Venkata Pidikiti

Focused and goal-oriented leader offering over 16 years of experience including 11+ years of experience in North America in driving Performance Engineering activities, development of applications and leading/managing various technical projects

Rich experience in spearheading performance engineering and testing end-to-end activities
Proficient with usage and configuration of Performance test tools LoadRunner and JMeter
Excellent in performing stakeholder management role, ensuring collaborative work across global time zones
Hands on experience in setting up end to end monitoring for various types of application environments using instrumentation, performance & Infrastructure monitoring tools (LoadRunner, Diagnostics, BSM, RUM, SiteScope and Dynatrace) including virtualization tools (ITKO LISA)
Capable of Independently delivering projects complimented by solid documentation, technical writing and organizing skills
Expertise in managing and supporting enterprise level Application Performance Monitoring operations
Proficient in Non-Functional Testing activities like Operability Testing, Security Testing, Failover, Negative, Monitoring, Fallback and Fall forward testing.
Involved in Pre-Sales activities for Performance engineering like Proof of Concepts, Budget Estimations and Presentations.
Developed in-house monitoring tool for BMO called as “BAM” with very low development and maintenance cost
Onsite-offshore co-ordination with Team members.
Capable of estimating project size and resource requirements for individual performance engineering projects
Develop project plan, track project milestones & delivery, communication with all stakeholders including senior management
Determining work priorities in accordance with project planning, time sensitivity, changing work demands, and policies and practices
Working closely with cross-functional teams to improve process and systems
Making reasoned decisions after assessing customer's circumstances
Identifying and investigating customer problems, issues, and circumstances and provides Recommendations, alternatives, risks, and benefits
Good knowledge in Banking, Financial and Retail domains
Experience in SQL and PL/SQL

• Involved in end-to-end Performance testing methodology for all projects assigned
• Involved in requirements gathering, functional critical scenarios and Preparation of the Test Strategy and Test Plan
• Discussion with solution architect and Business Analysts to identify the Performance Test scenarios and volumes for all the applications that are In scope for Performance testing
• Creating the Vuser scripts using Load Runner tool with protocols identified for the given application and services
• Designing the Workload Model (WLM) and Execution using Performance Center
• Execute Early component testing and end to end performance tests and analyze results
• Provide performance tuning recommendations for improvements
• Identify performance issues during Triage meetings
• Instrumenting dynatrace for the applications and providing reports after executions
• Reviewing system logs and prepare test reports for Performance test executions