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Karthik Subash  Ravindran

Karthik Subash Ravindran

Haywards Heath,West Sussex

Summary

  • 16 years of professional experience in IT possessing 13+ years experience in performance engineering across domains such as Banking ,Insurance, Retail, E-Learning and Publishing ,Entertainment & Consulting .
  • 2+ years experience in System Administration using windows and Linux servers .
  • Worked for major clients such as Lloyds Banking Group, American Express, Boston Consulting Group, Walt Disney, Pearson, Cambridge Assessments, Open university , Target, Royal Bank of Scotland, Citigroup.
  • Employers whom I worked with are Wipro, Cognizant, Tata Consultancy Services, Polaris Software Lab.
  • Good knowledge and working experience in Open Text Load runner, Performance Center ,LRE ,JMeter, Blazemeter ,Neo load, ALM,Burpsuite
  • Hands on working experience with various monitoring tools/utility on multi-tier application/components like Dynatrace ,App Dynamics, Data dog, Nagios, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch , HP BAC , Site Scope , Wily Introscope PerfMon, Automatic Workload Repository (AWR reports)
  • Technology worked : GCP, AWS, REST API , Web Services , IaC using Hashicorp Terraform, Apache Maven, IIS, CICD using Jenkins , GitHub , Jira

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior Technical Lead

Wipro Limited
London
12.2022 - Current
  • Client - Lloyds Banking Group
  • Role - Performance Test Engineer
  • Responsibilities :
  • Performance Engineer Responsible for End-to-End delivery of the Performance testing .
  • Root cause analysis for the performance issues and recommending possible solutions for fix
  • Responsible for the performance test communications, Test Plan and Results sharing & walkthrough
  • Identifying Security vulnerabilities and analysed the Pen Test Results for Vulnerabilities
  • Analysed performance issues with Dynatrace and identifying potential root causes for the performance issues found during the test.

Senior Associate

Cognizant Worldwide Limited
Burgess Hill, West Sussex
02.2016 - 12.2022

Client - American Express

Role - Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for Leading the projects with the 3 members team for the end-to-end performance testing activities.
  • Responsible for performance test planning, scripting & executing the tests through CICD framework.
  • Responsible for the project communications, Test Plan and Results walkthrough
  • Responsible for Test results preparation and walkthrough with the stakeholders.
  • Additional responsibilities are engaging accessibility and security testing activities with the team and act as a single point of contact for all Non functional activities for the project.

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai ,India
10.2012 - 10.2015

Performance Test Engineer responsible for delivering Performance Tests for Salesforce Applications Integrated with applications such as Maximo and Service Now.

Gathered Key Non Functional Requirements and Validating it through various production metrics

Coaching and Mentoring the Junior Team members with the Performance testing activities.


Associate Consultant

Polaris Software Lab
Chennai,India
06.2010 - 05.2012

Project Engineer responsible for Assisting Performance Test Leads for multiple projects.

Education

Masters of Computer Applications -

Anna University
Chennai, India
04.2004 - 04.2007

Skills

  • Non-Functional Testing & Performance Engineering
  • Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
  • Chaos Testing
  • Google Cloud Architect
  • Resiliency Testing,
  • Penetration Testing,
  • Cloud Performance Engineering
  • Kubernetes
  • Accessibility Testing
  • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Windows and Linux Server Administration
  • SRE Support for TOIL reductions

Certification

  • Google certified Professional Cloud Architect (PCA)
  • Harness Inc Certified Chaos Engineering Developer
  • Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner
  • Vskill Certified JMeter Tester

References

References available upon request.

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Timeline

Senior Technical Lead

Wipro Limited
12.2022 - Current

Senior Associate

Cognizant Worldwide Limited
02.2016 - 12.2022

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2012 - 10.2015

Associate Consultant

Polaris Software Lab
06.2010 - 05.2012

Masters of Computer Applications -

Anna University
04.2004 - 04.2007
Karthik Subash Ravindran