PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Vikas Manchala has over 9 years of Testing experience with Web based and client/server application projects involving end - to-end functionality testing.
• Having experience on Performance Testing and Automation Testing. Testing methodologies like Integration Testing, System testing including Performance Testing, Regression testing for client/server, Web Based applications. Expertise in analysis of requirements, preparing the Test Cases, Test reports, Metrics, Test Plan and Estimations. In-depth knowledge on Quality and testing process.Have good experience in using VSTS2012/10, LR 12.5 and jmeter 3.0 for Performance Testing.
• He has successfully executed projects for Banking/Retail/Manufacturing/Mortgage clients like CapitalOne, SolutionStar and Microsoft with different roles & Responsibilities mentioned below
• Implementing CI / CD with Jenkins and developing test suites with Jmeter
• Prepare performance test planfor applications which are in scope of for releases.
• Develop workload model to simulate the virtual users during loadtest.
• Prepare estimations for script development and execution.
• Create web test scripts for scenarios identified for performance testing, using VSTS/ LR in protocols like REST, SOAP, http/html, Java vuser, RDP etc..
• Created UI scripts in jmeter with chromedriver and tested the web applications for tuning the page rendering times.
• Used SOAPUI to automate the DGW services automation
• Created Junit samplers in jmeter to test high throughput mainframe DB like profile.
• Created Jmeter scripts with beanshell samplers with Groovy to test DB Gateway services
• Experience on Java vuser protocol to test profile DB.
• Designing a load test based on workload model.
• Conduct load test and analyze the test results for bottlenecks analysis.
• Responsible to log bug/issues in tracker and track thesame till the closure. Also responsible for tracking issues logged by team members.
• Attending status calls to update the performance testing status to Client.
• Designed goal based test to perform stress testing the application.
• Modifying test scripts ineach release whenever a scenario / code changes.
• Responsible for Test RIG setup and make sure Controller & Agents works properly.
• Verified performance environment by comparing with production environment to make sure load simulated on production like environment
• Attend scrum and PI planning meetings from Line of Business managers to obtain foresight for upcoming projects in pipeline
• Allocate task to offshore resources, review project artifacts (test strategy, test completion report, test results etc)
• Attend project meetings and daily stand up calls to provide updates on regular project activities. Updating project status in Kanban board
• Experience in Agile and Kanban methodologies and practices
• Monitoring with HP Diagnostics and Sitescope. Worked on Performance Center 12.1 executing load, stress and endurance test for different projects
• Involved in bottleneck analysis by using tools like perfview and Appinsights.
• Involved in automation using ruby for profile backend system
• Creation of mocks using HPSV and parasoft
• Deployment of APIs using udeploy
• Worked on AWS applications performance testing using Jmeter
• Efficient in troubleshooting Web Sphere and Web logic application servers related to performance tuning.
• Working on Windows and Linux environments including AIX

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: - Windows (server 2008, 2012), Linux, AIX

Performance Testing Tools: - LR, VSTS 2012/ 2013, Jmeter

Automation Testing Tools: - VSTS 2012/2013, RubyMine

Monitoring Tools: - HP Diagnostics, Sitescope, perfview, AppInsights, Grafana, New Relic, ELK, splunk.

Service Virtualization: Parasoft, HPSEV, Mountebank.

Build Tools: Jenkins, Maven

Development Tools: - Eclipse, RubyMine, Putty, Subversion

Deployment Tools: - udeploy

Languages: - C#,Java,C,Ruby

Cloud: - AWS, Docker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Performance Test Engineer

