This resume summarizes Anant Sharma's career as a performance test analyst and team lead with over 5 years of experience. He has worked on performance testing projects for clients in various domains including investment banking, life sciences, and finance. Some of his responsibilities have included test planning, scripting, execution, and analysis using tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, and databases. He also has experience managing teams and interacting with clients.
1. Anant Sharma Mob: +91-9999044215
Email: anant.me.07@hotmail.com
Career Headlines:
• Performance Senior Test Analyst and Test
Lead
• Experience in Client interaction and
management.
• Experience in Delivery and Test
management.
• Experience in Team management and
Performance Testing and Engineering.
• Experience in SharePoint 2010 Migration
using Microsoft Metalogix tool.
• Associated with Asset Management,
Investment Banking, Finance Services and
Life Sciences Domain
• Worked on HP LoadRunner, HP
Performance Center, Controller, HP
Quality Center and JMeter.
• Worked on monitoring tools like CA Wily
Introscope®, Data Tester, Control M, SQL
Plus, Toad, Perfmon Counter, Ganglia
Analyzer, Putty and AWR reports.
Personal Data:
• DOB: 5th
December 1989
• Sex: Male
• Marital Status: Married
• Nationality : Indian
• Languages : English, German and Hindi
Traits:
Vital team Player, Adaptable, Enthusiasm
to work in varied environments, Social and
Ethical worker, Proactive.
Certifications & Awards:
• Certification in Project Management from
Harvard Business School.
• L1 Finance Certified Professional.
• ISTQB (International Software Testing
Qualifications Board) – Foundation Level.
• Microsoft Certified (70-480) -
Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript
and CSS3.
• Cognizant Certified Professional in L0 -
Performance Testing and Engineering.
• Cognizant Certified Professional in L0 -
Life Sciences Domain.
• Awarded Director's Award for bringing a
change in the way technology is driven.
• Awarded On-Spot Award for continuous
and extraordinary contribution to project.
• Awarded the best new employee in
Fidelity Worldwide Investment.
• Rewarded salary hike in just 4 months
after joining Fidelity Worldwide
Investment.
Career Objective
To build my career in a progressive organization that will provide me
exciting opportunities to learn more and utilize my skills. I want to
explore all the dimensions concerning project management and
performance engineering and work on the best scalable applications and
enhancing them further.
Career Summary
A result oriented professional with an overall experience of 5.4 years in
Performance Architecture Consulting and Engineering.
Currently associated with Fidelity Worldwide Investments, Gurgaon as
Senior Test Analyst.
Experience in performing Impact Analysis and assessment, Risk
management, Requirement analysis and Team management.
Experience in Software Performance Testing including requirement
gathering, project estimation, test plan designing, scripting, testing,
execution and performance analysis for Web Applications and Database
using HP LoadRunner, JMeter, SQL Plus and Toad.
Acting as an interface between business units, technology teams and
support teams.
Expert level understanding of ‘HP LoadRunner’ load testing tool.
Exceptional communication, collaboration & team building skills with
proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the
same in a productive manner.
Academics
M-Tech (Software
Engineering with
Project Management)
BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan 7.8 (CGPA)
B-Tech (Mechanical
Engineering)
AEC, Uttar Pradesh Technical
University, Agra, U.P.
66%
12th
(SSC) CBSE Board 80.0%
10th
(HSC) CBSE Board 84.2%
Technical Skill Set
2. • Awarded Associate of the Quarter for
extraordinary contribution and dedication
to the project for Barclays Bank during
first quarter of the year 2014.
• Awarded High Flyer of the month for
outstanding performance and exceptional
commitment towards project deliveries
for Barclays Bank.
• Awarded QE&A Titan award in recognition
for consistent high performance and
contribution towards Barclays Bank for the
year 2013 for Barclays Bank.
• Awarded A-Team award for outstanding
performance for the project in the year
2013 with Barclays Bank.
• Awarded ASP (Advanced Solution
Practice) OSCAR for Q4-2012 for
exemplary performance and contribution
towards the Life Sciences vertical and
Merck as a client.
• Got recognized by Cognizant testing team
and awarded with Spot Award for flawless
delivery.
Permanent Address -
E-1401,GPL Eden Heights, Sector 70,
Gurgaon, Haryana 122001.
Professional Experience Summary
Fidelity Worldwide Investments Duration: - December’14 to Till now
Project FODE Oracle 11g Database Performance Tuning and POC on Exadata
Client Fidelity Worldwide Investments
Period December 2014 to Till now
Description
FODE Technology Program serves as the golden repository for data management in Fidelity. It is on
Oracle 11g and provides data to many customers in the form of DOL and DAL's. It comprises of the
huge amount of data being loaded on 24 hour basis through scheduled Loaders with working in
parallel for data access by customers in the form of DOL and DAL's. Thus being so highly loaded by
data it was recommended to undergo Performance testing and tuning.
The performance testing for the database was required to test the impact of the DOL's and DAL's
when accessed while the loaders were in execution and to set the benchmark for further analysis.
