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Senior Technical Specialist at Zensar Technologies

About

Cloud and DevOps Performance Engineer with 15+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and over 14 years specializing in Performance Testing, Engineering, and Cloud-native optimization. I design and implement distributed load testing frameworks, integrate performance validation into CI/CD pipelines, and optimize large-scale applications for speed, scalability, and reliability on AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. My work focuses on improving observability and application performance using tools like JMeter, BlazeMeter, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Grafana — ensuring real-time visibility and continuous optimization across hybrid environments. Key Expertise: Cloud Performance Testing | Distributed Load Testing | CI/CD Automation | Observability Platforms | APM | Kubernetes | AWS | Performance Tuning Always open to remote collaboration, performance engineering leadership, and DevOps automation initiatives.

Location

Pune

Work experience

Senior Technical Specialist at Zensar Technologies, Sep 2025 - Present · 8 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Working as Senior Technical Specialist in Zensar Technologies Limited

Lead QA Engineer at Willware Technologies, Jul 2025 - Sep 2025 · 3 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Worked as Lead QA Engineer in Performance Testing using Perl Script and Apache JMeter for API Load Testing of web application

Senior Software Development Engineer at Hitachi Vantara, Sep 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Contributed to the Pentaho Project at Hitachi Vantara, focusing on robust performance validation and data optimization strategies for enterprise data solutions. Collaborated effectively with globally distributed teams across different geographic locations, ensuring seamless communication and project delivery in a complex, multi-time zone environment. Key responsibilities included: Performance Testing: Designed and executed comprehensive performance tests using Apache JMeter, simulating high load scenarios to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks within the Pentaho ecosystem. Test Data Management: Expertly prepared large-scale, representative test data utilizing the TPC-H Benchmark tool to rigorously validate database scalability and performance under volume-intensive conditions. Data Storage Optimization: Spearheaded initiatives involving Pentaho Data Storage Optimizer to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness of both unstructured and structured test data sources. This included orchestrating data transfers and migrations between various storage environments, such as NFS to SMB, SMB to NFS, and NFS to AWS cloud, ensuring data integrity and accessibility across platforms. Scripting & Automation: Leveraged Shell Scripting for test automation, environment setup, and streamlining data movement processes, significantly improving efficiency and repeatability of testing cycles. Performance Analysis & Reporting: Generated detailed performance reports, analyzed key metrics, and provided actionable insights to development and operations teams, leading to significant performance improvements and system stability. This role provided extensive experience in optimizing data workflows and ensuring peak performance for critical data integration and analytics solutions in a demanding, enterprise-level setting.

Technical Test Lead at Infosys, May 2018 - Sep 2023 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Pune Area, India, Technical Test Lead in Performance Testing

Senior QA Engineer at Mobiliya, Nov 2017 - Apr 2018 · 6 mos, Pune Area, India, Performance Test Engineer

Education

DevOps, DevOps, DevOps Techlabs

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