About

Saket Agarwal is a seasoned Performance Test Lead with 9 years of experience in Performance Testing and Engineering using HP Load Runner and Jmeter. He has worked with different public clouds like AWS and its services like EC2, Cloudwatch, MSK, RDS, EKS, and has a deep understanding and hands-on experience on Kubernetes. He also has experience working with Couchbase database, which is a NoSQL document-oriented database, and Apache Kafka, which is an open-source stream-processing software. Saket has designed Test Scenarios, Enhanced and Executed Scripts, and conducted baseline, Load, Stress, Stability, autoscaling, disaster recovery, blue-green tests. He has good working experience on correlation, parameterization, checkpoints, debugging, and analyzing results. He is well-versed in monitoring server-side resources using various APMs like Dynatrace, Appdynamics, jvisualvm, Grafana, and analyzing the bottlenecks using Dynatrace and reporting/raising a defect and tracking it till fixed. Saket has experience in JVM tuning for monolithic as well as for containerized applications over public cloud and database tuning using AWR reports. He has been involved in Requirements Gathering and Analysis, Test Plan, and Test Strategy Activities. Currently, he is serving his notice period at Atos as a Performance Test Lead where he is responsible for understanding the assigned project clearly and interacting with clients/stakeholders for gathering non-functional requirements. He works closely with the development team and business analysts, and software engineers to define and execute tests throughout the performance lifecycle. In the past, he has worked with Amdocs as a Performance Test Engineer, where he successfully planned, managed, and executed big transformation (Monolithic application to Micro Services in open shift platform). He has extensive experience in Microservices performance testing using Open Shift, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, Jenkins, AppDynamics, Postman, Couchbase & CI/CD. He has also worked with Infosys as a Senior Associate Consultant, leading a team of 3 members from offshore, participating in requirement gathering, Test Planning, Scripting, designing, Execution, Reporting, Defect Tracking, and more. Saket holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Madhav Institute of Technology and Science. He has a strong tech stack including test, AWS, Azure, GCP, Web, Microservices, CI/CD, product manager, Kubernetes, Senior Software Engineer,