The program was divided into two phases
• Testing the present 11g system and secondly perform the POC for Exadata and produce
report which can help in introducing Exadata into the system over 11g.
• The testing was idealized and centric to only database and no other component was
involved.
• Pure database testing is being performed using Oracle 2 tier protocol for scripting.
Role Test Analyst
Operating Systems Windows Xp/2000,7
Performance Testing Tools HP LoadRunner – Version 11, 11.5, 12, 12.5
HP Performance Center, Controller, JMeter.
Performance Monitoring
Tools
CA Wily Introscope® - Used for Heap Dump and
Hung Thread Analysis, Memory and CPU
utilization.
Perfmon Counter – Used to identify resource
bottleneck (CPU, IO, Memory or Network)
Ganglia Analyzer - Used for analyzing the LINUX
based application logs.
Putty - Used for UNIX.
AWR reports - To identify bottleneck in database
tier.
Test Management Tool HP Quality Center, JIRA 6.2.7
Testing Methodologies Performance Testing and Engineering
Business Domain Investment Banking
SharePoint 2010 Migration
Tool
Microsoft Metalogix Tool
Database SQL 10g, Oracle 11g, Oracle 12g EXADATA
Other Tools SQL Plus, Toad, Control M, Data Tester, SVN,
Putty, Scheduler, Fiddler, OS watcher
3. Responsibilities
• To perform Team, Test and Risk management.
• To understand the NFR’s and perform project assessment and estimation.
• To finalize the scope for performance testing and coordinate with other teams.
• To support all Performance related issues, prioritize them and come up with effective and
immediate resolution.
• Involved in LR Scripting, Execution and analysis.
• Involve in Impact and Result analysis.
Tools HP Load Runner Vugen, Controller, SQL Plus, Control M, AWR, Putty and Data Tester.
Protocol Used Oracle 2 Tier
Work Location Gurgaon
Fidelity Worldwide Investments Duration: - June’15 to August'15
Project JIRA 6.2.7 Performance Testing
Client Fidelity Worldwide Investments
Period June 2015 to August 2015
Description
JIRA is a proprietary issue tracking product. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project
management functions. Our mission was to test the maximum load it can sustain under the
provided organizational environment and to recommend the necessary changes required to
performance enhancement.
Role Individual Contributor
Responsibilities
• To perform Team, Test and Risk management.
• To understand the NFR’s and perform project assessment and estimation.
• To finalize the scope for performance testing and coordinate with stake holders.
• To support all Performance related issues, prioritize them and come up with effective and
immediate resolution.
• Involved in LR Scripting, Execution and analysis.
Tools HP Load Runner Vugen, Controller, Fiddler, Wily Introscope and Ganglia.
Protocol Used Web/HTTP
Work Location Gurgaon
4. Cognizant Technology Solutions Duration: - October’11 to November'14
Project Customer Liquidity Management (CLM) Q4 Release
Client Barclays Bank
Period May 2014 to October 2014
Description
The Customer Liquidity Management CLMQ4 Release Programme was initiated to modify the
access rights of existing CLM user role profiles to cater the business and regulatory requirements
and for this four new CLM user role profiles were created.
The performance testing for the application was required to test the impact of the changes in user
profile on the application and to test
• Penetration test fixes.
• Performance improvements of BI66Q call to improve the response time of large
arrangement marked as future fix during CLM Remediation project.
• The fixes for the Multi Server Cache Issue marked as future fix during CLM Remediation
project.
Role Team Lead
Responsibilities
• To perform Team, Test and Risk management.
• To understand the NFR’s and perform project assessment and estimation.
• To finalize the scope for performance testing and coordinate with stake holders.
• To support all Performance related issues, prioritize them and come up with effective and
immediate resolution.
• Involved in LR Scripting, Execution and analysis.
• Involve in Impact and Result analysis.
Tools
HP Load Runner Vugen, HP Performance Centre, HP Quality Centre, Hummingbird, Wily Introscope,
Ganglia and Controller.
Protocol Used Web/HTTP
Work Location Cognizant Pune
Project IDT-Replacement
Client Barclays Bank
Period January 2014 to April 2014
Description Project IDT –Replacement was incepted to deliver a replacement workflow process for Barclays
Business. Where a Telephony User receives a request to complete a specific request from a
customer that, due to constraints of the Telephony Channel / current proposition, they are unable
to complete, the request is given to another business area to fulfill. The way these servicing
instructions are transferred is referred to as ‘handoff’ and the instructions will be completed by
5. means of a ‘Workflow’ process. The overall concept being adopted for the IDT-R (IDT Replacement)
Project is that Telephony Users will be provided with CGS screens.
Role Team Lead
Responsibilities
• To understand the NFR’s and perform project assessment and estimation.
• To finalize the scope for performance testing and coordinate with stake holders.
• To support all Performance related issues, prioritize them and come up with effective and
immediate resolution.
• Involved in LR Scripting, Execution and analysis.
• Involve in Impact and Result analysis.
