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KAVITA AGARWAL

KAVITA AGARWAL

Bengaluru

Summary

Performance Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professional with 13 years of experience in leading technical teams, performance testing, chaos engineering, and cloud solutions. Proficient in AWS services, CI/CD pipelines, and observability solutions. Adept at managing complex IT environments, driving resilience, and supporting DevOps and agile transformations. Proven success in collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance system reliability and achieve performance benchmarks.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Performance Testing Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Bengaluru
10.2018 - Current
  • Working as a Performance testing SME/Lead and supported 10+ critical applications hosted on various platforms such as VSI, Private Cloud, and Public Cloud (AWS).
  • Proven ability to design and implement Performance Testing Strategies, including Performance Test Plans, Workload Modeling, Benchmarking, and Reporting for Release Management and Go/No-Go decisions.
  • Perform automated load/stress/volume/spike tests and identify multiple bottlenecks with respect to throughput, complex queries, latency by analyzing Unix logs, heap dumps, thread dumps, and DB reports.
  • Hands-on experience with Chaos Engineering and Resiliency Testing, using tools like Chaos Monkey and Gremlin, conducting game days to evaluate application resilience.
  • Collaborated with development teams and product owners to define and optimize SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs, driving the adoption of DevOps reliability practices, including CI/CD pipelines with comprehensive functional, performance, and security testing.
  • Well-versed in emerging DevOps methods, including agile/scrum, continuous integration, and test-driven development.
  • Utilized monitoring, alerts, dashboards, and management tools to ensure application availability, reliability, and performance.
  • Developed performance testing strategies for multiple AWS cloud migration projects, streamlining architecture, and identifying bottlenecks. Proficient in AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry) and implemented observability and monitoring solutions using AWS CloudWatch and Datadog.

Performance Testing Manager

Morgan Stanley
01.2018 - 10.2018
  • Worked as a performance testing manager for the wealth management business and led a team of 8 members.
  • Worked towards transforming the existing PE solution to the Agile/DevOps framework by using JMeter, BlazeMeter, and TeamCity.
  • Responsible for preparing and delivering a 180-application performance testing regression suite, which can be used as a PE regression suite across Morgan Stanley Wealth Management business.
  • Active member of the Environment Enablement Team, which primarily focuses on PE data preparation, Splunk dashboard/utilities creation for monitoring, troubleshooting, and profiling PE issues

Senior Performance Engineer

Ernst Young
04.2015 - 12.2017
  • Worked on all insurance-based Guidewire suits - Policy Center, Claim Center, Billing Center, Contact manager and other legacy systems like thunderhead, payment gateways etc
  • Lead Test scope, Test planning/preparation, Script preparation, Test Execution & Defect management, and Test closure as part of system integration performance testing
  • Created Test performance requirement document, managing E2E Manual and performance testing of the tool

Performance Engineer

Accenture Service Private Limited
11.2011 - 07.2014
  • I had worked with 2 clients: British Telecom and Waste Management as a performance tester and worked on ~10+ applications build on different technologies like PeopleSoft, Siebel, Java, .NET, and Salesforce.
  • Handled a complex test environment involving different technologies like XML, synchronous and asynchronous communication, stubs, B2B, ESB, Siebel/CRM system, Amdocs Autofix, billing system, CSS, web logic, and middleware components like JMS and MQ.
  • I was chosen to transition from WIPRO when the project was ramped out of Wipro and got the contract with Accenture.

Education

BTech. (ECE) -

Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna
01.2011

Skills

  • Performance Testing Tools: LoadRunner, JMeter, Blazemeter, Postman, SoapUI
  • Performance Engineering: Workload Modeling, Benchmarking, Throughput and Latency Analysis, Automated Load/Stress/Volume/Spike Testing
  • Observability & Monitoring Solutions: AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana
  • Chaos Engineering: Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, Resiliency Testing
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry), Private Cloud, VSI
  • CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub, TeamCity, CI/CD Pipeline Implementation, Agile/Scrum, Test-Driven Development
  • Scripting & Automation: Java, Basic Python, Shell scripting for Unix/DB report analysis (Heap Dumps, Thread Dumps)
  • Database Performance: SQL Query Optimization, Database Tuning, AWR Analysis, DB Report Analysis

Certification

  • AWS Solution Architect Associate, 2024
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation Certification, 2023
  • Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Professional - GCCEPro, 2023
  • AWS Coud Partitioner Certified, 2022
  • Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner - GCCEP, 2023
  • Guidewire Claim center 8.0 & Guidewire Platform 8.0 Fundamentals certified, 2015

Websites

Accomplishments

  • JPMC Women in Spotlight, Tech Savvy Award, Star Award
  • EY Excellence in Team Management & Spot Awards
  • Accenture Maximizes Business Impact and Value Creation Certificate

Affiliations

  • Active member of multiple communities like Cloud , TechGear, Ignite, TIF - SRE Bootcamp, and the Women Leadership Program.
  • Active member of Katalyst NGO, mentoring engineering students.
  • Associated with JPMC-FFG program to support LaunchGirls NGO initiative

Timeline

Performance Testing Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
10.2018 - Current

Performance Testing Manager

Morgan Stanley
01.2018 - 10.2018

Senior Performance Engineer

Ernst Young
04.2015 - 12.2017

Performance Engineer

Accenture Service Private Limited
11.2011 - 07.2014

BTech. (ECE) -

Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna

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