Saichandu Mandalapu
Hyderabad
Summary
Forward thinking solution-oriented professional with 7 plus years of experience, working effectively in dynamic environment and oversee all aspects of SDLC. Proficient in utilizing a wide variety of tools to provide high-quality performance applications as per business needs. Possess strong testing, monitoring, and communication skills to deliver client/business specific programs.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Engineer (COE - Performance and SRE)
HCL TECH
11.2022 - Current
- Currently working with SAP SuccessFactors and previously supported NBC Universal projects.
- Experienced in web applications and PeopleSoft applications across multiple projects.
- Gathering non-functional business requirements and identifying business-critical scenarios from production historical data.
- Designing performance test strategies and defining timelines for the performance life cycle.
- Developing and maintaining performance test scripts and frameworks using JMeter.
- Hands-on experience with Docker for setting up containerized local development environments to support performance testing.
- Executing performance tests in CI/CD pipelines using GitHub.
- Utilizing Splunk to create dashboards for performance monitoring and collecting historical data for workload modeling.
- Analyzing scalability, throughput, response times, and other load testing metrics against test servers.
- Conducting JMeter executions in non-GUI mode for performance testing.
- Monitoring application performance using New Relic, tracking CPU, memory utilization, and throughput per production standards.
- Performing API testing using Postman.
- Working on native mobile application performance testing.
- Communicating project progress and timelines with customers.
- Conducting POCs for various project implementations.
Senior Engineer (Performance Engineering)
Mindtree Limited
06.2018 - 10.2022
- Designed performance test frameworks to identify key bottlenecks impacting business; executed tests in every sprint.
- Gathered non-functional requirements and collaborated with the team to develop comprehensive performance test strategies.
- Analyzed user stories for each sprint to identify scenarios with potential business impact.
- Developed workload models based on business data to simulate realistic usage patterns.
- Designed and optimized performance test scripts for maximum efficiency and accuracy.
- Evaluated scalability, throughput, response times, and other load metrics against test servers.
- Conducted smoke, load, endurance, stress, and fail-over testing to ensure system reliability.
- Measured system performance against established baselines and identified deviations.
- Possess strong understanding of infrastructure and networking to support performance testing.
- Performed API performance testing and client-side performance evaluations.
- Communicated project progress with customers, gathered feedback, and addressed concerns proactively.
- Contributed ideas in team meetings and provided updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
- Collaborated with developers to enhance supportability and identify performance bottlenecks affecting business outcomes.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology
ChennaiSkills
- JMeter
- Neoload
- Java
- New Relic
- Splunk
- MS SQL
- AppDynamics
- Load Runner
Awards
- Spot on Award, 04/01/22, For taking initiative and completing all the tasks with impeccable accuracy and speed for Cloud migration Project
- Spot on Award, 11/01/19, Saichandu has done a great amount of contribution to agile and holiday readiness projects in performance testing. His Tenacity technical skills and dedication made all the difference
- Spot on Award, 08/01/19, Saichandu has performed exceptionally well for Academy Sports and Outdoors project from script designing and execution phase and analyzing failures after every execution
Languages
English
Upper Intermediate
B2
Telugu
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Lead Engineer (COE - Performance and SRE)
HCL TECH
11.2022 - Current
Senior Engineer (Performance Engineering)
Mindtree Limited
06.2018 - 10.2022
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology