- Sachin Kumar has over 9.5 years of experience in performance testing using tools like HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center, and Borland Silk Performer.
- He has expertise in service virtualization, automation, and performance testing with CA Technologies' CA LISA and has led performance engineering teams.
- His experience includes all phases of the software development life cycle like analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and support.
1. Sachin Kumar
Mail to: sachin627r@gmail.com
Mobile: 9910116394, 8800487966 IP- 70, IIT Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
To work in a creative and challenging environment where I could constantly learn and apply my
knowledge to successfully deliver quality results.
SUMMARY:
• Experienced team leader with a performance engineering background having lead teams of
performance engineers in various projects.
• 3.5 Years’ experience in Service Virtualization, Automation and Performance Testing with
expertise in CA Technologies’ CA LISA 7.5
• Hand-On experience of 9.5 years in performing and monitoring Performance Testing Using Tools
HP Performance Center 11.5, HP Load Runner 9.5 and Borland Silk Performer 7.3, PerfMon, CA
Wily Introscope, HTTP/HTML, Web Services etc
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, which includes Analysis, Design,
Development, Testing, Implementation and Support.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
• Total Experience: 9.5 Years
• Current Employer: Accenture Services Ltd, Gurgaon (5 years)
• Previous Employer: QA InfoTech Pvt Ltd., Noida. (4.5 Years)
EXPERTISE:
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, which includes Analysis, Design,
Development, Testing, Implementation and Support.
• Working as Team lead for 3.5 Years’ in Service Virtualization, Automation and Performance
Testing with expertise in CA Technologies’ iTKO LISA SOA Test Suite.
• Developed Intelligent Virtual Services (Stub) using CA Lisa Virtualize.
• Involved in Creation of Plan and Approach / Strategy document, High & Low Level design
documents, Test Data Management sheet for Service Virtualization.
• Worked as Team leader for 4 Years for Performance Engineering project.
• Hand-On experience in performing Performance Testing Using Tools HP Load Runner 9.5, HP
Performance Center 11.5 and Borland Silk Performer 7.3 using protocols HTTP/HTML, Web
Services etc
• Development of SAP scripts for SAPWEB and SAPGUI protocols for different SAP modules
including SD.
• Scripted business functions using Load Runner for online performance testing with added usage
of C/C++ language in VUGen.
• Set up performance test monitors on various servers, and network devices
• Executed Load Runner scenarios for multiple users across performance test infrastructure,
facilitating rectification and re-testing of defects when found
• Analyses performance test results, write up performance test reports outlining performance
bottlenecks and recommending a solution
• Participated in failover testing by executing failover test scripts, analyzed test results and write up
a failover testing report
• Experience in Functional Testing, GUI testing, Compatibility Testing.
• Expertise in software management tools such as JIRA and BUGZILLA for Defect tracking and
reporting.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently and also perform as part of
a team.
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2. Sachin Kumar
Mail to: sachin627r@gmail.com
Mobile: 9910116394, 8800487966 IP- 70, IIT Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
Onsite Professional Exposure
• Experience working at Client Site (Cengage Learning, Course Technology Boston MA, USA) for 9
months as a QA Performance engineer
• Worked as Team Lead for CIMB Malaysia for 7 months for Performance Testing support.
Project: iTKO LISA for E-Business (July’ 2014 to Present)
Client: Major Banking Unit, USA
Position: Application Lead
Tool/Protocol Used: CA LISA 7.5/JMS, HTTPS, MQ.
Responsibilities:
• Creation and maintenance of Virtual Services (JMS, HTTPS and MQ based) to provide support
for Performance Testing
• Implementation of UI framework with the help of Oracle database to make the virtual service DB
based.
• Developed Virtual Service Models by Recording and by using Req-Resp pairs in LISA.
• Creation of Automated Regression Suite’s for testing various backend systems.
• Provide prompt support to the performance testing teams who are using consuming our virtual
services with Load runner scripts
• Involved in Test data management for virtual services and automation framework.
Test Team Size: 6
MAJOR PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN
Project: Peach for Apple (March’ 2014 to July’ 2014)
Client: Apple, USA
Position: Application Lead
Responsibilities:
• Team formation at offshore and onshore with knowledge sharing related to SAP performance and
Apple process.
• Understanding requirement specifications, design documents and driving the risk assessment.
• Collection of the non-functional requirements for application performance testing.
• Involved in Performance Design, Preparation, Execution, Reporting and Analysis.
• Development of SAP scripts for SAPWEB and SAPGUI protocols for SD SAP module.
• Worked extensively on Order to Cash business flows with good knowledge on Sales Process,
Delivery, PGI, IDocs and Billing.
• Preparation of analysis reports comprising observations and recommendations using different
SAP T-codes including ST12, ST05 and SM51 etc. and monitoring tools like Wily Introscope.
• Involved in root-cause analysis for the bottlenecks identified and provided SQL tuning
suggestions and recommendations.
Test Team Size: 4
Project: iTKO LISA for RUSA (Dec’ 2012 to March 2014)
Client: Major Banking Unit, USA
Position: Application Lead
Tool/Protocol Used: CA LISA 6.0.10/JMS, HTTPS, Java.
Responsibilities:
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3. Sachin Kumar
Mail to: sachin627r@gmail.com
Mobile: 9910116394, 8800487966 IP- 70, IIT Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
• Creation and maintenance of Virtual Services (JMS, HTTPS and Java Based) to provide support
for Performance Testing
• Developed Virtual Service Models by Recording and by using Req-Resp pairs in LISA.
• Creation of Automated Regression Suite’s for testing various backend systems.
• Provide prompt support to the performance testing teams who are using consuming our virtual
services.
• Involved in Test data management for virtual services and automation framework.
• Using SOAP UI to test the web services and creating request/response pairs which will be used
for our automated test cases and virtual services
• Using JMETER to perform performance/load testing of our virtual services and create reports per
number of users and throughput of the transactions/sec
Test Team Size: 12
Project: 1Platform Thailand Implementation (August 2011-December 2011)
Client: Major Banking Unit, Malaysia/Thailand
Position: Performance testing lead
Tool/Protocol Used: Load Runner 9.52, HP Performance Center/HTTP-HTML, Web Services.
Project Objective: The goal of the performance load test is to perform a simulation of the various
functional areas based on 5 years projected volume in 3 aspects, Customer/Account Base, Transaction
volumes, and Historical records.
Responsibilities:
• Manage and Lead the Malaysian Team with 3 SSE recourses
• Design and develop Load runner test scripts
• Develop Test Data
• Execution of the end to end Performance Load Test Lifecycle
• Assist in resolving performance bottleneck in the system
• Identify change and technology business integration issues
• Understand client's alternate process mapping system, and supervise its use on engagement
• Apply best practices and benchmarking knowledge
• Explain "as-is" and "to-be" process models and implications to client executives
• To work closely with the application team to understand the develop to-be business processes
• To identify change and technology business integration gaps or issues
• To understand and identify client's alternate process mapping system, and supervise its use on
client engagement
• To Apply best practices and benchmarking knowledge
• To explain "as-is" and "to-be" process models and implications to client executives
Test Team Size: 5
Project: SAM (September 2010-April 2012)
Client: Major Transport Unit, USA
Position: Performance testing lead
Tool/Protocol Used: Load Runner 9.52, HP Performance Center/SAP, HTTP-HTML, Web Services.
Project Objective: Amtrak's Strategic Asset Management (SAM) implementation will provide integrated
management decision making information including financial and operations management information for
activities related to managing railway assets for optimal train operations. The scope of the SAM
performance test is limited to measuring and reporting the performance of identified parameters of the
SAP SD system within the project
Responsibilities:
• Creation of the test approach document which provides an overview to the test
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4. Sachin Kumar
Mail to: sachin627r@gmail.com
Mobile: 9910116394, 8800487966 IP- 70, IIT Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
• Socialization of the test approach document with the overall SAM team, Amtrak IT, Interface
Partners, and appropriate software and hardware vendors
• Creation of a detailed test plan describing the exact steps to be taken for the test
• Execution and analysis of the performance test (Using SAPGUI and Web Services Scripts in HP
Performance Center 10)
• Creation of a summary report and recommendations document.
