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Dhanraj Telu

Summary

Versatile SDET Engineer doing Performance testing and validating cloud-based, on-premise and hybrid solutions. Incorporates data from all available sources to create holistic images of product and software performance. Plan and lead Performance testing including estimation, designing, developing, execution, identifying test environment requirements, and preparing large data sets for distributed and high-throughput performance testing

• Over 11 years of Experience working as Performance QA and Automation Engineer.
• Expertise in Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test Strategy, Work Load Design, Test case design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management & Configuration Management.
• Experience in Performance testing large complex projects in web-based and microservices architecture
• Proficiency in performance testing tools such as JMeter, IxLoad, Spirent Avalanche.
• Experience in HTTP proxy testing.
• Planning and leading Performance testing including estimation, designing, developing, execution, identifying test environment requirements, and preparing large data sets for distributed and high-throughput performance testing.
• Execute Benchmark, load, stress, endurance, and other non-functional tests. Monitor application logs to determine system behavior. Address all technical issues; facilitate the resolution and necessarily follow up with Development and other cross-functional departments.
• Experience in building custom tools or simulators for performance testing.
• Solid expertise in Protocol testing, performance, and improving the stability of the product
• Responsible for owning a feature end to end - starting from testing, automation, script error-free run-in regression, and customer issues handling around that
• Working closely with cross-functional teams at various stages of product development to meet the feature deliverables in a release
• Ensuring that systems and software under test meet product performance requirement
• Experience and knowledge of TCP, HTTP/S, HTTP2, and SMTP protocols and REST Services.
• familiarity with Agile methodologies and best practices and possess excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Have a thorough understanding of Unix/Linux systems, distributed systems, and Internet principles

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff SDET, Bangalore, IN

Netskope India Pvt Ltd
11.2022 - Current


  • Performed preventative maintenance to keep tools and equipment functional.
  • Wrote and executed tests and diagnostics designed to validate products and software applications.
  • Reviewed design specifications to validate product designs and support testability and verification.
  • Executed regression test procedures and automated test suites to shorten diagnostic timeframes.
  • Understand the product/feature requirement, review the design and write test plans that suits the customer use cases
  • Execute Benchmark, load, stress, endurance and other non-functional tests. Monitor application logs to determine system behavior. Address all technical issues; facilitate the resolution and necessarily follow up with Development and other cross-functional departments.
  • Responsible to own a feature end to end - starting from testing, automation, script error free run-in regression and customer issues handling around that
  • Thorough understanding of the product features and building the ability to debug the customer issues and suggest/implement the workarounds if applicable
  • Need to perform different types of testing that includes functional, system, performance and scale tests
  • Need to create the distributed complex test setups in various cloud platforms and hypervisors based on the requirement
  • Work closely with cross functional teams at various stages of product development to meet the feature deliverables in a release
  • Provided input to team lead regarding areas for process and procedural improvement.

Performance Engineer Senior-II

Akamai Technilogies India Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 11.2022
  • Recommending and carrying out measurement-based initiatives to identify opportunities to improve the availability, reliability, and performance of Akamai's mapping system
  • Conducted load, stress and endurance tests using Load tools to simulate realistic user activities.
  • Developed and deployed test load scripts with Python.
  • Gathered and defined business and functional requirements for each program.
  • Reviewed scalability, performance and load balancing of each application.
  • Led root cause analyses to identify and address problems in industrial production.
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
  • Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
  • Developed long-term strategies for different business segments.
  • Worked with business analysts and different subject matter experts to gather and define requirements, identify constraints and plan scopes.

Software Developer V B

MicroFocus
06.2017 - 06.2018
  • Working closely with developers to create test strategy, white/black box test cases Web Application Automation using Selenium.
  • Carrying out Load/Performance Tests for every release.
  • Executing tests on a large-scale distributed test network.
  • Maintain/enhance/develop test tools and automation frameworks.
  • Benchmarking various server metrics, across releases/hardware, to ensure quality and high performance.
  • Investigating and analyzing root causes of technical issues / performance bottlenecks.
  • Verifying and validating the server using white-box/black-box/functional/stress testing techniques.
  • Participated in software field testing to verify performance of developed projects.
  • Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.

Product Development Engineer II - QA Automation

Verizon Data Service India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 06.2017


  • Load test execution and work with Product Management and Development determining the number of virtual users to be used during the performance test.
  • Analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Latency, Garbage Collection and DB connections to verify the performance of the applications.
  • Analyze the network connections between the servers
  • Supervise script recording, ensuring correctness and quality with an understanding of monitoring requirements based on test objectives, test execution tasks. Coordinate test window and lab utilization.
  • Performance testing post-test tasks: Gather various reports and statistics from monitoring groups, packaging and reporting results to project teams. Assist in explanation of results and other post-test initiatives.
  • Generate performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis. Publish results and receive appropriate signoff. Prepare detail status reports, and monitoring of all defects and issues.
  • Monitoring tasks: Responsible for defining, setting up and maintaining appropriate monitoring scripts to monitor Systems using the following tools and approaches.
  • Developing Automation and Maintaining for the products.
  • Integrating the Automation suite with CI/CD Pipeline

Software Engineer

Alten Calsoft Labs
01.2012 - 04.2015
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Integrated third-party tools and components into applications.
  • Tested methodology with writing and execution of test plans, debugging and testing scripts and tools.
  • Performance and scalability testing.
  • Worked on Features like HTTP, SSL Offload
    • Functionality testing for server load balancing with all possibilities on HTTP and HTTPS.
    • Designing complex integrated testbeds simulating customer environments and designing customer solution testbeds.
  • Investigate defects and perform root cause analysis.
  • Deep packet Inspection.
  • Performance testing using Spirent Avalanche tool and Ixia IxLoad

Education

Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Kakinada, India
05.2011

Skills

  • Performance/Load Testing
  • Functional Testing
  • using Traffic generators Jmeter, IxLoad, Spirent Avalanche
  • Cloud Security Testing, SASE, SSE
  • Http Proxy testing
  • Experience in Web protocols like HTTP/S, H2, DNS
  • Work experience in Zero Trust Environment
  • Automation using Python Selenium, Pytest
  • Project Management
  • Deep Packet Inspection

Timeline

Staff SDET, Bangalore, IN

Netskope India Pvt Ltd
11.2022 - Current

Performance Engineer Senior-II

Akamai Technilogies India Pvt Ltd
06.2018 - 11.2022

Software Developer V B

MicroFocus
06.2017 - 06.2018

Product Development Engineer II - QA Automation

Verizon Data Service India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 06.2017

Software Engineer

Alten Calsoft Labs
01.2012 - 04.2015

Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Dhanraj Telu