Confidential- Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Prepare performance test planfor applications which are in scope of for releases.
• Develop workload model to simulate the virtual users during loadtest.
• Prepare estimations for script development and execution.
• Create web/API scripts for scenarios identified for performance testing, using LR 12.1 And Jmeter in protocols like REST, SOAP, http/html, Java vuser, RDP etc…
• Designing a load test based on workload model.
• Conduct load test and analyze the test results for bottlenecks analysis..
• Designed goal based test to perform stress testing the Web services.
• Experience on Java vuser protocol to test profile DB.
• Used SOAPUI to automate the DGW services automation
• Created Junit samplers in jmeter to test high throughput mainframe DB like profile.
• Created Jmeter scripts with beanshell samplers with Groovy to test DB Gateway services
• Modifying test scripts ineach release whenever a scenario / code changes.
• Attend scrum and PI planning meetings from Line of Business managers to obtain foresight for upcoming projects in pipeline
• Allocate task to offshore resources, review project artifacts (test strategy, test completion report, test results etc)
• Attend project meetings and daily stand up calls to provide updates on regular project activities. Updating project status in Kanban board
• Experience in Agile and Kanban methodologies and practices
• Monitoring with HP Diagnostics and Sitescope. Worked on Performance Center 12.1 executing load, stress and endurance test for different projects
• Involved in automation using ruby for profile backend system
• Creation of mocks using HPSV and Parasoft.
• Worked on AWS applications performance testing using Jmeter
• Implementing CI / CD with Jenkins and developing test suites with Jmeter
• Created Junit samplers in jmeter to test high throughput mainframe DB like profile
• Created UI scripts in jmeter with chromedriver and tested the web applications using docker.

Performance Engineer

Confidential - Lewisville, TX

Responsibilities:

• Prepare performance test planfor applications which are in scope of for releases.
• Develop workload model to simulate the virtual users during loadtest.
• Prepare estimations for script development and execution.
• Create web test scripts for scenarios identified for performance testing, using VSTS2013
• Assign task to team members during test script preparation & execution phase.
• Review test scripts written by team members to make sure all the coding is done as per the standards.
• Designing a load test based on workload model.
• Conduct load test and analyze the test results for bottlenecks analysis..
• Designed goal based test to perform stress testing the HomeSearch application.
• Modifying test scripts ineach release whenever a scenario / code changes.
• Responsible for Test RIG setup and make sure Controller & Agents works properly.
• Verified performance environment by comparing with production environment to make sure load simulated on production like environment

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepare performance test planfor applications which are in scope of for releases.
• Develop workload model to simulate the virtual users during loadtest.
• Prepare estimations for script development and execution.
• Create web test scripts for scenarios identified for performance testing, using VSTS2012
• Assign task to team members during test script preparation & execution phase.
• Review test scripts written by team members to make sure all the coding is done as per the standards.
• Designing a load test based on workload model.
• Conduct load test and analyze the test results for bottlenecks analysis.
• Responsible to log bug/issues in tracker and track thesame till the closure. Also responsible for tracking issues logged by team members.
• Attending status calls to update the performance testing status to Client.
• Designed goal based test to perform stress testing the NGVL application.
• Modifying test scripts ineach release whenever a scenario / code changes.
• Responsible for Test RIG setup and make sure Controller & Agents works properly.
• Verified performance environment by comparing with production environment to make sure load simulated on production like environment
• Involved in bottleneck analysis using tools like perfview

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepare performance test plan for applications which are in scope of PVP release.
• Develop workload model to simulate the virtual users during load test.
• Prepare estimations for script development and execution.
• Create web test scripts for scenarios identified for performance testing, using VSTS 2008 and 2010
• Assign task to team members during test script preparation & execution phase.
• Review test scripts written by team members to make sure all the coding is done as per the standards.
• Designing a load test based on workload model.
• Deploying PVP applications in performance environment by using Octopus tool and conduct dry runs to see the application stability.
• Involved in Data Preparation once new build available and take the back-ups for each subsequent runs.
• Conduct load test and report the test results to performance Analyst & Developers for bottlenecks analysis.
• Responsible to log bug/issues in tracker and track the same till the closure. Also responsible for tracking issues logged by team members.
• Attending status calls to update the performance testing status to Client.
• Designed goal based test to perform stress testing the PMC application.
• Modifying test scripts in each release whenever a scenario / code changes.
• Responsiblefor Test RIG setup and make sure Controller & Agents works properly.
• Verified performance environment by comparing with production environment to make sure load simulated on production like environment
• Worked on VSTS up gradation from RTM to SP1 by modifying existing web tests which were coded on VSTS 2008 RTM to work properly on VSTS 2008 SP1.