Test Team Size: 3
Project: Cengage-NOW (April’ 2006 to Jan’2008)
Client: Cengage Learning, USA
Position: Manual QA Engineer and Performance Test Engineer
Protocol Used: HTTP/HTML Web Application
Cengage NOW is a web-based online application developed primarily with the aim of providing and managing Online
Classroom activities. The application allows instructors to manage, assess, assign, track and report Students’
progress.
Responsibilities:
• Planned area to be automated for performance testing
• Created Script Using VU Generator
• Created Real Time Scenarios using Load Runner Controller
• Executing scripts with real time scenario
• Analyzing results
• Sending analysis results to client
• Updating scripts as per Staged Environment
Tool Used: Load Runner Suite 9.0
Test Team Size: 15 (13 Manual + 2 Performance Testing)
Project: SAM (Feb’2008 to Aug’2008(onsite), Aug’2008 to Jan’2009(Offshore),
(Feb’2009 to May’2009(onsite)
Client: Cengage Course Technology, USA
Position: Associate Performance Test Engineer
Protocol Used: HTTP/HTML Web Application
Environment: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Internet Explorer
Test Team Size: 20 (Manual Testing), 2 (Performance Testing)
SAM (Skill Assessment Manager) has helped hundreds of thousands of educators and students assess
and improve their skills in the Microsoft Office 2003 suite and essential computer concepts. SAM 2003
version 3.1 is the most powerful and user-friendly solution yet, with many new features.
Responsibilities:
• Scripted business functions using Load Runner for online performance testing
• Parameterized, and correlated performance test scripts
• Designed and built test scenarios using Load Runner
• Set up performance test monitors on various servers, and network devices
• Executed Load Runner scenarios for multiple users across performance test infrastructure,
facilitating rectification and re-testing of defects when found
• Analyses performance test results, write up performance test reports outlining performance
bottlenecks and recommending a solution
• Detected several defects, reported and tracked them using Borland’s StarTeam.
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5. Sachin Kumar
Mail to: sachin627r@gmail.com
Mobile: 9910116394, 8800487966 IP- 70, IIT Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
Project: SSO (Single Sign On) (2008-2009 Winter Release, 2009 Summer Release,
2010 Summer Release)
Client: Thomson Higher Education, USA
Protocol Used: HTTP/HTML Web Application
Position: Performance Test Lead
Product Description
Single Sign-On (SSO) is a core foundation service that manages and facilitates content access across
multiple Cengage Learning applications. The Front Door is the portal environment that enables a single
access point for products. The SSO/Front Door Phase II project focuses primarily on completing the
implementation of Faculty SSO and Front Door functionality based on sales and instructor feedback from
a January beta release. In addition, this project will deliver improved integration with CengageNOW and
minor Student Front Door enhancements. The project completion date is driven by the business need for
a 2008 summer school market release of Faculty SSO/Front Door functionality; therefore the scope of this
project targets the highest priority items first. These priorities have been set by the business unit
stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
• Load Testing Using Mercury Load Runner Suite
• Responsible in developing Test scripts using VUGen.
• Responsible in creation and execution of various scenarios using Controller with different set of
Virtual Users as per the requirement of Release
• Analyses performance test results, write up performance test reports outlining performance
bottlenecks and recommending a solution
Project: Web Reporter (May 2009 – July 2009)
Client: South-Western Cengage Learning
Protocol Used: HTTP/HTML Web-Based Application, Web-Service Protocol.