Tools HP Load Runner Vugen, HP Performance Centre, HP Quality Centre, Wily Introscope and Ganglia
Protocol Used Web/HTTP
Work Location Cognizant Pune
Project PPG
Client Barclays Bank
Period November 2013 to December 2013
Description
The Barclays acquired ING Direct UK, forming Barclays Direct. Under the acquisition, Barclays
acquired Residential Mortgage book, deposits, which currently equates to millions of customers.
Following the acquisition, a migration Programme was established to migrate the customers and
associated accounts from the systems provided. For this, mainframe jobs were designed that
performed the task of migrating the data. Performance testing for this project was required to test
the performance of the batch jobs and provide recommendations that lead to performance
improvement.
Role Team Lead
Responsibilities
• To understand the NFR’s and perform project assessment and estimation.
• To finalize the scope for performance testing and coordinate with stake holders.
• To create result assessments, discuss with the stakeholders and support all Performance
related issues, prioritize them and come up with effective and immediate resolution.
Work Location Cognizant Pune
Project Customer Liquidity Management – CLM Remediation
Client Barclays Bank
Period July 2013 to November 2013
Description The Customer Liquidity Management Remediation program was initiated because CLM had
undergone infrastructure upgrade only from UI perspective which was covered under Remediation
Release. CLM UI Infrastructure was changed from UNIX to LINUX, WAS 6 to WAS 8.5 and Webseal
5.1 to SAU 6.1. The main objective of Performance Testing for this phase was to assess the impact
6. of new UI Infrastructure on the performance of application when compared against CLM Drop 2
release and also to test the improvements in some of the functionalities marked as future fix during
CLM Drop 2 release.
Role Team Lead
Responsibilities
• To understand the NFR’s and perform project assessment and estimation.
• To finalize the scope for performance testing and coordinate with stake holders.
• To support all Performance related issues, prioritize them and come up with effective and
immediate resolution.
• Involved in LR Scripting, Execution and analysis.
• Involve in Impact and Result analysis.
Tools
HP Load Runner Vugen, HP Performance Centre, HP Quality Centre, Wily Introscope, Mainframe
and Ganglia.
Protocol Used Web/HTTP
Work Location Cognizant Pune
Project Customer Liquidity Management – CLM Drop 2 - T1D2
Client Barclays Bank
Period March 2013 to June 2013
Description
The Customer Liquidity Management Drop 2 program was initiated to enhance and expand the
product proposition within the Cash Management area. The objectives of the release were
• To enhance the functionality of the CLM system to support true EOD sweeping and inter-
company lending (ICL).
• To build interfaces with the respective DDA systems in each in-scope country, to enable
the CLM sweeping and ICL functionality to be applied to accounts in those countries.
The objective of performance testing for CLM Drop 2 was to assess the performance impact in Drop
2 due to additional batch load due to additional DDA systems, additional user load due to additional
online functionalities and code drop for Drop 2.
Role Test Analyst
Responsibilities
• Involved in LR Scripting, Execution and analysis.
• Executing mainframe jobs, MQ clearing and CICS bounce activity.
• Preparing result reports.
• Involved in client interactions.
Tools
HP Load Runner Vugen, HP Performance Centre, HP Quality Centre, Wily Introscope, Mainframe
and Ganglia.
7. Protocol Used Web/HTTP
Work Location Cognizant Pune
Project Customer Liquidity Management – CLM Drop 1 – T1D1
Client Barclays Bank
Period October 2012 to February 2013
Description
CLM application as a part of Drop 1 release was to accommodate the overall online functionalities
and to test Intraday Sweeping and cross country transfer. The performance testing for CLM T1D1
aimed at identifying the performance for the existing critical functionalities, to bench mark the
results for future releases and to identify if the performance criterion for the critical part of the
Intraday Sweep batch was met.
Role Test Analyst
Responsibilities
• Involved in LR Scripting, Execution and analysis.
• Involved in data preparation activity.
• Involved in executing batch jobs.
• Involved in preparing test result reports.
Tools
HP Load Runner Vugen, HP Performance Centre, HP Quality Centre, Wily Introscope, Mainframe
and Ganglia.
Protocol Used Web/HTTP
Work Location Cognizant Pune
Project SharePoint 2010 Migration
Client Merck
Period February 2012 to September 2012
Description
The objective of the project was to migrate the content of SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. The
whole project dealt with approximately 1TB of total data with 19000 sites that were successfully
migrated from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 using Microsoft Metalogix tool. Performance
testing for this project was included to test the performance of the tool that migrates the data from
source to destination.
Role Migration and Test Analyst
Responsibilities • Involved in Data Migration.
• Involved in issue resolution after data migration.
• Involved in result analysis.
• Involved in job execution.
8. • Involved in data preparation activity.
• Involved in preparing test result reports.
Tools Microsoft Metalogix Tool, HP Quality Centre, Wily Introscope, Mainframe and Ganglia.
Work Location Cognizant Pune
Declaration: I hereby declare the above-furnished information is true to the best of my knowledge.
Anant Sharma