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ESWARI SEKAR

Chennai

Summary

Seasoned Senior Associate with 8.5 years of extensive experience in performance and Functional and API testing, specializing in ensuring the quality, reliability, and scalability of software applications. Demonstrated proficiency in designing, executing, and analyzing performance tests using industry-leading tools such as JMeter and BlazeMeter. Skilled in leading manual testing efforts, including test planning, test case design, and test execution, to deliver high-quality software solutions. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, providing leadership and guidance, and driving continuous improvement in testing processes.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Engineer - Quality Assurance

GAVS Technologies
Chennai
02.2024 - Current

Description:

Frontier Airlines is a major American ultra low-cost airline headquartered in Denver, Colorado. It operates flights to over 120 destinations in the United States, Caribbean, Mexico and Central America.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Participate in session to analyse business requirement and functional specifications

Studied high level design documents and flow charts and interacted with business analysts and functional managers to clarify issues upon business requirement.

Conducted POC on existing Frontier legacy application using Jmeter and shared the scripts and results with manager.

Automated around 60 API services using Jmeter on Middleware API Frontier NCP application and successfully applied 100 user load on it.

Worked on around 10k test data preparation for parametrizing the scripts.

Created scripts using Jmeter and Blazemeter for existing Legacy frontier application.

Attended all the DSM meetings with managers and updated the performance testing status.

Worked with Manual API Testing team due to project requirement and updated status to the leads.

Senior Associate CTS (Performance Tester)

Client-Morgan Stanley
Chennai
08.2022 - 01.2024

Description:Morgan Stanley is a leading US financial industry with web based stock trading system*Trade Financial , a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, offers an electronic trading platform to trade financial assets including common stocks, preferred stocks, future contracts, options, mutual funds and fixed-income investment.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Studied high level design documents and flow charts and interacted with business analysts and functional managers to clarify issues upon business requirement
  • Reporting daily test execution status to the team/weekly status to the test manager
  • Provided support in performance testing using JMeter task includes developing test plan, test script and test reports
  • Prepare Test summary report, documenting all the test results & observations and share with stakeholders for sign off
  • Develop scenario-based testing for the JMeter scripts
  • Create, schedule and run the scenarios using JMeter and necessary graphs
  • Extensively worked on JMeter to create Thread Groups and test web applications for various loads on key business scenarios.
  • Integrated Dynatrace for real-time performance monitoring during load tests, analyzing key metrics such as response time, throughput, and error rates.
  • Configured InfluxDB to store and visualize performance metrics, enabling trend analysis and identification of performance trends over time.
  • Collaborated with development and operations teams to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
  • Utilized New Relic and BlazeMeter for continuous monitoring and analysis of application performance
  • Design and implement realistic user scenarios, load profiles, and test scripts
  • Run SQL queries to retrieve data from backend system.
  • Developed and executed performance test plans and scripts using JMeter, incorporating Fiddler for detailed traffic analysis and debugging.
  • Participated in performance testing strategy and planning sessions, providing input and recommendations based on best practices and industry standards.

Associate CTS (QA Lead)

Client-TeleNet
10.2016 - 08.2022

Project Description

Worked as a QA Lead in Telenet group, which is the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium. Its business comprises the provision of analogy and digital cable television, fixed and mobile telephone services.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Lead and manage a team of manual testers in planning, executing, and reporting on software testing activities for multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Develop and implement test strategies, plans, and test cases based on project requirements and user stories.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including development, product management, and customer support, to ensure alignment on testing objectives and priorities.
  • Conduct test case reviews and provide guidance and mentorship to team members on testing best practices and techniques.
  • Perform hands-on testing as needed, including functional, regression, integration, and acceptance testing.
  • Track and report on test progress, test coverage, defects, and other key testing metrics to project stakeholders.
  • Identify and escalate testing issues and risks to project leadership, recommending solutions and mitigation strategies.
  • Participate in release planning and deployment activities, ensuring the readiness and stability of software releases.

Programmer Analyst CTS ( Manual Tester)

Client-Northern Trust Bank
05.2015 - 11.2016

Description:

Worked in Regression testing with Northern Bank which is considered to be one of the largest banking institutions in the Unites states and one of the oldest banks in continuous operation.

Role & Responsibilities:

● Key member of the NT Regression Team.

● Analysis on production defects and sharing scenarios to the Development team which provides insight of impacted areas and radar points.

● Track the defects based on SLA and Closure time taken by QA.

● Developed regression test suite using HP ALM.

● Conducted RCA meetings to identify the exact root cause and mitigation plan.

● Involved in the knowledge transition to the team internally.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Communication Engineering from S.A Engineering College with 7.65 CGPA. -

Skills

Primary skills: Performance, Functional, Integration, API, Regression & Exploratory, Sanity, Smoke & UI testing

Testing Tools: JIRA, MYSQL, Postman, Putty, Userprofileviewer, JMeter,Fiddler, Blaze meter,InfluxDB&Grafana

Testing Methodology: Agile & Waterfall

Load Generation: User scenario design, load profiles, test scripting

Monitoring and Analysis: Dynatrace

Scripting and Automation: Java, JMeter scripting, Blaze Meter Taurus scripts

Troubleshooting: Performance issue identification, debugging, profiling

Scalability Testing: Assessing application scalability under increased load

Reporting and Documentation: Comprehensive performance test reports, documentation

Collaboration: Cross-functional team communication, stakeholder engagement

Accomplishments

Awards & Recognition:

  • Have won the Certificate of Appreciation for winning Best Project of the year Award -2015 from BFS
  • Appreciated with SPOT award for ongoing extra miles to achieve the desired business results of October 2017
  • Appreciated with extra mile and silver award for working independently in 2022
  • Certificate of Excellence for completing successful migration project from Morgan Stanley in 2023.

Certification

Cognizant Certified Professional in :

Performance Testing assessment

  • Load Runner - Knowledge Based Assessments
  • Performance Monitoring - Knowledge Based Assessment
  • Fiddler and Soap UI - Knowledge Based Assessment
  • JMeter- Knowledge Based Assessments

Timeline

Senior Engineer - Quality Assurance

GAVS Technologies
02.2024 - Current

Senior Associate CTS (Performance Tester)

Client-Morgan Stanley
08.2022 - 01.2024

Associate CTS (QA Lead)

Client-TeleNet
10.2016 - 08.2022

Programmer Analyst CTS ( Manual Tester)

Client-Northern Trust Bank
05.2015 - 11.2016

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Communication Engineering from S.A Engineering College with 7.65 CGPA. -

ESWARI SEKAR