About

Nikhil Garg is an ISTQB certified Tester and Certified Scrum Master with over 10 years of relevant experience in Automation, Manual, Performance, and Big Data Testing. He currently serves as the Lead SDET Performance Engineering at Razorpay. Nikhil is an expert in designing and developing highly complex test scenarios using performance test automation tools such as LoadRunner and JMeter. He is also skilled in setting up test environments deploying the latest software and product builds and validating them. These test environments can be Virtual Machines or Bare Metal Servers or PODS provided by customers on their data centers or on cloud data centers such as GCP and AWS. He has participated in capacity planning/Hardware sizing exercises in staging/Performance environments and Production environments. Nikhil has executed full-fledged Performance tests, Integration tests, and longevity/endurance tests independently. He has also participated in the design and development of skeleton/stub components for successful integration tests. Nikhil has monitored ongoing tests using licensed monitoring tools like Newrelic, Dynatrace, and other open-source tools. Nikhil's expertise extends to using in-house diagnostic tools such as SQL Debug Analyzer, Log Summarizer, System Auditor, Oracle Block Monitor, and more. He mentors team members on Performance test activities as needed and analyzes Performance test runs, reports defects, and shares findings. Nikhil reviews the Test report created by Team members and provides review comments. Nikhil's educational background includes a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology from S.V.C.E and High School from St. Joseph Convent Ratlam. His Tech Stack includes SDET, test, AWS, SQL, Integration, New Relic, Big Data, GCP, QA, Infra, Azure, and Mobile. Nikhil's past experiences include serving as Senior Lead Performance Test at FIS and Performance Test Lead at FIS. He possesses good understanding and troubleshooting skills on the administrative functionalities of application servers such as Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss, Tomcat, and more.