operation Profile
CPU Profiling, Memory Profiling, SQL Tracing
Load Testing, Scalability, Reliability Test
Performance Reporting and Suggestions
Customer : Bharathi Nursing home - Hospital and Healthcare
As a Test Engineer, Responsible for
Customer : Kelkoo.com (France) Ecommerce Giant, Currently acquired by yahoo.com
As a Software Test Engineer, Responsible for :-
Testing scripts, Performance Engineering, Jmeter Automation,HP ALM Loadrunner, Apache Jmeter, Blazemeter, Locust and Stress Stimulus
undefinedPerformance Test tools: HP ALM Loadrunner, Apache Jmeter, Blazemeter, Locust and Stress Stimulus
Performance monitoring tools: New Relic, Dynatrace, Nmon, HP Diagnostics, Zabbix
Performance Engineering: UI profiling with Lighthouse Chrome, Google Page speed insights SQL Profiling, Message Queue Throughput Profiling and Testing, Code Profiling with Yourkit
Cloud Services Performance: AWS EC2, Google Cloud Platform
Distributed Testing: Docker, AWS EC2 and S3
Continuous Integration: Jenkins with AWS EC2
Data Analytics: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana InfluxDB, Grafana
Log Management and Analytics: InfluxDB, Log stash, Grafana, Elasticsearch and Splunk
Bengaluru based , Married with a Kid
Jmeter Coding Exposure to Beanshell, Java and Selenium Webdriver Javascript
Python Coding on Locust for High level API and UI using Locust
HPM -18 Loadrunner 8.1 Certification in 2007/2008.
Sonata Software Certified Unified Engineering Professional(Full Stack)