Prashanth Kannan Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tn, In

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

➢ Measure, profile, optimize performance in a multi tiered, distributed & hybrid environment.➢ Providing input to architectural & design decisions to improve performance & ensure resilience, scalability, maintainability & overall operational stability of the application.➢ Develop automated performance frameworks to measure & validate performance.➢ Establish performance baselines, guidelines & non functional requirements for the applications.➢ Work with different teams to clearly articulate & drive resolution on performance analysis, tuning & preventing degradation of the customer experience.➢ Designs & executes load, stress, endurance tests, analyze & converts results into actionable improvements in the application.➢ Perform root cause of performance related problems, through tuning, recommending configuration changes, or refactoring application code to resolve poor performance.➢ Share know-how of latest performance trends in industry, work with teams to ensure performance best practices are implemented in development life cycle.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

This project involved performance testing of migration of members from legacy system to Facets health care management system by a major health care provider at Iowa. Currently working on migration of 100+ on-premise application to Amazon Web Service cloud platform.My responsibilities include➢ Performance testing of backend batch jobs and its adherence to NFR➢ Suggest cloud migration performance test approach➢ Gathers business metrics and assembles workload and transaction information for performance testing➢ Designs, creates, and maintains the performance test scripts and scenarios that meet the objectives identified in the performance test plan ➢ Suggest best practices and performance tuning recommendations to project stake holders

Greater Philadelphia Area

As a Performance Engineer was involved in performance testing of Learning Management System for a leading education portal. I was also involved in coming up with performance testing practice as it was being taken up for the first time.My responsibilities include➢ Capturing NFR stakeholders and defining Acceptance Criteria➢ Participate in reviews with Architects/Developers to identify probable performance bottle neck areas and provide mitigation➢ Performance test script creation, execution and analysis of REST web services using JMeter➢ Performance monitoring using New Relic, Splunk➢ Present results to project stake holders and senior leadership➢ Incorporate performance test CI/CD pipeline➢ Establish a COE for helping to mentor and develop other members of the performance teams

Greater Seattle Area

From the fashion retailer client location at US I worked as the test lead and performance tested the customer order management system and customer related backend services hosted in Amazon Web Service Cloud platform.My responsibilities include➢ Non-functional requirement gathering, Workload modeling, Project estimation➢ Define test strategy and test planning➢ Test Scripting, Scenario Creation and Test Execution & Analysis➢ Communicate the performance test results to project stake holders and leadership.➢ Recommend performance tuning and co-ordinate with stake holders on its implementation in production➢ Building production monitoring dashboards and be involved in active monitoring for any performance degradation➢ Where ever possible work along with developers to initiate early performance testing and incorporate performance engineering concepts➢ Setting up performance test automation pipeline using Rundeck for testing IBM Sterling Order Management System➢ Overseeing the quality of deliverable from offshore and nearshore location.

Monterrey Area, Mexico

From Nearshore & Offshore location I was working for a major US fashion retailer client and performance tested the Master Data Management System and packslip application.My responsibilities include➢ Gathering NFR & work load volume determination➢ Performance test estimation➢ Test plan & strategy preparation➢ Batch job and Data Warehouse Testing➢ Test Scripting, Scenario Creation and Test Execution & Analysis➢ Bottleneck Analysis & Tuning discussions with Developers➢ Taking care of onsite<->near shore<->offshore hand off activities

Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

From offshore location I was working for a major US fashion retailer client and performance tested the backend systems like employee scheduling application and newly developed customer preference platform.My responsibilities include➢ Creating performance test scripts➢ Test execution➢ Analysis and Result Reporting➢ Defect reporting and tracking

Bengaluru Area, India

I was involved in functional testing of a telecom signaling system for a major US telecom provider.My responsibilities include➢ Co-ordination and performed the role of member/tester for design of test plans and test design specification and execution.➢ Preparation of regression test cases.➢ Problem reporting and tracking