Siva Kumar

13+ Years of experienced Performance Engineer and Release management expert with technically sophisticated and business-savvy IT management professional with a pioneering career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with “hands-on” experience in Dev, QA/QE, infra Engineering Experienced in handling multiple performance projects/clients and teams, also proven individual contributor in handling different projects with Performance Testing Life Cycle practices. Proficient in gathering Nonfunctional requirements and collecting performance engagement dependencies to design Performance Test Plan Expert in all the phases of Design/Create customized robust Performance framework to automate load test executions at a single click using Jenkins and present test results through customized dashboards Expertise in designing and executing multi users tests & scenarios using Jmeter, Load Runner, and Performance center for Load, Endurance, Stress, Failover, Resiliency and other tests Experienced in configuring & executing cloud-based performance test using AWS, Storm Runner, OctoPerf and BlazeMeter Experienced in setting up performance environment and deploy application in AWS Experienced in Kubernetes K8, Dockers, containers, pod configurations and tuning Expertise in using APM tools like Appdynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, ELK, OpenSearch, Datadog Controller/Performance center Experienced in debugging & analysing data/stats using JVM, GC, JVisualVM, heap dump & thread dump Experienced in analyzing DB metrics, slow queries and provide required tuning recommendations Proficient in creating customized Grafana/APM dashboards to showcase test results to stakeholders Expert in Analyzing the test results based on SLA’s as defined and prepare presentable Test report with observations & recommendations Proficient in defect management tools like VSTS, Jira and worked on confluence for maintaining test reports & project documentation Worked in executing projects on Agile/Sprint based methodology Expert in using Jmeter, Load Runner, HP Mobile Center & NeoLoad Experience in multi protocols Web(http/html), Web Services/API, True Client, Mobile protocols Experienced in evaluating/tuning API and REST services performance Experience in client side performance tuning using and provide recommendations

Senior QA engineer at Backbase (2023-12 – Present)

Team Lead at High Radius (2020-12 – 2023-07)

Senior QA engineer at EMIDS (2019-05 – 2020-10)

Senior Test engineer at Testing Xperts (2018-02 – 2019-05)

Performance Test consultant at Deloitte (Contractor-Magna) (2017-04 – 2018-02)

Senior Test engineer at Cigniti Technologies (2014-04 – 2017-03)

Performance Tester at UST Global (Contractor- Infi-Care Payroll) (2013-02 – 2013-11)

B.Tech in Computers – JNTU-Anantapur