Position: Performance Test Lead
Product Description:
Thomson is seeking to extend the web-based interface developed for their existing project Micro type 4.1
to SBP. The extended application will have in addition to the Instructor view the following two other views:
• Student View
• On-line Instructor Utility
In addition to the above web application interface, the web reporter web-service interface will also be
extended to SBP for seamlessly integration with a central web reporter database. Using the Web
Reporter Web Service interface a student can remotely upload the completed reports. The student can
also download the class or student preferences set by his/her instructor, from the central database to the
remote student machine, irrespective of the keyboarding application being used by them. An instructor
can use the Web Reporter Web Service interface to download the student reports and view them on a
web browser as against viewing it from within the keyboarding application. Instructor can also upload the
preferences for a student from any keyboarding application to the central database.
Responsibilities:
• Scripted business functions using Load Runner for online performance testing. Use Web Service
Based scripts to update Student Reports to the Applications.
• Parameterized, and correlated performance test scripts
• Designed and built test scenarios using Load Runner
• Set up performance test monitors on various servers, and network devices
• Executed Load Runner scenarios for multiple users across performance test infrastructure,
facilitating rectification and re-testing of defects when found
• Analyses performance test results, write up performance test reports outlining performance
bottlenecks and recommending a solution
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6. Sachin Kumar
Mail to: sachin627r@gmail.com
Mobile: 9910116394, 8800487966 IP- 70, IIT Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
Project: Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 (Working in Overlap)
Client: Adobe
Position: Associate QA Lead (Czech Language Lead)
Adobe Photoshop Elements is the consumer version of the Adobe Photoshop raster image editing
product, sold at a fraction (roughly 1/6th) of the cost of the professional product. It contains most of the
features of the professional version but with fewer and simpler options. Photoshop Elements allows users
to create, edit, organize and share images, all from the same product. Some of its offered features are:-
Cookie cutter tool drop in frames, backgrounds, and artwork, an automatic red eye removal, Quick Fix
mode, and the Photo Organizer. Its internationalized version caters 12 locales.
Responsibilities:
• Analyzing the Product Requirement Specification documents.
• Reviewing, validating and prioritizing test cases for Port. Braz. Language which is first time being
introduced with PSE 8.0.
• Creating Weekly Reports comprising the test execution status and status of defects.
• Tracking and managing test case execution on various hardware/software configurations.
• Managing the language team and validating reported issues.
• Configuring and managing machines for all localized languages.
• Performed Acceptance, functional, compatibility and regression Testing.
• Detected several defects, reported and tracked them using WATSON.
Academics
B.Tech in Computer Science (2000 – 2004),
Aggregate: 67%
MGM COET, Noida
Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow.
Senior School Certificate Examination (1999),
Aggregate: 73%
CBSE
Secondary School Examination (1997),
Aggregate: 72%
CBSE
Achievements & Extracurricular Activities:
• Received multiple Achiever’s Awards in Contribution towards Delivery Excellence and Quality
Deliverables as Team Lead of Citigroup's CA LISA Team in Accenture.
• Received a monetary award for Drives for Value Added Results in CA LISA Team Accenture.
• Active Member of Accenture Cricket team for last 1 year.
• Awarded certificate of appreciation for presentation/ seminar in the organization.
• Paper presentation at Qualloquium (Annual Testing Seminar at QA InfoTech)
• Received appreciation mails from client on various occasions.
• Awarded recognition for handling multiple tasks/ projects with quality results.
• Handled independent project with team of 4, in less than 2 years of experience.
• Coordinated a complete release as QA Lead in less than 3 years of experience.
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7. Sachin Kumar
Mail to: sachin627r@gmail.com
Mobile: 9910116394, 8800487966 IP- 70, IIT Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
• Was awarded certificates for social activities by ‘Helpage India’ & ‘Help Care Society’, ‘CRY’.
Personal Details:
Date of Birth : May 09th
, 1981
Father’s Name : Late Dr. D. P. Singh
Marital Status : Married
Hobbies : Listening music, traveling.
Strengths : Punctuality, Determination, Hard- working, Optimism, Can adapt to
any environment easily, Capable of handling Multiple projects/tasks at the same time,
Leadership Skills, Strong Interpersonal relationship.
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