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ANKUSH CHALANA

ANKUSH CHALANA

Bangalore

Summary

Proactive Performance Engineer with extensive expertise in performance testing tools and industry best practices. A solution-focused collaborator skilled in advanced performance techniques, I bring 8+ years of experience in leveraging technology to monitor and manage the production and delivery of software products.

Technical skills include LoadRunner, JMeter, Performance Center, LRE, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, SQL querying, and various monitoring applications such as Opnet, Splunk, Sysdig, and Humio, possess strong domain knowledge in payments, banking, and e-commerce.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Performance Engineer

Visa INC
Bengaluru
10.2021 - Current
  • Entrusted with determining the capacity of multiple components involved in complex architecture and business logic, specifically for Risk and Payments related components, based on Dockerized containers and Kubernetes
  • Managed multiple feature changes, ensuring no performance degradation compared to baselines
  • Set up benchmarking for new products at the individual component level
  • Conducted incremental, steady load, stress, and endurance tests using LoadRunner Enterprise and JMeter 5.X to simulate realistic user activities
  • Tested Kafka consumers using Kafka Tool 2.13.x and JMeter to achieve required volume
  • Performed end-to-end performance testing to identify and address hotspots for application tuning
  • Primarily tested APIs for applications hosted on VMs, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes, utilizing proper load balancing
  • Pioneered throughput benchmarking and tuning for Kafka clusters, establishing organizational benchmarks
  • Created monitoring dashboards in Opera and Splunk, delivering system-level and application-level data
  • Utilized ZeroMQ for log analysis, stitching logs from different downstream applications to identify root causes of performance issues
  • Investigated Opnet for class/method-level component performance
  • Analyzed thread/heap dumps to detect contentions or irregular CPU/memory behavior
  • Conducted capacity evaluations to prepare for peak seasons, collaborating with the infrastructure team for hardware procurement
  • Implemented Shift Left initiatives by creating Jenkins pipelines for performance scenarios, aiding development teams in faster testing and result review
  • Developed an automated framework using Java Spring Boot for server restarts, health checks, and auto-healing
  • Currently working on AI tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to build a tool that assesses code quality from a performance perspective.

Software Engineer in Test

Mastercard
Pune
03.2021 - 10.2021
  • Requirement gathering, Risk Assessment, Impact Analysis, Performance test planning, Script development, Workload Scenario design, Test Execution, Result Analysis and providing detailed analysis & end of the test report for the entire testing phase
  • Facilitating CI/CD pipelines and developing the automation suits the regression projects
  • Accountable for implementing effective quality assurance processes and practices
  • Skilled in application monitoring using Grafana, Kibana, identifying performance bottlenecks, analyzing root causes, and suggesting tuning for performance issues.

Sr. Perf Test Analyst

Accenture
Pune
04.2020 - 03.2021
  • Performance Test Engineer lead for one of the leading banking clients in the UK
  • In-depth knowledge on Requirement gathering, Risk Assessment, Impact Analysis, Performance test planning, Script development, Workload Scenario design, Test Execution, Result Analysis and providing detailed analysis & end of the test report for entire testing phase
  • Got strong technical background in monitoring and load testing tools like LoadRunner, Performance Center, Jmeter, AppDynamic, Dynatrace, GC analysis, AWR Report, JMX Monitoring
  • Well versed in waterfall and agile framework
  • Experience with project management tools: Rally, JIRA, Confluence.

Performance Engineer

Yantriks
Bangalore
06.2019 - 03.2021
  • Analyzed business requirements and developed test cases based on use cases to evaluate functionalities
  • Accountable for implementing effective quality assurance processes and practices
  • Expert in creating Performance Test Scripts using tools such as HP LoadRunner, Apache JMeter
  • Experienced in Application Monitoring under load conditions and verified that the application meets the exit criteria.

Test Analyst

Congnizant
Kolkata
06.2019 - 03.2021
  • Actively participated in various stages of the Software Testing Life Cycle, including Functional and Non-Functional Requirement gathering, designing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Creation, and Execution of Test Scripts
  • Executed manual test cases and Performance test scripts using HP LoadRunner
  • Possess extensive knowledge in scripting on HP LoadRunner using different protocols like HTTP/HTML, SOAP, AJAX True-Client
  • Experienced in Application Monitoring under load conditions and verified that the application meets the exit criteria
  • Executed different types of Performance Tests - Load test, Stress test, Volume tests, and Endurance tests as per defined processes and guidelines to ensure accurate program output.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - ECE

Lovely Professional University
Jalandhar, PB
01.2016

Skills

  • Performance Engineering
  • Load Balancing
  • Application Performance Tuning
  • Troubleshooting abilities
  • JVM Architecture and tuning JVM Issues
  • Splunk
  • Capacity Planning
  • Thread and Heap dump Analysis
  • MySQL, ORACLE SQL
  • Jenkins/Continuous Integration
  • Java, Unix Shell
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • SQL Stress Testing
  • Grafana/Opera
  • Kafka
  • Code optimization
  • Performance Benchmarking

Timeline

Sr Performance Engineer

Visa INC
10.2021 - Current

Software Engineer in Test

Mastercard
03.2021 - 10.2021

Sr. Perf Test Analyst

Accenture
04.2020 - 03.2021

Performance Engineer

Yantriks
06.2019 - 03.2021

Test Analyst

Congnizant
06.2019 - 03.2021

Bachelor of Technology - ECE

Lovely Professional University

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