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Parag Gade

BENGALURU

Summary

A dedicated and results-focused Performance Tester with more than 5 years of experience in the E-Learning, CRM and E-Commerce domains. Expert in designing, executing, and analyzing performance tests for web applications and APIs, with substantial hands-on experience using top industry tools like JMeter and LoadRunner. Skilled in creating workload models that mimic real-world user behavior and identifying performance issues to optimize application performance. I am passionate about leveraging my expertise in performance testing and engineering to drive significant improvements and achieve impactful outcomes.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer QA

Freshworks
BENGALURU
04.2024 - Current
  • Executed end-to-end load testing and established the baseline for the CRM application.
  • Led volume testing and performance benchmarking for the integration of Workato, validating its ability to handle large data sets and high transaction volumes across multiple connected applications.
  • Participated in the complete performance testing lifecycle, including gathering NFRs, designing test strategies, test planning, workload modeling, execution, reporting, and analysis.
  • Assisted the team in capacity planning for the application by conducting multiple rounds of testing under varying workloads.
  • Identified issues related to resource utilization in AWS and helped the team fix the issues by executing multiple rounds of load testing.
  • Conducted performance testing that identified and resolved bottlenecks, and improved system responsiveness by 40% to 60%.
  • Involved in functional testing using Selenium, with the Page Object Model.

Test Module Lead

Happiest Minds Technologies
BENGALURU
07.2023 - 04.2024
  • Executed stress tests to observe scalability issues within the system.
  • Conducted component and end-to-end load testing.
  • Expanded the deployment of the client-side testing tool, sitespeed.io, to run within the production environment. Integrated Grafana to collect error metrics, capture screenshots, and record videos of the latest test runs in production, and present them in the Grafana dashboard.
  • Worked on various AWS services, such as S3 for data storage, SNS for custom alerts, and Lambda functions.
  • Identified and analyzed issues related to slow database queries and Java out-of-memory errors using a heap dump.
  • Identified and addressed issues related to Auto Scaling Group (ASG) policies in AWS by fine-tuning them through multiple rounds of testing.

Sr. Test Engineer

Happiest Minds Technologies
BENGALURU
04.2021 - 06.2023
  • Developed and implemented a performance testing plan that identified and resolved key performance issues.
  • Monitoring the infrastructure closely throughout the load test executions.
  • Carried out testing procedures and prepared comprehensive reports for team presentations.
  • Worked closely with the development team to integrate performance testing into the software development life cycle, reducing post-release issues by 30%.

Test Engineer

Happiest Minds Technologies
BENGALURU
09.2019 - 04.2021
  • Developing scripts using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, and Site Speed.
  • Conducted a POC for the client-side testing tool, Sitespeed.io.
  • Conducting dry runs and test executions.
  • Providing comprehensive reports to stakeholders.
  • Automation of test data generation, and generating the test data for performance testing.

Education

PGDAC -

Center for Development of Advanced Computing
BENGALURU
08.2019

Electronic and communication Engineering -

Institute of technology and management
Gwalior
08.2018

Skills

  • JMeter, LoadRunner, K6
  • Sitespeedio
  • AWS EC2, ECSS, S3, SNS
  • Docker
  • New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Datadog
  • Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Endurance Testing, Smoke Testing
  • Eclipse Memory Analyzer, JProfiler
  • Fiddler, Postman
  • Basic shell scripting, Selenium, JavaScript, and Java
  • SQL, AWR Report
  • Windows, Ubuntu, MacOS
  • Jira, fresh release
  • GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, CI/CD
  • Agile methodology

Websites

Certification

Apache JMeter Pro, BlazeMeter University, 11/01/24

Awards

  • Go that extra mile champion Excellence at work in Q1 FY23
  • PES Superstar For exceptional contribution in FY22.
  • Chairman's team award Teamwork excellence for FY22.
  • Agile award for agility and adaptation to new technologies in Q4 FY22
  • Collaboration award for working with multiple teams in Q4 FY21.

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer QA

Freshworks
04.2024 - Current

Test Module Lead

Happiest Minds Technologies
07.2023 - 04.2024

Sr. Test Engineer

Happiest Minds Technologies
04.2021 - 06.2023

Test Engineer

Happiest Minds Technologies
09.2019 - 04.2021

PGDAC -

Center for Development of Advanced Computing

Electronic and communication Engineering -

Institute of technology and management

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