Non-Functional Test Engineer at Tesco Bank (2024-01 – Present)
- Defined, implemented, and maintained a comprehensive Non-Functional Test Strategy covering performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience testing for Tesco Bank's digital banking platforms.
- Collaborated with Product Owners, Architects, and Infrastructure & Security teams to define and validate Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for microservice-based and API-driven applications.
- Conducted performance, stress, endurance, and failover testing to validate application behavior under peak load and system recovery scenarios.
- Leveraged monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch to capture system metrics, analyze performance bottlenecks, and perform root cause analysis in collaboration with development teams.
- Integrated NFT suites within CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to enable automated non-functional validation as part of continuous delivery.
- Delivered high-level consolidated reports with performance insights, risks, and recommendations for stakeholders and senior management.
- Supported disaster recovery (DR) and resilience testing to validate system behavior during failover, network degradation, and data recovery scenarios.
- Worked closely with DevOps and Cloud teams to validate infrastructure scalability and resource utilization across AWS environments.
- Improved test efficiency by automating key NFT scripts within the CI/CD pipeline, reducing manual execution time by 30%.
- Identified critical performance bottlenecks in microservice APIs, leading to a 25% improvement in response times post-optimization.
Performance Test Engineer at Prolific Consulting Services (2020-06 – Present)
- Worked on various clients including CRUK, Public Health England (PHE), BRC, and universities (Tribal SITS) like Westminster, Aberdeen, De Montfort, Hertfordshire, Tesco Bank Sydney etc.
Performance Test Engineer - Tribal SITS eVision at University of Hertfordshire (2023-01 – 2024-07)
We were planning to run a performance test on the Clearing process, Online Registration, Module registration and Results on their TRIBAL SITS application hosted in the cloud environment to understand the upper limits of the infrastructure and the application under load. The journeys would be simulated by logging in as a student to eVision portal using username and password. All the user journeys are scripted using JMeter to simulate the load.
- Attended calls and meetings to gather performance requirements.
- Identified the key business process to be used for Performance Testing.
- Developed KBT's for the identified key business processes.
- Developed test scripts using VuGen web (HTTP/HTML) protocol adhering to best practices for scripting.
- Created test scenarios for multiple load tests using different scenario scheduling techniques in Performance center.
- Conducted Shakeout tests and health checks to verify the test scripts.
- Conducted multiple rounds of various performance tests as per test plan and monitored the tests in Load Runner Cloud.
- Prepared test result reports along with detailed analysis of the results and published them to the team.
- Prepared test completion report and published it to stakeholders.
Performance Test Engineer - Tribal SITS eVision at Canterbury Christ Church University (2022-09 – 2023-02)
SITS e: Vision Clearing project to test performance of the clearing process.
- Contacted the Project team for the test scenarios walkthrough.
- Prepared scripts using Web HTTP/HTML protocol in VuGen.
- Handled various unique and dynamic data in scripts for executions.
- Created the scenarios and conducted the execution in LoadRunner cloud as per the requirement.
- Monitored the execution and provided the detailed analysis from the result.
Performance Test Engineer - ODMS-Phase 2, 3 & 4 at Pacific Gas and Electric (2022-11 – 2023-04)
In this project, the team needed to test the performance of the "PG&E Outages" site where all the records are stored as. Doc and. Pdf formats.
- Contacted the Project team for the test Scenarios walkthrough.
- Prepared scripts using HTTP/HTML protocol in VuGen.
- Handled various unique and dynamic data in scripts for executions.
- Created the scenarios and conducted the execution in Performance Centre and in controller as per the requirement.
- Monitored the execution and provided the detailed analysis from the result.
Performance Test Engineer - PG&E at CCNB - Pacific Gas and Electric (2020-06 – 2022-11)
PG&E is an investor-owned utility that provides natural gas and electricity to most of the northern two-thirds of California. This project included recording Silk Performer test cases and converting them into LoadRunner scripts, to compare the performance of the Silk Performer assets, as well as the site where all the records are present, for customers to schedule appointments.
- Attended briefing sessions with the client to understand requirements.
- Worked with the functional team to gather the proper information and dependencies of the data that used in the tests.
- Prepare dB queries as per the requirement using Web Services protocol.
- Implemented logic to handle multiple environments using header files.
- Converted the Silk Performer tool test cases into Load Runner scripts using Web HTTP/HTML protocol.
- Provided inputs to Test Lead in preparation of Risk Mitigation Plan and Test estimations.
- Designed and executed test cases.
- Performed Functional, Regression, System, and Integration Testing
